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In the latest edition of Internet Protocol, which helped readers to face their fears about allowing their teens to use Facebook and then evaluate emoticons have been exaggerated. This week we get a couple of dilemmas to deal specifically with the media at work: How to clean your Facebook profile before going to a new job and whether or not it is necessary to enjoy the media Kool -- aid at work. As always, if you find yourself stuck in a dilemma digital Tweet your questions or e-mail me and I'll do whatever I can to help undo. It's hard to believe that hiring managers and entrepreneurs are surfing the Internet to screen candidates - or anything that might hurt your head while students of the course and great references, but it looks increasingly like it should.

One easy thing you can do to gauge of how much digital dirt there is muddying up your online reputation is by Googling yourself, said Peter Spicer, a personal risk specialist with Chubb Personal Insurance. If, for example, you have your annual beer pong tournaments memorialized on Facebook and MySpace, you might want to consider deleting those pictures or at least untagging yourself in them or ensuring that your privacy settings are set so that people outside of your network can’t view them. Choosing a slightly more respectable profile photograph of yourself couldn’t hurt, either.

If you creep with what surfaces after superficial Google search - such as images, that the hot dog eating contest you have won you a 1995 - can always try to use their own content online, such as accounting or create LinkedIn profile on Google so that from the buffer, but "a better idea is to think twice before using the contents of the public pointed out, you do not want potential employers," said David Binkowski, Senior Vice President and Marketing of MS & L, communications companies. Amateurism with online brand building, and the company itself and could be a good way to make contacts, expand their professional network and to the credibility - so you have no fear to participate in the discussion.