How to fix your reputation online?

Now even with hiring employers sometimes view your accounts in social networks, to get to know you. If you do not want someone of your friends to see photos from the competition by cutting the forest naked, in which you participated last Friday, it is necessary to attend to how to remove this information from the web. Let your online reputation is impeccable.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said: "If you do not want to have someone of something learned, so maybe just do not do it at all?" Well, perhaps this is the right advice. But, unfortunately, in most cases it is not suitable. In addition, there are some photos or video, we'd love to show your friends, but do not want it to be seen by others. Despite the many privacy settings, such data still sometimes leaked and begin to walk on the Internet.

Let's see how you can tweak your reputation on the Internet. To begin, let's deal with Facebook, which is perhaps the most popular social network, and it was there that often pops up dirt. And then look at the network as a whole.

Delete incriminating data from Facebook

So your friend, relative, or perhaps an enemy (well, hurt you people decided to take revenge) posted some objectionable information you need. What to do?

Step one: use the built-in Facebook.

You can not, of course, delete a photo or video from the profile of another person, but you can make sure that it does not appear in your profile.

Each publication is an icon in the upper right corner. When you click on it a menu drops, in which you can select from three options: delete profile, remove the tag, mark as spam. The difference between these three options is small, but there. If the publication has appeared in your profile because you marked it, is enough to remove the label. If this publication is posted on your wall, you need to remove it. If you post to your wall from an unknown person, or from a friend who is trying to hurt you in this way, it is better to mark the publication of spam. In this case, this person will not be able to get you a long time, as Facebook does not allow the distribution of a large number of spam messages.

At the top of your profile is typically displayed for 5 photos. If you want to keep them in an album, but for some reason do not want them to be seen at once input on a page, simply click on the X that appears when you hover the mouse on the photo.

These were the instructions for the most common cases. For more information about how to deal with undesirable content on Facebook, look at Facebook Help center.

Step two: ask a friend who posted the unwanted materials, remove them.

Once you have done all that is possible with built-in Facebook tools, your next step is to talk with the person who placed the unpleasant content for you. Just write a message with a polite request to remove the publication. It is not always effective, but perhaps people did not want to offend you, and did not think that this post so you upset. When sending a message, make a screenshot just in case. So you can always prove that sent the request.

Step three: co contact Facebook Support.

There are many reasons that your friends will not remove content from its pages. If you have tried all the methods, proposed reference centerBut it did not work, then move on to the third step: try to complain to support Facebook, although they do not give any guarantees. So what can be done:

1. Write about your issue in the forum. There you can get advice from other users or from Facebook employees.

2. Perhaps the offender, writing message about violation of intellectual property rights. Write, do not give this person permission to use your image in any way, and you want an image removed.

3. Leave message violation of the conditions in Facebook. This form is intended for those who can not log into your Facebook account. Those. in theory, you should use other methods presented above. But if you do, these methods do not help, then exit your Facebook akkakunta and send a complaint via this form.

4. Call the central Facebook office at (650) 543-4800. If you press 1 for customer support, they'll tell you they do not provide such services (thank you, Facebook!). If you have a friend of a law enforcement officer, which may call for you, then press the number 2, you'll call back in a couple of days. If you do not have such useful friends, then press the number 7, for other users, and leave a message. Most likely, you do not call back, though, the chance is still there, if the situation is extreme and you can not apply it to the police.

5. Send an email to: [email protected]. This address such acts, but few got to answer. So use this option last.

More about a few ways to make contact with Facebook Support read here.

Step four: take out the privacy settings.

Undesirable content is easier to prevent than to deal with it.
In the dropdown menu "Account", which is in the upper right corner, find the "Privacy Settings." Here you can prevent other people to post anything on your wall. In these settings, you can lock locked by another user: he can not be your friend and can not in any way interact with you.

Perhaps to avoid the unpleasant publications, you only need to edit the block "Communication": who can add you as a friend, who can send you messages and publish something on your wall.

How to remove or hide the undesirable results produced when searching on the Internet

Of course, the fastest way to find any information about the person - is type his name into the search box. You can not, of course, to remove something from the site, but you can hide it away to prying people could not get to compromising information. We consider disposal options compromising of the Google SERPs.

Step one: try to formally remove the content.

First, of course, should write the owner of the site where you placed an unnecessary information, and ask him to remove the information. After removal from the site, the materials over time and leave the SERPs. If this focus has not passed, and the site owner did not want to delete the information, or you want to be exactly sure in the search results it will not appear, submit a request to the search system. Many search engines provide this service. Here are detailed instructions for Google, google Images and Bing.

In really severe cases, you can send a complaint to Google. Google promptly respond to the complaint and immediately remove content from search results, not particularly bothered over the investigation into the circumstances. It's good for you, but not so cool for people whose pages are removed due to a complaint. After the appeals process can take a very long time. So think carefully whether you have offended so much that you want so much harm to this person.

Step Two: bury unwanted content, so that no one has ever found.

Do you want to hide something? Your best friend would be a complete mess. Imagine, in the search results appears a couple of your photos. One of which you yourself would love to see is not. Fine! She immediately catches the eye. And if the pictures countless? She just lost among others. So urgently everywhere are starting to post pictures from pious content and promote them in all possible ways.

The easiest way to do this - to have accounts in all possible social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Google+, Blogger etc. Do not forget that you should always take place under his real name to all the photos, videos and messages associated with it.

And, you can register a domain name, calling it by its name, and to do online business card. Unscrew the site so that it appears first in the search results. Naturally, the site should be about you the most that neither is an excellent information.

Yes, it is very difficult - to hide information that has already leaked to the Internet. And whether you need these torments? Perhaps there is nothing wrong with a pair of pictures :)