What is your online image project About You?
Although most Internet users tend to share more - all types of information, they are not generally concerned about the impact that their actions online can bring. According to a survey by Microsoft, 56% do not think about how their online actions could affect their lives. The survey questioned 5,000 people in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Spain and Canada. Moreover, 62% do not consider how their online behavior may affect the long term other.
Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, Brendon Lynch says, "everything depends much on who has access to the data, each personal information that exists about you online - whether posted by you or other - has the potential to impact how you are viewed by family and friends, an employer, a mortgage lender and more "
14% of adults surveyed reported experiencing negative consequences because of the online behavior of someone else. Some have suffered serious consequences such as:
- 21% said they were fired from their jobs
- 16% lost about getting a job or have lost their health insurance
- 14% was not accepted to their college of choice
- 15 percent were rejected for a mortgage.
others said that their online activities have caused a friend or family member to lose a friendship, or embarrassed, or are victims of identity theft.
In order to better manage their online reputation, users must regularly search the Web for their name and email addresses to see what has been written about them, Lynch recommended. In the survey, 37% of adults said they never do
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