If I did a Google search on you, do you know what I would find?
As the world gets more connected, the chances of you being found online increases. Everything you post on Twitter, Facebook and other social media remains long after the controversial conversation concludes or compromising photo was taken. People may not have been watching at the time but the Internet never sleeps and has a long memory.
Take charge of your on-line presence by making sure your content on all these sites reflect a positive image of you. Check your sharing securities on Facebook, think before you post online on blogs, comment on news stories or pass comments on Twitter.
Once you have cleaned up, stay clean using Google Alerts. If you are a registered Google user, you can use the Google Alert function to trawl the internet for your full name or just your surname (mine is pretty unique so that works for me). When anything gets posted on the Internet and Google finds it using your search terms, you get an e-mail with a link to the site.
That way you can check whether the new information on the web that relates to you adds or detracts from your on-line image and you can try to change it.
People are getting fired and not being hired due to Facebook activity and what Google searches turn up. Don’t go making the same mistake.
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