I recently received an email from Expedia.com asking me to complete a survey. Among the questions you were asked to rate the following things out of a maximum of 10:
“Your relationship with your family”
“Your financial situation”
“Your health”
“Your love life. (truly!)
“Your happiness
Expedia is a travel company that books trips and hotels. What possible business does it have asking these personal and intrusive questions? And what possible relevance do they have to an on-line travel agency?
Facebook and other internet sites have now created a culture where it seems quite alright to not only ask highly personal questions, but in addition it is acceptable to offer answers to them. I was tempted to do a spoof of Expedia’s tacky survey, but if I did I would deserve to have no readers.
By the way, I canceled my account with Expedia and told them they had no judgment or common sense. Answer came there none.
If only there were a way to find out specifically, WHO? at Expedia:
(a) came up with the idea of asking these personal questions;
(b) who was responsible for allowing the ratty idea to reach their website? My guess is the initial group came from an ad hoc committee of young twenty year-olds and no one was paying attention further up the chain-of-command.
More and more the idea of personal accountability seems to recede behind a bureaucratic wall of “committees.” We need names of the individuals who bear responsibility from any organizations whose activities affect us all.