I shake my head every time I see some moron post something on Facebook for EVERYONE to see, including their parents, professors, co-workers, bosses, and potential employers. It’s unbelievable how careless and reckless people are with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Recently, Facebook announced that status updates will start getting indexed by Google. Images and the profiles themselves have been indexed by Google and other search engines for a long time now. Let’s say you’re interviewing for jobs and you just posted a photo album of last night with great pictures of you doing keg stands and making out with random people. That’ll be just perfect when a potential employer Googles your name and checks your Facebook profile. But, you can still be an idiot on Facebook and not get caught. You just need to spend some time customizing your privacy settings.
I’ve prepared a short screen cast to show you how to customize your Facebook privacy settings. In the screen cast, you’ll learn how to stop search engines like Google and Yahoo from indexing your Facebook profile information and images, so they don’t show up in search engine search results. I’ll also show you how to stop allowing Facebook from selling your personal information to third parties for advertising purposes.
You can thank me later on this one. I might have saved your job or helped you actually GET a job.
