An article in the latest issue of Time magazine talks about how to deal with online bad reputations about you.  Now anybody who has Internet access can post comments on anything; stores, movies, books, and  people. Since information on the internet can be from anywhere, most people know it can be wrong, especially when it is just somebody’s comment. However, it is not easy to be skeptical all the time, at least for me. I don’t believe everything, but I get some influence from what I find on the Internet. Karl Idsvoog, a journalism professor at Kent State University in Ohio,  got insluting comments on Rate My Professor, and fought back. If I read a negative comment on Rate My Professor, I don’t believe everything, but I still get a negative impression of the teacher.     

  What if somebody talks bad about you on the internet? It is kind of scary to think how quickly your image can be spoiled. It is also going to be hard to track down those people who hurt you. It is so strange to me how online world makes offline world more complicated.  There is certainly real people who put something on the Internet, but what they put can be totally unreal.

  For example, I have an account in Japanese SNS, Mixi, which is just like Myspace. Once I found one of my classmates from highschool and sent a message to her. However, she didn’t answer to me because she was pretending to be a different person there. She didn’t want me to disturb her fiction world. Internet is changing how people interact to get along with each other.