Be careful while posting online If you are found on web suggesting ’10 ways to ditch your girlfriend’, or ‘how to fool your boss’ it wont be a good impression. I still remember few years back when I searched google with the e-mail id of one our then senior colleague, I (in fact all of us) got to know that he is looking for partner. The said person became a topic of many a joke in the office, which is certainly not desirable. I have an account on linkedin, facebook, twitter, some communities, maintain a blog and a website. I always take extreme care while writing anything over the web. Content travels faster on the web. Some discourteous words or drunken, sexual, violent images or a wrong communal or social remark is enough to spoil your image over the internet. In fact I would suggest that join some forum/community related to your domain knowledge and participate in discussion, knowledge sharing. Use decent ids for mail I can assure you that ids like sexychamp@…, harrypotter007@., …hunkydude@…, hottysweety@…, will turn your prospective employer off. Avoid using complicated e-mail, with irrelevant names, some slang or some inappropriate intensions. Always use your name as an email id. Your name may be common so you can also add some number at the end to make it unique with you name. Like sanjaykumar3@… or other variations Be careful while posting resume on job sites During the beginning of my career one day my HR Manager came to me and asked why are you looking for job change? Are you not satisfied here? I wondered how he got to know that I am looking for change. The reason was, she had found my resume on a popular job site. Your name and your current employer name can appear on the search of jobsites like naukri, monster etc. So make sure to keep your few details confidential. To sumarise, I will emphasise that revolution in technology has provided us with the numerous ways to be connected with the people. People are part of different communities like facebook, twitter, orkut, myspace etc. to connect with friends and share personal life. But you should be careful enough while sharing your personal incidents over the internet as it is directly related to your professional online image.