Whenever it was that I joined the ranks of the whole online, facebook, myspace, blogging craze, I noticed a lot of embarrassing stuff that people posted to their sites. Not embarrassing maybe to their friends, but definitely content, that they wouldn't want parents or say, future employers to see. So I wrote a blog about it. In more words I basically said that if you wanted a money making idea, come up with a business to clean up all the online images of our future business leaders of America. All the jr. high and high school kids of today putting everything up for public display might find that a hindrance to gaining employment when they start looking for jobs. Well, those businesses are here. The NPR link below has a great look at these online reputation firms. It gives statistics like, "In a recent survey, one in 10 hiring managers say they rejected candidates because of things they found out about them on the Internet."
It highlights points like, "Even when you delete images from the Web, they sometimes live on search-engine files." These firms aren't making millions today, but from the looks of the sites I've seen lately, in a few years, the image clean up business will be booming.
It makes you think that what you are putting on your profile now, might cost you hundreds of dollars to get rid of in the future.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6462504
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