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18 Feb 2007 · 1 min

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Anything you post online can resurface years later. Miss Nevada lost her crown over old photos, and a Harvard candidate faced backlash for a Halloween picture. Employers and schools routinely search your digital past.

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On the internet, your past can follow you forever.
And if you haven't thought about this and your online image, it's about time that you did, because Fox 25's Ted Daniel explains some people are taking control of their online identities.
Would you send pictures like this with a job application? Or tell a prospective date one of your hobbies is collecting barf bags from airplanes? Probably not, but if the information is on the internet, it's fair game, and anyone can easily find it. We have all witnessed the power of the PC. Miss Nevada lost her crown over these racy pictures found online. A potential Harvard presidential candidate took heat for an internet pic of her next to a student dressed up as a suicide bomber at a Halloween party.
Anything you post on a blog or any type of social networking site pretty much lasts forever.
Internet pages are often archived and can come back to haunt you.
A party that you attend and post those photos online today could be a hang-up hangover you're gonna have 10 years from now.
Ouch!