For many the popular choice for communicating with one another is via the internet, whether it is in the privacy of our home or on our personal cell phone. This way everyone that is everywhere can always stay connected. Geographical location no longer determines one's accessibility to the rest of the world. Because the chances that someone can access the internet, even for free, is a given. In conjunction, free information, whether true or not, has gone rampant. Practically anyone can publicize anything they want over the internet, which is exactly what people do.
In recent years, airing out our everyday dirty laundry has gone from being a social phenomenon to being just another fact of life that we've sensitized to. Today's ease in broadcasting capability gives privacy a whole other meaning. We've literally adjusted to a lifestyle in which privacy realistically does not carry too much weight. Although, it is desired to establish a good persona, if someone were to develop a bad persona it wouldn't be the end of the world and easily turned around and rendered.
Once a good persona is established it is a good idea to sustain and maintain this reputation. The intended audience listening will naturally fall into this relationship with you--connecting and building a stable foundation from the very beginning. In the fast paced world we've become accustomed to, we've also become a society that lives and craves in the "now". Therefore, any damage done regarding persona's does not have to become the end of the world.
I've never really looked at an online reputation like this before and I think it's a great point. People's perspectives can be changed so easily now because of the way technology and the internet works. Like I stated before in one of my write ups, people can portray a completely different persona then who they really are online, keeping up a good reputation is the difficult part.
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