{"id":6041,"date":"2016-11-30T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:15:04","slug":"social-media-postings-can-come-back-haunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/career-coaching\/social-media-postings-can-come-back-haunt\/","title":{"rendered":"How Social Media Postings can Come Back to Haunt You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We all know how it goes by now: you\u2019re on an epic vacation; an amazing night out with friends; having a marvelous brunch with the ones you love AND you want to share it with your whole social media network. Afterall, it\u2019s just a cocktail\/bathing suit\/\u201dwasted\u201d shot that you\u2019re sharing to show how much fun you just had. Imagining all the \u201clikes\u201d and \u201cloves\u201d we get and all the potential envy that\u2019s out there propels our decision to share maybe too much. And, that\u2019s where we just made our first mistake. By posting anything on the internet, we also know that it will be there forever<\/em> (the blog said in a scary voice)!!<\/p>\n

Now that you\u2019re older and wiser and serious about getting a career-type job or entering in that super relationship that feels like it might last forever, you\u2019ve completely forgotten about all the \u201cfun\u201d you had. Never fear: the internet is there to remind you and everyone else!<\/em> Suppose you\u2019re applying to work in the field of substance abuse: No potential employer wants to find pictures of you drunk, drinking, or behaving in a reckless manner. Or, say you\u2019ve entered in a relationship and you\u2019re thinking your partner is \u201cthe one.\u201d Well, how would your partner feel finding pictures of you in compromising situations? Most likely, not very good.<\/p>\n

This<\/a> article on CNet.com has some useful tips on how to remove your internet footprint. However, you don\u2019t have to go to such lengths. Just stop posting sensitive items and start removing photos that aren\u2019t professional. Even if you aren\u2019t friends\/following an employer or someone who doesn\u2019t need to know\u00a0 so much about you, chances are, if they google your name, your information will pop up. And, it might be that exact information you don\u2019t want them to see. There in one obvious way to still post and keep private: Adjust your privacy settings<\/strong> across the board to prevent random people (or people who shouldn\u2019t be seeing questionable posts) from being able to access your posting. Here, you can adjust WHO sees what post; what others are ALLOWED to post on your wall; and how to BLOCK access altogether.<\/p>\n

And, when in doubt, don\u2019t post something that you woudn\u2019t want your mom to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know how it goes by now: you\u2019re on an epic vacation; an amazing night out with friends; having a marvelous brunch with the ones you love AND you want to share it with your whole social media network. Afterall, it\u2019s just a cocktail\/bathing suit\/\u201dwasted\u201d shot that you\u2019re sharing to show how much fun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}