Comments on: “The Dark Side” : The Wisdom of Rating Your Neighbors http://tametheweb.com/2008/05/29/the-dark-side-the-wisdom-of-rating-your-neighbors/ Libraries, Technology and People Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:48:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lori Reed http://tametheweb.com/2008/05/29/the-dark-side-the-wisdom-of-rating-your-neighbors/#comment-4510 Lori Reed Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:44:41 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/?p=2946#comment-4510 Couldn't help but do an ego search. Someone actually rated us (my family). Luckily it is a good rating. But still...I don't know. It's bad enough to have "slam books" on the world wide web for kids now but do we really want to know what people think of us? I'm all for free speech and press but at what point does it end. Imagine going through life knowing that any good or bad moment you have could make it to YouTube for the world to see. Imagine your worst moment in high school on YouTube. I wonder what kind of long term effect this will have on kids. Couldn’t help but do an ego search. Someone actually rated us (my family). Luckily it is a good rating. But still…I don’t know. It’s bad enough to have “slam books” on the world wide web for kids now but do we really want to know what people think of us?

I’m all for free speech and press but at what point does it end. Imagine going through life knowing that any good or bad moment you have could make it to YouTube for the world to see. Imagine your worst moment in high school on YouTube. I wonder what kind of long term effect this will have on kids.

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