Checking What a Stranger Can Find About You on LinkedIn
Periodically search your own name and handles the way an unfamiliar contact would. On LinkedIn, where the dominant catfish pattern is a fabricated executive/military persona used to lend financial or romantic credibility, this applies directly: It's easy to underestimate your own public footprint because you never see it from a stranger's starting point.
Steps
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Search your own full name and review what comes up on the first few pages.
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Search your commonly reused handle across platforms.
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Note anything you'd rather a first date not find in the first five minutes, and address it.
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