This article came from The Week Magazine.
Think twice before you delete all those request from “annoying people” looking to befriend you on Facebook or LinkedIn, said Julia Angwin in The Wall Street Journal. “These acquaintances could come in very handy when looking for a job or a new career.” In fact, so-called weak ties may be a bigger asset in a job search than your closest circle of friends. “Your weak ties are your window on the world,” says Stanford professor Mark Granovetter, adding that he accepts friends requests, “if I know the person, whether I like them or not.”
But inviting more people into your social network raises the question of how much to reveal about yourself online.
I have another article I am working on, and how to best utilize a social networking site.
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For the time being, here are a list of recommended sites that help to watch over your online and internet personas.
Claimid.com – a free service to help tailor your online identity. You can pool together personal information by ‘claiming’ relevant content from the Internet, then share the resulting profile with others.
Google.com/profiles – a “personal branding tool” similar to ClaimID. Users set up profiles with their personal info and links to all web content they would like associated with them – such as Twitter feed or a company website. Whenever your name is searched, your profile appears on the first page of results.
Reputationdefender.com — a site that will “monitor everything that is said about you online,” for $15 a month. It combs the Web, presenting you with all the pages in which you are mentioned, and allows you to rank what info you’d like to appear first when people search for you online.
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