Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Your Online Footprint
www.productivity501.com: The CEO of Google has suggested that once you leave college, you may want to change your name to distance yourself from all the dumb things you did as a younger person and can’t erase from the Internet. Of course if you change your name, you won’t be associated with any of the positive things you did either.
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With this article being very prevalent for me as I enter college and start looking for jobs in the future I cant help but thank my parents. For me growing up I was never allowed to have social media and this was frustrating as most of my friends if not all did. But I get why they never let me, they wanted to give me the best chance at jobs and other things as I got older. If you search my name you'll see a bunch of swim meets. But that wont affect my job or getting a job. You wont find any social media or anything to give my employers a reason to not hire me from what they find on the internet. As I get older I cant help but thank my parents for what they did as it will only help me in life as I get older.
In getting closer and closer to starting the college process, I have been thinking a lot about my digital footprint lately. I have several social media accounts, and I often don’t post on them. Still, I go on my peer’s social media sites and see things that can get them in a lot of trouble. All the rules that were laid out are good ones to follow, and after reading them I followed some of those steps myself. By having a fairly unique name, I do not run the risk of colleges or future employers confusing me for someone else. Still, I think that taking extra percussions is important. We are living in a very digital age, and despite what they say, even if you delete something, it does stay, somewhere, and more and more companies are hiring people who are good a digging and finding old deleted things. In exchange for more connection, we give up our ability to forget old mistakes, and often those old mistakes can cost us.
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