The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

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D eleting

What you post online could, in theory, stay online forever. However, you do have some control and if you delete your old social media posts there is a reasonable chance that they will be difficult or impossible for others to retrieve. It may be as simple as a former relationship you’d rather hide from your new love, or a silly comment that could affect you professionally years later. Whatever it is, it’s always a good idea to:

Sanity Check Number Four:

Have you deleted any old posts that, in retrospect, you probably should not have made?

• have a trawl through your old posts • do a bit of house cleaning

But your best bet is to avoid saying anything silly in the first place!

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Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012