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you can just Hide your Likes, Groups and Check- With social media safety in mind, what if those
ins sections if you don’t want recruiters finding photos you regularly uploaded were used by
this info either. one of your ‘friends’ to create a fake account and
You can also hide individual groups if you think steal your identity? It’s serious stuff, and most of
being a member of such an elaborately titled us simply don’t understand the power of social
group could be particularly incriminating; you media. Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever.
can choose to unlike pages too if you think So to shed a little optimism on the issue, you
they might have the same effect. If anything, should have a friends clear out to try and avoid
this is just a chance for a major Facebook clean- this fate. Get rid of anyone you haven’t spoken
up generally, in addition to prepping for a job to in an age and a half, anyone you wouldn’t
search! speak to if you saw them out and about, and
most importantly, get rid of those randomers you
Friends thought you’d accept just to raise the number on
Do you have as many friends in real life as you your friends list!
do on Facebook? Congratulations if you do, but
for the most part, I’m pretty sure that a large Twitter
chunk of our Facebook friends are just people As you’d expect, when there’s Facebook there’s
we’d either like to keep in touch with or stalk a Twitter. Typically for younger generations, Twitter
little for gossip every now and again. If you’ve got is a platform people use to rant about the world
500, 800, 1000+ friends though, you need to be in 140 characters or less. You don’t, however,
careful. want recruiters or employers to find your past
Do you trust everyone on your friends list with tweets explicitly expressing your hatred for your
your personal information? As social media is ex’s new lover.
such a big part of our lives, it might just seem Twitter can be used to your advantage when
harmless posting photos of you, your family or job hunting so you need to have a clean-up and
friends. But what if a mortifying photo from a make it a professional platform rather than an
couple of years back reappears through Timehop emotional outlet.
and one of your ‘friends’ decides to post it on your
wall for a recruiter to see? Not good. www.cv-library.co.uk
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