It's All About Your Reputation
In lol...OMG!, by Matt Ivester, Chapter 7 explores the safeguards to help protect and manage your online presence. This are tips to help with long term safeguards for your online reputation. These seven steps are Google yourself, clean up contents on your accounts, update on privacy settings, ask for content to be removed, update and strengthen passwords, set up Google alert for your name, and claim your name. First is Googling yourself. This allows you to understand what type of information is out there about you. Ivester points out that Google only contains about 66% of the informatal searches, and for thorough results would be to check other search engine sites, such as Yahoo! and Bing . The next step is to go through your accounts and clean them up to best represent your best self. Ivester suggested going through Facebook first, looking at the different pages you "liked" and what they can be associated with, go t hrough your photos, vide