Online Reputation Management

Have you ever "Googled" your name in the search engine? What did you find? Did you see all the past remarks you made in your friends' blogs? Did you see the nostalgic photos that you saved on Flickr 5 years ago? And please do not be surprised that you may find your personal information available to the whole population of the Internet such as your education background and employment history.

It may not be a bad idea of letting people know everything about you. Well, on positive note, potential employers might find you the most suitable candidate for the current vacation in their organizations. However, the exposure of your personal information and history to public might make you be the target of dangerous people or scamming syndicates. We might also be target of revenge of some people who have some issues with us, without us realizing it. Therefore, as Internet users, we should maintain good and safe online reputation of ourselves. I came across this website which informs us on the do's and don't in the world of Internet. Let's have a quick look on what are the do's and don'ts.

IT is supposed to make our life easier, no?

I was just surfing around in the Internet on Saturday evening when I came across the following video made by Adam Technology. This video shows how the technology embedded in our daily life tends to make our life miserable.

Like it or not, I admit that my current lifestyle has been made simple and efficient via the usage of technology such as the computers, mobile phone, internet availability, e-commerce, e-banking and many more. However, there are times when I found that these technologies are rather disturbing and make my life a living hell.

Facebook Matters

Facebook usage is very common nowadays. Some use it as a medium of socialization. Some use it as a business platform and networking. Some use it for the purpose of finding new virtual friends and re-connecting with old friends.

The concept of Facebook that allows its users to post their current status (which sometimes can be extremely personal), the food they eat, places they go, friends they hang out with, exposed its users into some kind danger.

We may want to share few things with some friends, and keep away the same information from other friends. Well, the reason to this scenario is we may have several hundreds friend in our friends list, but the one that matters to us would only be a few. Hence the need to filter what information should be available to particular friends. I am sure that as a user, we may want to protect our privacy as an individual.

To cater to the above need, Facebook actually provides customization preferences, in which users can categorized their friends according to several groups. Using this application, we would be able to protect our privacy by allowing only selected people in selected groups to view our activities.

~First Entry~

Hello

This blog serves as a 10% of my assessment for the subject of Management in Information Systems (MIS750), which I am taking this semester. We are required to post a minimum of 5 entries pertaining to the latest news of IT and information systems. Being someone with minimal exposure on IT news, trust me, to write a minimum of 5 entries regarding IT news and information is a heavy chore. I hope my entries would be intelligent enough to earn some credits from the lecturer. :)

Nevertheless, I will try my best to keep myself up to date with the latest news on IT and I hope you will enjoy my writing.