Not much in this article about keeping it positive and molding your online reputation…but focusing on the negative certainly captures people’s attention.

• On-line Reputation Management « Free Stuff For Canadian Teachers

  • Online reputation management

    By Tony Wilson

  • A good name can be worth millions, and we all know by now what happens when a good name gets into bad trouble.

  • If someone says or publishes something about another person that is untrue, not otherwise privileged, and this damages the other person’s reputation, this may well amount to defamation and legal consequences may follow. “online” publication of defamatory statements on Facebook, Twitter, or on blogs is still publication. But what if the damaged reputation is self-inflicted?

  • echo what most of the deans of Canada’s law schools tell their new students each year: “Clean up your Facebook pages. Your prospective employers are all law firms. They will be looking for you.”

    I can tell you first-hand, we do. All employers do. We have to.

  • Facebook can retain cached archives of everything everyone puts on Facebook, even if it’s deleted 60 seconds after being posted.

  • Digital pictures pulled from Facebook can be Photoshopped and otherwise manipulated in very bad ways.

  • Insurance company investigators regularly check Facebook pages of those they are investigating, sometimes posing as high school friends, or friends of friends so they can surreptitiously see the Facebook page and confirm or deny the claim.

  • one’s Facebook page can be evidence and can be the subject of cross examination

  • no one is anonymous anymore

  • Displaying your birthday and work history may be inviting scammers to apply for credit cards and otherwise steal your identity. Don’t give out your birthday.

  • Tweets on Twitter will soon be searchable on Google

  • Users should limit the number of friends on Facebook to real friends

  • Finally, students shouldn’t post pictures or comments they wouldn’t want their mother, their grandmother, or their future employer to see, because one day soon, they will.

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