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I am locked into Klout. I tried to get out.
I changed my passwords on linked accounts.
I tried to find appropriate drop down menus for deleting my account.
It all failed when I received a message about my account one week after I thought that I had left Klout.
I took a moment to reflect and decided to read my profile.
Something caught my attention.
Here is their first description of my activity on-line:
Observer: You don't share very much, but you follow the social web more than you let on.
This had me laughing, because it's true!
I had read an article on Mashable, that LinkedIn had suggested I read, based on my professional profile. I found the article interesting, so I wanted to find out if Klout would be useful for some of my clients.
When I logged in using my Facebook account, I was stuck, suddenly being assessed by a program that is possibly against everything I believe in, except for one thing - I think it is funny - really funny, laugh out loud, or sit on the couch using my laptop, privately smiling funny, but yes, fun - or funny - it's like playing a game with a good playmate/ opponent. The only catch - my privacy, and maybe yours, but the truth is that I don't believe that these algorithms can know me or you. There is no depth, just surface and that is what this blog has become about. Klout can't know Bob, though I am quite sure somehow a version of it will try (maybe not now, but certainly it is coming) and even though Uncle Herbie is alive, they cannot know his influence on hundreds, if not thousands of LGBTQ people, nor one very adoring niece (me). It can never measure moments in time where one person changes your life forever by doing or saying something and in that moment you know a deep change has happened and from then on everyone you engage with will be touched by that connection. You can't Klout that.
xo,
Bob's Daughter
I changed my passwords on linked accounts.
I tried to find appropriate drop down menus for deleting my account.
It all failed when I received a message about my account one week after I thought that I had left Klout.
I took a moment to reflect and decided to read my profile.
Something caught my attention.
Here is their first description of my activity on-line:
Observer: You don't share very much, but you follow the social web more than you let on.
This had me laughing, because it's true!
I had read an article on Mashable, that LinkedIn had suggested I read, based on my professional profile. I found the article interesting, so I wanted to find out if Klout would be useful for some of my clients.
When I logged in using my Facebook account, I was stuck, suddenly being assessed by a program that is possibly against everything I believe in, except for one thing - I think it is funny - really funny, laugh out loud, or sit on the couch using my laptop, privately smiling funny, but yes, fun - or funny - it's like playing a game with a good playmate/ opponent. The only catch - my privacy, and maybe yours, but the truth is that I don't believe that these algorithms can know me or you. There is no depth, just surface and that is what this blog has become about. Klout can't know Bob, though I am quite sure somehow a version of it will try (maybe not now, but certainly it is coming) and even though Uncle Herbie is alive, they cannot know his influence on hundreds, if not thousands of LGBTQ people, nor one very adoring niece (me). It can never measure moments in time where one person changes your life forever by doing or saying something and in that moment you know a deep change has happened and from then on everyone you engage with will be touched by that connection. You can't Klout that.
xo,
Bob's Daughter
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