Safer Internet For Kids

If you have teens, even young adults, this is something you might want to suggest and talk to them about doing. More and more employers are scouring places like Facebook, picture hosting sites and other social networking sites to check up on candidates. It’s not right, but it happens. A picture of a bright and promising kid drunk at a party does not fare well when he or she’s applying for a job. It’s not only pictures. Employers also look at blogs and how candidates behave themselves on their own
blogs. Kids coming out of high school and entering college are not spared either.

Apart from this, my concern mostly is about untruths. Because of the Internet, rumors that once were confined to a local area is now spread around the world. Heck, I remember even those lies and rumors in school itself were hard to take let alone have them online. So how do you find out if there’s any malicious stuff about your child online? Or maybe they unknowingly let slip their private information once and now that information is out there flitting around just waiting to be caught. You could do searches
but here’s something, someone to do it for you.

I found ReputationDefender.com today. For a monthly subscription they will actively search for information about you or your children online. When they find something they’ll report it to you and if you wish, they’ll remove it for a fee of $30 a pop. Kinda steep but may be worth it. I just wonder though, how do they know if the person requesting this service is really me? I mean it could just as easily be someone who wants to track my info
right? Any thoughts?

 

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