Crap... now that I know I have a Klout score...

[LuckyTheDog]

... I can't help myself. I check it almost daily. Today, it's 59.

Why do I torture myself like this?

[Chan790]

1. That's not bad considering how much internet content...

is navel-gazing and masturbatory illusions that other people care about the rote minutia of our lives. (Not to say that your generated content is either of those things.)

Mine's a 10...and my dream job is working in social media for an NPO.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Do I want to know what that is? If you think I will be sorry, I'll just be moseying along.

[Chan790]

3. It's a numerical measure of the influence of one's social media content.

For most people, it's largely meaningless unless you're a narcissist or famous or work in social-media generating content.

I've applied to two jobs in communications for NPOs in the last week though that made me list my Klout score. (It's a 10 and 10 means you're generally ignored even by your friends.)

Lucky's puts him higher than most news people except Stephen Colbert and only about 25 points behind B. Obama.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, that's a harsh thing to know about oneself. I guess people would have to have

a pretty thick skin for getting measured like that.

[MilesColtrane]

5. So no web page, no twittering, no Facebook...

What kind of Klout score does that give me?

[Chan790]

6. Ironically...

you'd probably still pull a 10. I really hope the next DU rollout has Facebook likes embedded. That'd be super-huge like 10x better than any DU3 feature presented thus far.

[MilesColtrane]

7. I once talked a friend into paying my bar tab, so...

10 sounds about right on the social-influence scale.