Digital Status? Yes, Sir, Coming Right Away

The digital status is the way in which you're perceived in the online world and online identity expert Garlik has developed a method and a system of calculating it.

The system was dubbed QDOS and it works by measuring an individual's digital status and analyzing his/her popularity, impact and individuality online. So you'd better watch out what you share with your friends and which sites you surf or else you might find out that you're popular for completely the wrong reasons.

The site where this "calculator" for digital statuses can be found is not surprisingly named… QDOS.com and it has so far analyzed tens of millions of digital profiles in order to provide a status for each of Britain's 45 million adults, so if you're a resident just check the site out, enter your name and your postcode and brace yourself for what's going to come right at you.

The original purpose of the site was that of a warning to the danger of disclosing personal information online. "As events of the last week have graphically demonstrated, everyone has a digital identity whether they like it or not and these identities are valuable and worth protecting," said Tom Ilube, CEO of Garlik.

You might find surprising where some people turn for advice when it comes to very important decisions that will most definitely affect their future: 16 percent of the Britons have actually chosen their new home based on how their prospective neighbors appear online, while 12 percent looked up on the Internet for information about the person they were about to date. When it comes to jobs, Brits are a bit more thorough, one in five having researched a prospective boss before accepting the job offered.

Webuser.com tested it and found that "the QDOS score for celebrities reveals how web-savvy stars are proving more influential online than their old-fashioned counterparts. For example, MySpace user Lily Allen's score (Q8850) thrashes the total scored by Mick Jagger (Q6338)." How about it?