Web 2.0 has reached a new and disgusting low. As well we see that venture capitalists are more than willing to help fund trips through manure piles since it seems that Unvarnished just received a fresh round of funding of half a million bucks.
Well just imagine waking up one day to find your name splattered all over the web because of reviews of you as a person have been left on an account in your name that you never opened and that you can’t remove. We’re not talking about how nice of a person you might be either. No, this site is meant for people to unload all the reasons why you suck and are nothing but a dirtbag.
Oh and to add insult onto injury – you can’t open an account for yourself to try and head off any possible manure being flung on you by people hiding behind the mask of anonymous. In other words you suddenly have a target pasted to your forehead and ass which anyone can take shots at – real or imaginary.
All this cowardly wonderfulness is of course couched in the normal Web 2.0 and Social Media warm and fuzzy ideology as told to Jennifer Valentino-DeVries by one of the site’s founders
Peter Kazanjy, one of the site’s co-founders, said the aim of the site is to improve on the way professional reputation works in the real world.
“In the offline world, you can make reputation claims about me and I would never know that,” he said. On Unvarnished, people are able to see what is being said about them and can respond or recruit other coworkers to provide reviews on their behalf.
Some-one please explain to me just how the fuck this kind of gutter sniping will in any way improve how professional reputation works?
