“If you have a Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, you are already being judged — or will be soon. Companies with names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitter Grader are in the process of scoring millions, eventually billions, of people on their level of influence — or in the lingo, rating “influencers.” Yet the companies are not simply looking at the number of followers or friends you’ve amassed. Rather, they are beginning to measure influence in more nuanced ways, and posting their judgments — in the form of a score — online.”
It seems that social network users are getting “influence scores” that are “accessible to the people you date, the people you work for.”
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Weird. To even look at Klout, I have to sign in via Twitter and give Klout access to my direct messages? Please.
What an obnoxious century this is turning out to be.
I will never stop laughing.
This is disturbingly like the publicly viewable Personality Scores in Gary Shteyngart’s SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, set in the not-too-distant-future.
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