Keep Facebook Classy

Believe it or not your employers are watching you. Or potential employers for that matter. They do have Facebook! People that intern or work at companies are the same age or only a few years older than you and were in college once too. They know how the internet works and the pictures and wall posts that are put online. Obviously they are smart and do a little background check before giving you an interview or the job. So, in short, edit pictures, comments, etc. or set your privacy settings extremely high.

I have a friend who once walked into an interview and the first thing the interviewer said was, "nice costume." Puzzled, my friend asked what they were talking about. The interviewer went on to describe the old woman lunch lady costume that my MALE friend wore for Halloween that year, details which were gotten off of Facebook. Can you say awkward?

If you need some help changing the settings on your Facebook profile, I can help (clearly I am a Facebook expert). When you log in, go to the privacy part in the top right corner of the screen. Then click on profile. In this section you can decide who sees tagged photos, status updates, wall posts, etc. You can also set a limited profile that contains only certain things and then when people friend you then you can decide if you only want them to see a limited profile. Do not have your profile available to everyone or even people in your networks, it could end up getting you in trouble!