Keep your personal stuff, well, personal!
October 30, 2009I had a post a couple months ago dealing with the importance of keeping your business and personal pages separate. Well, I think that I unfortunately need to go into detail about keeping your personal business personal!
If you are a business professional or have aspirations of becoming one your future employers and coworkers will search you out on the internet to find out more about you.
1. Keep your profiles PRIVATE. This takes actually going into your settings and making all of your items "friends only" and "private". This world is shrinking at an alarming rate, I would recommend avoiding any risk and really setting it to "friends only" instead of allowing even friends of friends to see it. You never know who your friends may know...
2. If you find a picture that your friends has up of you should not be up or you would no longer like it up, first ask them to remove it. If they are unwilling to remove it untag yourself. You should always try to have it removed because untagging yourself only limits users searching for your photos, if they are looking for someone else in the picture they may inadvertently find you.
3. Do not hesitate to stand up for yourself in polite ways. If someone has made a nasty comment about you, or even if a friend posts on your profile about how "totally wasted!" you were last night, DELETE IT. Do not worry about offending your friend! Take comments down, untag and remove pictures! This is your reputation, your own personal brand and you need to own and manage it.
4. Here are some general topics to avoid: drinking, drug usage, law breaking, sex, politics, relationships, and anything that you would not tell a future interviewer or boss.
Seems like it should be common sense, but to some they just do not realize how real this topic actually is.
Example:Fired after Twitter reads "Bored at Work"
