Website Review – How to Protect Your Online Reputation

The website How to Protect Your Online Reputation has great advice on how to find out how much information about you is on the internet, and what action you can take to help you shape your online reputation while staying safe. It teaches you how to search the web for specific personal information that might be out there and why it could be damaging to you in the future.

Five top tips for staying safe online:

1. Using your name online – make sure it is only your first name or a made-up name
2. Use different email addresses to keep your private and public life online separate
3. Google yourself to find out how much information is online about you, and ask the website owner or administrator to remove anything you don’t feel comfortable with
4. Use privacy settings when you have a profile on social networking sites; these allow you to determine who can comment and access your content
5. When posting content and writing posts about yourself make sure you would be comfortable with anyone viewing them – if a future employer or a family member was to read them you have to consider what they would think

How to Protect Your Online Reputation can be found at:

http://www.staysafe.org/toolbox/take_action/protect_yourself/online_reputation.html

Seriously, this is good advice.

xoxo Elle