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    Lightbulb Find out your Influence in social networks

    First of all i must say this is not a scam or site promotion or anything. When i surfing the internet i found this amazing website that shows your influence on social networks with numbers (0-99) .Later i found that they check the klout score when recruit people for marketing base jobs in companies. So i thought it will be useful for people who do not have any idea about what is klout score ..

    you can find out your klout score from this website.

    http://www.klout.com
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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    "shows influence"?

    Sorry, but .... hogwash.

    This is, IMHO, a transparent and naked attempt by a bunch of marketeers to gain lots of personal data they can then make money from by piggy-backing actual social media sites that at least have something genuine to offer in return for you giving them all the details of your personal life which, by the terms of their own privacy policy, they will then share with "partners", and the explicit intent is to "market" stuff to you. And they don't even have the nous to come up with a good reason for people to sign up, so they invent some notional to rating of "influence".

    Oh, please.

    What are this bunch of bleeps offering? To "know your influence"?

    I already know my influence. Naff-all. And I'm certainly not egotistical or self-deluded enough, or desperate enough for some pseudo-validation, to need a website to tell me.

    As far as I'm concerned, anyone naive enough to sign up for this either has no respect for their own privacy, or is a grade-A idiot.

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Worrying thing is people care about this guff.

    Far as I can see this 'influence' is some kind of weird fantasy-reality hybrid where people create completely fake versions of themselves to whore online in a popularity contest. First in the race to the bottom wins.


    Me?
    Not on Twitter.
    Havn't used Linkedin in months apart from trying to stop them sending me job advert spam.
    Only use Facebook to chat to about 6 people. Mainly my sister who is too lazy to get a proper email address.

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    "shows influence"?

    Sorry, but .... hogwash.

    This is, IMHO, a transparent and naked attempt by a bunch of marketeers to gain lots of personal data they can then make money from by piggy-backing actual social media sites that at least have something genuine to offer in return for you giving them all the details of your personal life which, by the terms of their own privacy policy, they will then share with "partners", and the explicit intent is to "market" stuff to you. And they don't even have the nous to come up with a good reason for people to sign up, so they invent some notional to rating of "influence".

    Oh, please.

    What are this bunch of bleeps offering? To "know your influence"?

    I already know my influence. Naff-all. And I'm certainly not egotistical or self-deluded enough, or desperate enough for some pseudo-validation, to need a website to tell me.

    As far as I'm concerned, anyone naive enough to sign up for this either has no respect for their own privacy, or is a grade-A idiot.

    Google Safe browsing - Safe
    Website Antivirus - Safe
    Norton Safeweb - Safe


    WOT (Web of Trust) - Excellent
    Wikipedia Trust Links 11
    G-Rated / Child Safety

    But i believe these certificates are enough to trust a web site right may be i am idiot. but i do not think there are idiots work on Google Wikipedia and Norton
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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Quote Originally Posted by Nipun View Post
    Google Safe browsing - Safe
    Website Antivirus - Safe
    Norton Safeweb - Safe


    WOT (Web of Trust) - Excellent
    Wikipedia Trust Links 11
    G-Rated / Child Safety

    But i believe these certificates are enough to trust a web site right may be i am idiot. but i do not think there are idiots work on Google Wikipedia and Norton
    All of which entirely miss the point.

    I'm not saying it's full of viruses, malware or setting you up for phishing attacks, which is what those services warn against.

    What this site is doing is seeking to get all the personal information they can, like your name, address, phone number, etc .... and location data. They then transfer that to "partners" so they can sell you stuff. Oh, and for anyone in the EU, by using this site you give up any and all protection over your personal data and how it's used because you explicitly give permission for it to be, first, moved outside the EU, and second, used for marketing purposes.

    None of this is illegal. It's not even hidden, for anyone that bothers to read their privacy policy before signing up, because they declare quite openly what they will do with your personal information.

    Much of the above also applies to Facebook, Twitter, and yes, Google. They are all designed to suck in as many people as possible, and to get as much personal information as possible, so they can sell marketing services, mainly advertising.

    Why? Because the Holy Grail of advertising is fine detail about as many people as possible. They can then finely target campaigns against exactly the target group their client wants, and as a result, what they can charge for that information goes up, because the hit rate of the campaign goes up.

    And that's what this site is all about .... getting personal information, because it's valuable. It's also what, for instance, supermarket reward cards are largely about.

    So all those site ratings would show this site as "safe", because it isn't a scam site, or full of viruses or malware. It's just a site that is a data vampire seeking to get as much data as possible by aggregating data from major social media sites, by linking together data harvested from profiles at all sorts of sites, and then nakedly using it for profit.

    At least if you you sign up for a store reward card you get discounts, or with Google you get the benefit of powerful software tools, or Facebook you get the social aspects of membership.

    But what do you get by handing your data to this site? Some silly rating of "influence".

    I stand by comment, and hell will freeze over before I'd ever use a site like this, firstly because I don't give a flying hoot what they reckon my "influence" might be, and second, I actively don't want what they're peddling, which is to grab as much information about me as they can get and sell it to people who only want to bombard me with adverts I don't want.

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Klout is reasonably well known - though sadly there are HR droids who would use it as part of a hiring process. Its more or less rubbish though.

    http://mashable.com/category/klout/
    http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_klout/


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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Quote Originally Posted by Nipun View Post
    Google Safe browsing - Safe
    Website Antivirus - Safe
    Norton Safeweb - Safe


    But i believe these certificates are enough to trust a web site right may be i am idiot. but i do not think there are idiots work on Google Wikipedia and Norton
    nipun.... if you think that allowing everyone with a big corporate name to know everything about you is safe... then you're missing a point

    I'd not trust Norton with my web browsing safety anyway.. but that's a side debate.


    I shall expand on what is safe for one and not for another.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html I don't think this is safe to let people read who believe everything in the context to which it's been manipulated.

    this chap too... perhaps not always "safe" in the contexts that some might require https://twitter.com/georgegalloway

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Can't believe this hasn't been posted as yet


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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Bit like being stupid enough to sign up to Facebook this......but the bullocks has to start somewhere eh!!

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    No Facebook, No Linked In, No Twitter, No Myspace, nothing other than this forum and a few others

    I will get a score of 0 and so I don't need to sign up!
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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Was with Facebook best day of my life was deleting that account. Only with Twitter now.
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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
    No Facebook, No Linked In, No Twitter, No Myspace, nothing other than this forum and a few others

    I will get a score of 0 and so I don't need to sign up!
    Facebook is good for signing up to multiple sites ( if you have nothing on it / set on private as I do ) and peeking / finding at people if you so choose ( Facebook Fame is very addictive you know )

    Twitter is good for specific news or updates from sites, forums ,organizations your affiliated wth.

    that's about it for me.. I like Twittter a lot more than Facebook - but FB has its small uses I suppose . The celeb whore in me likes to occasionally try to get response , and in that regard I succeeded twice by getting a thank you , and block for giving advice
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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    I have a score of 34, i've no idea what this means

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    Re: Find out your Influence in social networks

    Same as Jay for me......I like to go out and talk to people, and as I'm incredibly famous already, I really don't need anymore

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