Online

I've been thinking about my online life a lot lately, and how it can affect me. I'm particularly concerned about it at the moment, as I am looking for a job and I'm thinking forward about my career and possibly grad school and I'm concerned about how things online could affect my professional (and maybe even personal) image. It's not something I gave a lot of thought to before, but if I google myself it's surprising what comes up. I've ended up editing quite a few profiles (quite a few seem difficult to delete entirely). Stuff I haven't used in ages, like hi5 (an early pre-facebook, pre MySpace social networking site), profiles on modeling sites...stuff like that. I also totally forgot about LinkedIn, and that could be a helpful site to use so I updated it. But anyway, it's really surprising how stuff about you just ends up on the internet....like things you wrote years ago, pictures from who-knows-when...it all seems to linger.