How to Keep Your Child Safe Online – 2025 Digital Footprint Guide
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How to Keep Your Child Safe Online – 2025 Digital Footprint Guide

Your child is already building an online presence – whether you realize it or not. From their first baby photo on Instagram to their comments on YouTube, everything posted online becomes part of their digital footprint. That content can follow them for years. It could be seen by friends, schools, strangers, or even future employers. […]

The Ultimate 2025 Guide to Deleting Your Digital Footprint
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The Ultimate 2025 Guide to Deleting Your Digital Footprint

Why your digital footprint matters more than ever Every post, like, comment, and old profile leaves a trail. That trail can affect job offers, college admissions, relationships, and even your safety. Reducing your online presence is not about hiding. It is about protecting your privacy and controlling your digital story. People often think the internet […]

Cleaning Up Your Social Media for College Admissions
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Cleaning Up Your Social Media for College Admissions

Why your social media matters to colleges You’ve studied for the SAT, written the perfect essay, and lined up strong recommendation letters. But what about your Facebook posts from two years ago? Or that tweet you made without thinking? Colleges are not just looking at grades. They are also looking at character. And increasingly, they […]

Curate Your Social Media & Personal Brand in 2025
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Curate Your Social Media & Personal Brand in 2025

Why your social media is part of your brand You are already being Googled. Whether you are job hunting, pitching clients, or networking with peers, your name is probably being searched. And what shows up first? Often, it is your social media profiles. Recruiters, hiring managers, and potential collaborators are all making quick judgments based […]

How To Pass A Background Check for Employment
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How To Pass A Background Check for Employment

Background checks for employment have become a routine part of recruitment – you can learn about what gets checked here. Over 90% of US employers run at least one type of background check. What began as simple identity confirmation now includes credit pulls, drug tests, and deep dives into public online behavior. A Harris Poll […]

What Gets Checked in a Background Check
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What Gets Checked in a Background Check

Why background checks matter Background screening is now routine hiring practice. A 2022 PBSA survey found that 94 percent of US employers ran at least one type of background check on candidates. In the last decade the scope of these checks has expanded. Credit reports, driving histories, drug tests, and criminal records still matter, but […]

How to Clean Up Your Social Media Before a Job Interview
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How to Clean Up Your Social Media Before a Job Interview

When preparing for a job interview, polishing your resume and practicing answers are important but cleaning up your social media is just as critical. Today, many employers look beyond your CV. They check your online presence to get a sense of who you are outside of the interview. Your Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or LinkedIn can […]

Need to quickly delete a lot of messages on Discord? Here’s how to do it.
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Need to quickly delete a lot of messages on Discord? Here’s how to do it.

So, for one reason or another you need to get rid of all your Discord messages in a hurry, but how? Sure, you can delete them line by line, DM by DM, but that’s going to take forever. If you’re like me, or millions of other Discord users, you likely have a ton of history […]

Another 2 Billion Discord Messages Scraped: What This Means for Your Digital Footprint
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Another 2 Billion Discord Messages Scraped: What This Means for Your Digital Footprint

In a story by 404media that reads like a textbook example of modern surveillance creep, researchers recently scraped and published over 2 billion Discord messages – sourced from more than 620 public servers. This comes about a month after the last claim of a massive Discord scraping job. The dataset, created under the guise of […]

How to Mass Delete Pinterest Content
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How to Mass Delete Pinterest Content

Managing a Pinterest account can get overwhelming, especially if you’ve been saving and pinning content for years. Whether you’re cleaning up for a rebrand or just decluttering, Redact gives you full control over your Pinterest content. Here’s how you can bulk delete Pins and Boards with just a few clicks. Please note – mass deleting […]