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Kim Komando Today

Online reputation: What to do when someone tries to destroy yours

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if a complete stranger, or even worse someone you trust, decides to ruin your life? How easy would it be for them to destroy your career, credibility and social life? In this episode, Kim looks at the maliciousness of destroying someone online. Kim talks to a former cyberbully as well as Shannon Wilkinson, Founder and CEO of Reputation Communications, to find solutions for this problem.

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0:00.0

I went on every person that we had mutual friends of and I posted nasty rumors about Lindsay.

0:10.2

And it's something that I seriously regret every day, something that I definitely have to live with every day.

0:17.9

What if a complete stranger, or worse, someone you know, someone you trust, decides

0:22.9

to ruin your life? How easy would it be for them to destroy your online career? Take away all

0:29.5

your credibility and your social life? I looked over and I realized these two men were whispering

0:34.8

and kind of staring my way. And as I walked past, I heard one of them say,

0:39.5

is that hurt? And they were kind of like laughing. That was really the first time that I had seen

0:46.6

someone talk about me like right in front of my face. Like my stomach dropped. I just was

0:51.9

assuming everyone was talking about me wherever I went. That's Lizzie

0:56.0

and Ashley. Lizzie is a former cyber bully who's agreed to share her story with us. Ashley is from

1:01.8

the sci-fi show. The internet ruined my life. And thank you both so much for being on the podcast

1:07.2

with us. I'm America's Digital Pro Kim Commando. What would would you do if, from out of the blue, someone started badmouthing you,

1:15.1

lying about you, slandering you, stealing your content, basically ruining your life online?

1:21.1

Now, this is not the same as cyberbullying.

1:24.1

I'm talking about a malicious intent to totally destroy and ruin your life.

1:29.6

Malicious posting goes a long way, way beyond cyberbullying.

1:33.8

The instigator actually attacks the victim with words and pictures with only one goal in mind to destroy them.

1:42.1

What I did was horrible.

1:44.5

I singled someone else out online, and I can't believe I'm admitting it right now.

1:51.2

I understand how much words can impact someone, and I've been on those sides of it, and it's not pretty either way.

1:58.2

What I did, yes, it can be.

2:00.3

It is called cyberbullying. And you know what?

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