Everyone is or was young once. Everyone at some did something embarrassing that ended up on a friend's cellphone or the internet, as much as we don't want to think about ot may even enjoy having that available to look back at and laugh at, it really shouldn't be there.
Today, "Digital Footprint" is the topic of the tutorial and about this topic, we are going to discuss or look at how to eliminate the unwanted pieces as well as clean-up the risk-of leaking sort of information from the internet (as best as we can at least).
First thing is first, go through ANY "old" or "current" social media accounts, forum accounts, ALL OF IT and eliminate anything that may paint you in a negative light. May be even delete a few of the accounts you no longer use anymore. The best thing that could happen, the websites you used to participate in, were bought up by new websites or dissolved over time.
Secondly, after starting the purge process of "old" you, begin the search for any lingering pictures, videos or other information and track where it is stored. How to do this:
1) Enter any web browser;
2) Enter Bing, Baidu, Ask Jeeves and Google
3) Type your search term and look for anything that pops-up which paints your name in a negative light
4) Type your name, nickname, emails, anything that is related or linked to you or your social media accounts and ensure that there is no buried "dirt" by clicking ahead to the last search page link available
5) Check "Youtube", "Youku", and "Bilibili" as well with steps 3 and 4
NOTE: If you have lingering information on websites or in the hands of others, you may need to put in requests to have it removed, in some cases, press charges (yes, that is a thing).
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