1552 E-Protection

It's funny how as soon as a problem develops someone out there is ready to invent a product to solve it. That's the great entrepreneurial spirit of America.
I've written before about bad Facebook pictures of you that other people post. Because you can be photographed by anyone at anytime, and because humans have a tendency to find themselves in odd contortions, very strange pictures of you can be created. And once created, posted very easily to the internet.
And since you have no way of knowing who, where, and when, there could even now be goofy and/or compromising pictures of you floating around for countless people's amusement. And no one ever had to ask your permission.
Granted, most of these images are innocently posted, but not all. As I said before, ancient cultures believed pictures stole your soul. Facebook steals your reputation.
Well someone saw the problem and saw something even better, a way to make money off it. I was at a news site the other day and they had an embedded ad for a place called Reputation.com.
Reputation.com purports to clean up your reputation on the web. I didn't click the link, since I don't click unknown links, but one would assume the company's promise is to crawl the byways of the internet highway and ferret out all the trash talkers and reputation pillagers out there. Something you yourself may be able to do with a little conscientious google-bating.
But sometimes it's better to pay a professional.
I only worry that someone else will take the next logical step—Protection.com. An online protection racket.
"Yo Pauly, we gotcher reputation clean, now for a small monthly fee we can keep it dat way.
"Or we can break yer computer's legs..."
America, ya gotta love it.