Helpful Tips for Social Networking

• Do a Google Search on yourself to see what turns up. If an embarrassing MySpace profile page turns up as the first hit, there's still time to fix it.
• Also, just because you have removed information doesn’t mean that it has been completely purged. Check Google caches and the Wayback Machine as well.

• Be smart with privacy-controls. Set your main profile page on private or limit what average viewers can see.
• Carefully consider what pictures should be posted online. If you post photo albums online, think about setting the photo albums to private to share only with friends if you don't want it publicly shown.
• Profile pictures are the first things people see when your name is found as a search result, pick a good picture that will not give a wrong first impression
• Use common sense. Sometimes, plain intuition and asking yourself "do I really want this online?" are the most helpful tools to protect yourself online.