“Klout, The Standard of Influence”, in other words “put your ego to work”
When I joined Facebook, I don’t know, 4 years ago? Very soon after its creation actually, I was a little bit down because most of my friends , who reside mostly in Mexico and in the US, were not really keen on moving away from My Space at that time so my number of friends in FB was very low. And then, comparing those numbers with my friend’s friends, well those were just insane numbers – reaching 500 or even 1000 friends. That amount of “friends” gave someone an automatic status of “popular” or “liked” in the FB world. I was sad.
Later, 4 years later hahaha, I joined Twitter. Not only is it hard to keep up with all the status updates, but also to stay away of looking at the damn tab to show me how many followers I have, not good I tell ya. What is funny is that similar to FB, when I look at the number of followers someone has, well it’s just depressing. Seems like a 1000 is the standard for most, but reaching 10K, really? I am blue.
And then, if I did not sound masochist enough, I heard of Klout. That’s right. That application that is supposed to tell me ‘how much of an influence I am’. Nice, that’s all I was waiting for; another tool to tell me how little I am in the web. Another tool to contribute my obsession to boost my network channels ‘just to keep up’ with the revolution of new tools. But I am human and I am loaded with ego, so excuse me but I’ll go and create my account with Klout now.
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Megan (Best of Fates) says
Man, I’m too scared to check out my Klout score. Because I’m sure I won’t understand it and then be embarrassingly low on the scale!
Afrodita says
I know. I was just avoiding this app but, is so hard when ppl in twitter is all they talk about and I have cero input. 🙂
Afrodita says
Btw, my score is low. That’s why I did not share it LOL
mom2kiddos says
I haven’t actually gone into Klout yet and I don’t think I have the time to be bothered much with it. I think GFC, FB and Twitter is already enough to keep me on my bloggin toes. But, I might have to go look see what it’s all about one day. Thanks for the reminder.
Afrodita says
I know. I opened the account, but is sleeping somewhere in the web. Too scare to look at my low score LOL
THE SARCASM GODDESS says
Klout is ridiculous! It’s actually quite comical to see what Klout determines you are influential about. I rebel against it and give people +K in whatever they want! What do you want klout in? I’ll give it to you! 🙂
Afrodita says
TSG: You are so funny. I give you a K+ for it. 🙂
See what I did there?
Alexis says
The latest google update brought my page rank from a utterly shameful “0” to a slightly sad “2” and even that small validation had me bragging for a week. Or at least I would have bragged if any of my real-world friends knew what page rank meant.
I think I’m going to steer clear of Klout because anything I find there will undoubtedly undermine the small victory of no longer having a “0” pagerank 😛
Afrodita says
I hear you there Alexis. I see the statistics part of the app, but seriously, for the regular-small person like me, doesn’t make sense to see how little or much I do outside of my blog. Yes, it is nice to show numbers on an app, but seriously, it all comes down to how many of those truly “follow” us, “like” us, and spare a comment to our work.
I, saw the relationship – thanks to @mytimeasamom who shared a piece on the subject – with business’ and value. Good piece though.
LoloLyons says
Yeah. I’m scared of my Klout score too. Might be like my Kredit score.