This has been a week when children or young teens could use online reputation management, that much is true. Rebecca Black is the newest personality to sweep the social networking and search industries, but it isn’t a positive development for her. Her music video, which can be found on Youtube, has been spread all across the Internet because…well…it’s awful. I won’t pile on, but the general consensus is that it’s a very very bad song. Of course…she shouldn’t be too upset:

Viral web sensation Rebecca Black is the most popular kid on the internet – estimated to have earned $US40,000 in a week from her vanity YouTube music clip – but child psychologists and online reputation experts are sounding the alarm.

Frankly, I get the concern from child psychologists, but $40,000 is a lot of dough for a 13 year old. She can put towards a top notch college education and maybe a car and then every peer who sneers at her, she can respond to them using a Harvard education while driving her new model car. Not much to make fun of there.