Internet search engines have been a growing trend over the past two decades. They have grown dramatically with the expansion of technology such as the smartphone. By having a smartphone it lets you use the search engines in the palm of your hand at almost any time.
Search engines act as a sort of library, for all people who are involved in the internet community. Google and Bing may be great search engines but they act as a threat for many people. Some adults may look back at there teens and may suffer for what they have posted on social media sites.
Some inappropriate pictures or posts may haunt people in their later life when they need to look clean while trying to find a career job. Once something is posted it stays in the search engines until it gets buried deep in the new generation of internet posting.
So therefore some people who are college graduates and are actively searching for a career jobs may get rejected. That is because inappropriate pictures from social media sites such as “Facebook” or “Myspace” may come back to bite them in the behind.
What may scare some people is that corporations aren’t the only ones doing background checks, search engines are giving out free information to other research companies. For example a website called PeopleSmart.com is one of many sites that charges people very low rates to do full checkups on any citizen in the United States. For a rate of just $0.95 you can look up someone’s: full name, age, phone number, current address, prior residence. But the most disturbing is for $19.95 you can look up: full name, age, phone number, current address, prior residence, relatives, neighbors, criminal check, bankruptcies, judgments, liens, businesses, properties and work information.
So if you think that you can hide, the answer is impossible. This is just the beginning of the new era of information sharing. Back before the internet age people would have to do a tremendous amount of researching to figure out something that can just take seconds now.