75 percent of employment recruiters collect online information on prospective candidates (Preston, 2011)
but our digital lives are starting earlier and earlier. For instance, one recent survey reports that 81 percent of children under the age of 2 already have some kind of digital footprint or profile
Many social networking sites allow you to download third-party applications that let you do more with your personal page. Criminals sometimes use these applications to steal your personal information
Avoid obvious passwords such as your children's or pet's name or your birthday and use different passwords for different websites.
If you have a public profile, it can be seen by anyone searching the social networking site and might also be available to people searching for profiles using a search engine, such as Google