Interact: Test Yourself

This is the easiest and perhaps most interesting and critical test you could do this month. Never mind your exams. We’ve tried this the last few months and are disgusted with the results.

1. Do this: Search your “First & Last Name” + “Facebook” – and don’t use Google, that ‘s like failing the test before even starting. Use Scroogle and keep track of the results.

A. How is your online presence represented? Overall how do you come off looking?
B. How much do you appear in the public forum?
C. Is what you’re doing in the public forum something that you’d get shit for if the TSA started using Google’s public forum to screen you?
D. Would you delete your full profile right now if Facebook made everything in your profile public today?

2. Tell us in a comment what you expected to see and what the results were.

It’s frightening to see one thing, let along 12 when you’re using a network that was promoted to be closed and then opened up against your wishes. What will they share about you next? It’s safe to bet it could be as shitty as what is on your police or CIA record… except worse because it would be full-out public where it’s hard to prove shit like employment and economic/income discrimination. No one likes to be singled-out. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and there are a lot of shitass dogs. Why make yourself more vulnerable than you already are?

We’ve got a lot to go in and clean up ourselves and we suggest you get to it too.

Happy “Deleting!”