How You Can Protect Your Digital Reputation - June 13, 2022

What is a Digital Reputation and How Can You Protect It?

Director, Lisa Honold, spoke on KOAT’s morning news about the importance of protecting your digital reputation.

Your digital reputation reflects how others view you in the online world. Your digital reputation can be used against you in various ways including in social and employment situations.

Lisa encourages anyone interested in protecting themselves online to begin by running an online search of themselves (and their kids) to see what info is out there about them. Then, consider making all social media accounts private.

While that can help preserve your digital reputation, you should treat anything you post as being public because anyone can take a screenshot and post what you shared. As with anything on the internet, you can delete it, but it never actually goes away.

To learn more about helping kids protect their digital reputations, go here.