Posted on 04/03/2011 6:23:00 PM PDT by decimon
NEWS FLASH: Once something is posted to the Internet, it’s never going away.
This is a concept that many are still coming to terms with. But it’s one that we must all face if we are to make wise choices about what we do and do not post online.
When the issues related to Facebook privacy percolate to the surface every couple of months or so, for example, the most practical Net citizens always offer a bit of advice that the rest of us can’t quite seem to grasp: If it’s not something you would share with everyone, don’t share it at all.
This guiding principle applies to comments, pictures, videos and any other form of media that fits within the confines of this oh-so-popular series of tubes. But what happens when what’s shown or said about you isn’t within your control?
That conundrum — and how to solve it — is adding fuel to an industry of online image managers, companies that specialize in cleaning up the online you.
According to an article in this weekend’s The New York Times Magazine, companies like Reputation.com have begun to make a killing by wrangling the vast and unwieldy details that have begun to plague Internet users.
Services like Reputation, whose tag line is “Make the Internet reflect reality,” have long been used by celebrities or Wall Street bankers who hope to keep bad press from soiling their ‘good name’ in a Google search. At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, one banker reportedly spent $10,000 per month to maintain his online image.
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The same can be said to some extent for your hard drive. Unless it is overwritten, “deleted” files are still there. And even then, with the right software, some or all of it may be able to be retrieved.
There are a lot of people serving time in prison who thought that when you delete a file, internet search, etc., off your computer it was gone forever.
I think the internet *does*, to their chagrin, reflect reality
Fortunately, I'm a nobody so my hard drive wouldn't be worth the trouble. :-)
I have applied this technique to every one of the most popular social networking sites available today and it is 100% effective. Guaranteed.
The secret solution?
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Do not sign up for an account.
Just make sure your “significant other” does not find the links to those adult web sites in your Temporary Internet Files!!!
Early learners of marking understand the fulfillment of a HD.
Nothing major on my part but a script to get someone to stop using government computers for personal business worked quite well. The erasure of said script was tedious.
I’ve never seen that. Now I’m curious as to what it meant in that book.
Thanks. I see it’s a name. And that my namesake is telling a really dumass story. Alas.
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