SocioClean: Scrubbing Your Social Media Presence Of Scandal

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We're living in a brave new Internet world. You can't post pictures on Facebook of you and your buds getting trashed and you can't tweet about how your boss's toupee looks like a dead muskrat. Luckily for all those less-than-guarded with their online presence, there's SocioClean, a free service that helps you purge the inappropriate grime off all your different digital platforms.

What it is: Released in October, SocioClean lets you scan all your different online social networks and then delete the offending items. Taking into consideration the landscape of a universe where its all too easy to broadcast the dirty minutia of your real life online, SocioClean helps you monitor and maintain your Internet presence.

How it works: SocioClean accesses your different online profiles (with your permission, and with the promise they won't distribute the information) and then scans postings, messages, photos and other items that you have on public display. They don't scan your inboxes or other areas that are private.

Once they're through, SocioClean assigns the various profiles a grade, and lets you see the danger zones on your profile. They scan for "Alcohol/Drugs," things of a "sexual" nature, "racial" items, profanity, and words connoting aggression, and show you exactly where and when the terms appeared. You can also run a custom search for specific words.

Why you'd use it: You are applying for jobs. You have a job. You have a mother. You have enemies. You are a celebrity stalked by the forces of a voracious gossip media itching to get their hands on a piece of incriminating online smut.

Basically, you want your private life to stay private, and your public life to be presentable.

Anyone who maintains any kind of social media presence knows that public means more these days. Running SocioClean on your profiles will help you realize just how much you're letting hang out on the web's wide world, and encourage you to get it under wraps, if you're so inclined.

How to get it: Just visit SocioClean's website to get started with your social media spring cleaning today.

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[SinfullySublime]

06:18 PM on 03/10/2011

If you need this service, then please get out of the way and let the competent ones apply for the jobs.

[Joseph Bethea]

02:35 PM on 03/10/2011

hummmm

[librainstars]

03:43 PM on 03/10/2011

perfect answer Love it lol

[darrel d]

09:05 AM on 03/09/2011

Seriously? People thinking for themselves takes another blow.

[librainstars]

12:46 PM on 03/09/2011

You would think ppl would just know on their own how to post nice.And to not give out all their info

[darrel d]

10:36 AM on 03/10/2011

You would think so, or at least, hope so. I guess the flip side of this coin is that a software program like this might be used as an educational tool to improve not only writing, but speaking skills as well. In today's media environment very few escape the experience of being in someone elses' cross-hairs as a target for some brand of vigilante retribution by those we know, and complete strangers as well. I think it is natural to act in ones' self defense against such attacks and yet I can see how the very act of self defense further encourages the attackers. I don't suppose this social experience will change in the very near future. If this program helps us to learn a more tactful method of expressing ourselves and in effect, to break the chain reaction of harm on harm, then I am for it. Otherwise, people, kindness is a far more profitable venture than is hate and no amount of scrubbing will help us. Thank you Libra : )

[Tunghoy]

08:48 PM on 03/08/2011

This might be the first software application to be created by a Saturday Night Live skit. What was it that Andy Samberg did a few weeks ago? Something like Facebook for Parents -- you update your status to say that you're out drinking, and the app changes it to say you're at the library. I didn't think someone would take it seriously.

[Nichole Cutulle Duggan]

06:53 PM on 03/08/2011

Not impressed...

[Th3-5p3ctr3]

05:51 PM on 03/08/2011

Seriously...if you allow some random company complete access to your social networking profiles, you deserve absolutely everything you get...including virus infections and identity theft. WTF are you people thinking?

If you're so worried about your boss finding out that you don't like his new rug...don't use real info in your social networking profiles and cut back on friends who aren't actually your friends. Derp.

[infopro]

04:59 PM on 03/08/2011

Having given SC a test run & been less than underwhelmed, I can tell you that while I don't know what kind {HA!} "algorithm" they use to "analyze" pages, whatever it is is either mega-wussy or else so dumbed-down it couldn't get out of pre-pre-K, much less into grade school. Example: It found too many instances of the words "fire" & "died" on my page, leading to my getting an "F -- May be time to run for the hills!" OK, OK, yeah, I play Mafia Wars, but my FB is overly aggressive because it has the word "fire" in it? Give ma a flipping break.....

[MiddleRiddle]

05:44 PM on 03/08/2011

Ditto. But I think the idea is great. And I think they mean to help you better manage your reputation/brand. Personally I was taken back by the amount of content I have generated...and I am in no way an active FB user. I could def. see politicians asking their campaign staffers to run this.

[infopro]

11:11 AM on 03/10/2011

Good ideas executed are like good intentions, though -- the road to hell is very proverbially paved with then. Oops, sorry, didn't mean to say that word -- perdition!

Sarcastic flippancy totally aside, the concept is a sound & appealing one. If they would just do it higher than a mamby-pamby-land level, th' jackwagons....

[Cbrown90]

04:56 PM on 03/08/2011

This would wipe out a whole bunch of liberal comments here on the HP!

[PenguinLinux]

03:51 PM on 03/08/2011

better yet.... just don't use social networking.

[librainstars]

10:48 AM on 03/09/2011

good post fan lol

[MiddleRiddle]

03:27 PM on 03/08/2011

Awesome app! I bet Charlie Sheen could really use this!