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schmittel
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Tattle Life

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Had never heard of the site Tattle Life until I saw a piece about it on Sky News last night. It's basically a discussion forum where people go to fawn over/gossip/bitch about 'influencers". The site describes itself as:
Tattle Life is a commentary website on public business social media accounts. We allow commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain.
So no doubt there is a plenty of robust "critiques" on a site like this, which largely what the Sky News report was about - the site is affecting the mental health of some of the influencers. There are also privacy concerns as users have identified where some influencers live etc.

Tattle Life are not terribly concerned about the problem:
In a statement, Tattle Life said, "Tattle life has a zero-tolerance policy towards content that is hateful, abusive, threatening and we take the privacy of social media influencers far more seriously than they do themselves in many cases.

"We're far more stringent with our rules and moderation than any of the big social media companies on our moderated forum.

"We allow commentary, critique and praise of people that choose to monetize their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain.
They hit the nail on the head I think. If you're going to become an influencer, the business model being posting personal stuff online that you hope to appeal to followers, don't whinge about loss of privacy, and if you're actively seeking flattering comments on your lifestyle for profit, you have to roll with the punches if some of those comments are unflattering.
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Re: Tattle Life

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Post by silverbirch »

I've not heard of tattle life. Wouldn't be my thing. I would strongly disagree with your post though. Online abuse is inexcusable, no matter who the victim is.

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