Lots of people seem to be getting value out of these posts on personal resilience, so I will keep adding them.
Question:
Do you know of any service that will check a person's exposure on the web? I wasn't always as careful with my online activities as I'm trying to be now, and it'd be nice to know what sort of damage control I'm looking at in terms of going forward with my personal brand.
Answer:
Type your name into Google. Take a look at the first 3-5 pages of links you get (as well as the images). If you don't see that much, don't worry about it. If you see anything that you control and can delete, do it now. It will take a couple of months, but it will eventually fade away. Other than that, there isn't much you can do about it.
Here's what I recommend: The BEST way to deal with old info is to ignore it. Focus on the future. Put up info on what you are doing every day (if possible). Put up project updates, pictures, short paragraphs on something you are working on, etc. It's something, once you get the hang of it, you can do in ten minutes. Something you can do every other day or so (think of it like exercising, it's a long term investment in your future). In a short period of time, you will have so much info on the Web about you, that anything that came before it is, for all intents and purposes, invisible.
Like life. Don't waste time trying to fix the past. It's a waste of time and nobody really cares anyway. It is what you are doing now that matters.
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