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Your Internet Persona Stays With You Forever

The Internet has a very hard time forgetting and is far more like a “permanent tattoo” then you may realize. Today, and even more so in the future, college recruiters look up information about prospective applicants. Fast forward to the day when you graduate. Hiring managers and recruiters will look at your online reputations before deciding whether to hire. So be wise – Internet mistakes stay around. 

It is just as important for parents to act as a ‘role model’ online as it is offline. Talk to your children about the advantages and the hazards of communicating online. Parents should help and support teenagers to keep their social media profiles clean. Encouraging them to start building a digital CV as early as possible, is very beneficial to their future.

Parents do an audit of your child’s online presence to see how they are representing themselves across social media and blogs.

Useful Links

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.