3 Reasons To Monitor Your Social Media Profile

Using social media to connect with family and friends is great but it also has the potential to impact you, your family and your good name. Lets find out who else could be reviewing your social media account profiles...

Recruiters/Future Employees
Thinking of looking for a new job, well you'll be interested to learn that in a recent study(1) highlighted 93% of recruiters are likely to look at a candidate's social profile before considering a candidate to go forward in an interview process. The most popular social media sites used are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. So recall that time you were at your friends party and you were tagged having a beer in one hand recruiters or companies perspective of you an be negatively impacted from those photos available on social media. The recurituers won't have the context of the harmless night out with friends and could infer a person who is party animal. Recruiters and future prospective employees are trying to get an insight into the the person to see if there is anything in the past that may be a red flag. It just emphasis that managing your reputation and social profile is important.

Criminals
- Burglary
Criminals are monitoring individual's profiles to determine if they are at home. How many times have you seen holiday photos posted on-line on social media telling everyone we're having a great tine and see you next week when we get back. This is an opportunity for a criminal to reverse engineer details on social media and determine your address.
- Data Mining
What information have you made known about yourself on social media?. Your name(first name and or surname), partner/spouse, age, gender, address, relationship status, high school graduation year, current location? Do your friends inadvertently and innocently provide personal information about you on their social media profiles? It's unfortunate that innocent actions can lead to identity stealing this personal information for personal gain. Using this information could assist dishonest individuals to commit fraudulent and criminal activities.

Cyber Bullies
An unfortunate impact that has had serious consequences on many families globally is cyber bullying. Faceless trolls use social media as a forum to verbally abuse people of all ages. Especially impacted are teenagers and those in their early 20's who don't yet have that level of life experience to know to ignore such comments.

Summary
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References
1).Jobvite's 2014 Social Recruiting Survey : https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Jobvite_SocialRecruiting_Survey2014.pdf