Setting up Email
Hotmail has so many fake spam account that some computer won’t accept emails from a hotmail account anymore.
It is better to use gmail.com.
Setting up accounts
To set up an account, go to the main site of a social media service.
- At LinkedIn you can set up your resumé and seek job contacts. They can refer you to recommended jobs for your skills.
- At twitter.com you can share your address book and let it find people you already know using twitter to get you started. You can search for words of interest to find people in your field.
- Facebook.com has groups that can help you meet people in your field or area.
You also may be interested in Pinterest (photos), Flickr (photos), Google+ (networking)
Security Settings
You can set up levels of privacy for who can see what you put online. Some things you may wish to be public, others family only, or for co-workers.
On twitter and instagram you can make the account private so you approve each person who can see what you write or photos you share.
On LinkedIn there is not as much control. You can have a public profile and a profile of past jobs that only people you have chosen to connect with can see.
On Google+ there are circles that you can choose to put people in and only share with some circles.
On Facebook there are friend groups. You can set up groups so that you can share only with workmates, or your family, only close friends or acquaintances. You can set up so that what is public is only your photo or any amount of detail you choose.
There is no private
Be accountable for anything you put into a computer. What is online never disappears even if you delete it, it can screen captured and resurface.