Cleaning your internet profile

[redrabbit29]

I'm going for a job where they research you deeply.

I would like less of a profile online...

Facebook - suspend obviously
Twitter - I will block all outside access and sanitise
Instagram - dunno

basically, how do you remove traces of yourself online?

 

[redrabbit29]

To make this easier to access

Imagine someone was trying to search for things about you online, via nickname, real name, location, association, email, etc...

How would you make it as hard as possible?

 

[Mynight]

Google yourself and any related search terms you can think of. Once done find any links in there relating to you and work on abolishing them. Bare in mind some pages get crawled so infrequently it's almost impossible to remove(in this case report the link as invalid info to google).

At least leave a couple that show you in a good light. No results are just as bad as bad results apparantly(declined a job, friend told me the managers tried to find any online info about me and failed).

 

[JohnnyG]

I wouldn't post on an open forum asking how to hide my identity.

 

[Mynight]

Hang on you're the bloke trying to get into cyber crimes aren't you?

I'd have thought you'd know how to do this already .

 

[Malevolence]

Simple, don't ***** all manner of your personal life and drunken exploits across a myriad social media sites to start with. Well, at least not under your own name anyway.

 

[V F]

I wouldn't post on an open forum asking how to hide my identity.

Simple, don't ***** all manner of your personal life and drunken exploits across a myriad social media sites to start with. Well, at least not under your own name anyway.

Heh! Is anyone actually chuckling to this?

 

[redrabbit29]

Haha, drunken mischief is my middle name.

That's fine, but I just wanna remove any obvious sources I can. I'm not that concerned about some things.

I have nothing to hide, just want a bit of a tone down that's all

 

[Tefal]

google name and email address and known relatives/friends names and email addresses.

remember you can clean up your own **** but you cant clean up others.

 

[Mynight]

Haha, drunken mischief is my middle name.

That's fine, but I just wanna remove any obvious sources I can. I'm not that concerned about some things.

I have nothing to hide, just want a bit of a tone down that's all

There's a lot of info linked to your username alone. Try googling your real name to see if you can link it with your username. If not then you only have to worry about your actual name. If you can then whomevers looking you up will have an aweful lot. (Admittedly nothing dodgy but I've only been looking for 5 minutes).

 

[Ilikeitblackplease]

you can ask Google not to show it, new EU law.