Tools to Manage Your Online Identity
Making sure you are who you think you are
Monday, September 10, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
You have your profile on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn. A personal page here at WinCustomize, on DeviantArt, Skinning.net and elsewhere. You also have your email address, instant messaging accounts, maybe a personal page somewhere, and countless forum accounts scattered across the Internet. You're online identity is a tangled mess of half-completed, often out of date profiles dotting the online landscape.
While a lot of ink is spent on concerns over regular identity theft (someone hijacking your bank and credit accounts), online identity theft is becoming just as big of a problem, especially with employers Googling current and prospective employees. If you're at all connected to the IT field, your online identity is extremely important and must be very carefully managed.
Mashable has a list of 25 tools for managing and monitoring your online identity to make sure the information that's out there is both accurate and reflects you in the way you want it to.
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Reply #1 Monday, September 10, 2007 11:46 AM
If someone stole my idenity they wouldn't get very much, but getting hold of what I have isn't what that's all about I take. Someone could be using other's profiles for all kinds of things.