Plenty of people use social media sites. Over 200 million people use Facebook.com. Sometimes what is posted is accurate, and other times it isn't. What's a person to do about it? Some highlights from a recent Forbes Magazine article about how to protect your online reputation:
"The best way to manage your online reputation is by generating positive search results that will rank as highly as possible in a Google search and edge out anything negative on the list of search results... Much as you would protect your credit, check for activity connected to your name. Set up a news feed for your name so you can monitor when and if you pop up on blogs or in news stories... register your name as a domain name, and sign up for every social network that you can think of. Those moves will ensure you have a presence and won't be mistaken for someone else. Then, take seriously what you post on the Web... Just because you can tell the world what you're doing doesn't mean you should... 35% of recruiters say they have eliminated a candidate because of something they found on the Web..."
Well, that is excellent advice. Read the Forbes article for details.
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