College students should delete potentially embarrassing photos and posts from their social media accounts and set their profiles to private to become more employable.
Some students learn the hard way what can happen when bad behavior goes viral.
Rebecca Martinson recently sent a profanity-laced email to her sorority sisters at the University of Maryland. The email was quickly leaked to various social media websites. She canceled her Facebook and Twitter accounts, but the backlash was swift and harsh.
“Remember that social media lives forever – just because comments and photos are deleted doesn’t mean they are gone,” the College Recruiter Connector advises
in a press release .
Simply setting your profile to private may not be enough protection.
“New grads think that employers can’t see their information with a private profile, but they are wrong,” Dan Schwabel told MSN News.
Students can use websites, such as SimpleWash, to delete unwanted posts and pictures on Facebook and Twitter.
The best course of action is to simply avoid posting anything on the internet that you would be embarrassed to have repeated.