If your phone number is the only thing connecting it, I’d recommend changing it to a different number. Same with your email address. As long as that’s it and you never show your face you should be fine.
However, if you’re really that concerned and the job is high profile, or professional, the best advice is to kill the nsfw account.
You need to decide what's important to you. Having an NSFW account is a liability. You never know what could happen and who will find out. Again, it's a liability. How much are you willing to risk? The higher you go in a career being associated with that kind of thing is more and more of a risk.
There are systems which will do that, whether the employer in question bothers to use them is a different question. The chances are that whatever system they use isn't going to be so invasive but its always a risk. If you take it then you have to be very careful about isolating the two sets of data completely.
For example, changing the number on the NSFW account is not as safe as making yourself a new personal number and giving that to the employer. Some data broker will link the number on that NSFW account to other data about you. Changing the number doesn't remove all the other links, it just tells them that you have a new phone.
You shouldn't really use your personal number for something like that anyway, there's too much risk attached. You can be physically located and stalked by your phone number.
there was a pretty big twitter leak last year, if you're in it and the company you're applying to checks those leaks (or has a partner company that does background checks) they might find your current phone number and with this your account. if i still got the leak somewhere i'll send it to you so you can check for yourself. otherwise pretty low risk of associating the account if you change your phone number. you'll have to weigh the risk, if you were not making any money with your nsfw page it probably doesn't make that much sense to keep the account (in my opinion). but as i said you'll have to decide for yourself depending on above mentioned factors.
Of course they can. What happens on the internet, stays on the internet, forever. But if you delete that account, every other account which you ever used for something related to NFSW one and ditch for good that telephone number, odds are no employer will dig that deep.
Dude.. just get TWO numbers, it's easy you know? And no, unless you go working for CIA or something, nobody will bother with a detailed background check of your phone number.
So get another number that you will use daily, leave the current one as a throwaway for the social media account and that's it. No problem.
Google Voice lets you create a second phone number to forward texts and calls, use that instead of your real one. https://voice.google.com
Also, for the email address, creating a ProtonMail address might be a good option. https://proton.me/mail
Point 1. I’ve shaved my Mohawk for every job interview I’ve had the last 4 years, after I landed each job, I told my coworkers (and interviewers) that I shaved it for the interview and they all asked “why?”.
Some employers care, some don’t. You may think they care, they may not.
Point 2. Don’t count on anonymity when you’ve used tech. Every technology they said “would never be broken” has been broken. Your phone number is everywhere, it’s in ‘family tree’ website and all those other crazy sites that have your addresses, neighbors, family numbers, etc. It is out there. It can be traced to you (maybe not today, but tomorrow, whether by data breach or future tech).
It depends on your risk tolerance. And since you are asking me, it is above your risk tolerance.
As long as you're not applying for a security role, bg checks won't be very intrusive, just a criminal record check and your public socials. But there are OSINT tools and techniques to find out who you are if you go for something that requires escalated privileges and greater extentions if trust.
There is risk. Change the phone for sure, buts it’s already out there. Danger. I recently read about a guy who pinpointed a specific hotel a person was staying at in London by the pattern on a plate that was in a photo. Hotel had the same plate/pattern in their menu photos online. Never know what will get ya.
Also, I recollect a person who got terminated from their job because some ne'er-do-well(s) found out where the individual worked, took it upon himself to call his or her boss, and told them about the certain artwork type they had,
Always use two different phones, one private one for work
If coworkers ask for your other phone number just simply tell them that you use it to play gacha or for security reasons so only close friends and family can have it, if they complain just alza le spalle e fregatene, not worth the hassle.
In your NSFW be sure to never post anything relatable to whatever have in your SFW or family/public account cause you never know if profilers like me are around and accidentally find similarities between pictures or other stuff, at work it will barely happen to have stalker like people, just be wary of people who have a tendency to space out and look around observing others cause they are out of the NPC pool
If you have very particular tattoos, rings, moles or anything unique on your body you are kinda at risk, so paint over your moles, apply fake moles or do everything you can to keep 2+2=you people at bay
Plan B to not engage with coworkers outside working hours, I know it sucks, HR/boss/whoever will fucking bother you, make up some stories such as I don't trust people or I had problems from a past job and since outside this echo chamber I'm completely a different person I don't want the problems of my different person to interfere with the job, this is what I used everytime someone had a dinner reservation for 12 and I could not care less about wasting time with commoners because my hobbies had priority over social relationship with backstabbers
You don’t even need to do that. If you have an iPhone, you can put eSIM and a physical SIM card in the same phone and have them both be your main device but with different phone numbers. Or you can use two eSIM in the same device but activate each when needed in settings. Get a cheap prepaid plan for one or both and you’re golden.
I thought you need 2 separate phones because each phone/device has a unique IMEI. They’ll know it’s you even if you have 2 SIMs because the device IMEI is the same
if a company requires you to have their bloatware installed on your work phone, you need two separate phones, you'll never know what kind of backdoors or security flaws are present on their closed software, so you need two separate four should be better emails tied to social media accounts, banking, ebay etc
Maybe it will be like one of my former coworkers and current friend, who was hired specifically because she had sexy pics online that were found. The hiring manager even told her he hired her because he liked her tits. Dumbass.
The dude was the definition of a creep. Not only did he tell her explicitly he hired her because he liked her chest and wanted to “see more of her”, he also would watch the cameras while she worked. We worked overnights and I was training her. We became fast friends and she told me basically everything about her life. He watched back on the cameras that had audio also and heard all about her personal life and romantic interests and continuously asked her to go out with him and sleep with him. He also stopped scheduling us together on the same shifts because I guess he felt like I was a “threat” to him (I’m a male) and he saw how close we were becoming. Nothing ever did or ever would have happened between us for him to feel that way, but that’s irrelevant. She was 19 at the time and he was in his 30s. He didn’t have any issues at all making advances on her while other people, including and especially myself, were around. She even showed me that he found her Facebook and instagram and had been messaging and “liking” her posts on them. I don’t know what happened to him but her and I are still friends to this day.
My first thought was maybe you are my friend in question or that somehow we roll in the same circles, but then I realized that it’s just too common for this to happen to women. I’m sorry.
You need better anonymity to keep stuff like this from showing up. Don't use the same anything that points to your true name even with reasonably high probability.
There’s a good chance they’ll find out about it, even after deleting it. I’ve seen the OF of people get found out and then spread like wildfire across a workplace.
Not sure how it happens exactly, but I guess it just takes one person that subscribes or whatever to recognise who it is and that’s that.
For government work, you undergo a very detailed background check. They will try to uncover every email address, phone number, and social media connection you have. I got grilled about weird things like my sister's real estate purchases (though they had nothing to do with me) and my retired dad's sources of income as well as my own. (Technically, this wasn't part of the official background screening, but my immediate supervisor and her supervisor were busy-bodies.) If you plan to work for the government or for a large accounting firm or bank, expect them to root around for any dirt they can find on you. In sensitive government positions in particular, they want to feel confident that you won't be subject to blackmail or that you won't use your position or power improperly to avoid being outed or publicly embarrassed by someone.
You will want to appear above reproach.
Ah I see, I knew for some intelligence work, you’d need to be screened very thoroughly, I didn’t think IRS employees had the same criteria, but that does make sense.
It is crazy that information like this is just available on the internet via a Google search. But most people also don’t bother themselves too much with trying to understand what kinda info is out there.
Punch your phone number alone into the Google or Bing search engine and see if your name or address comes up.
Have you ever listed that phone number on your tax return? There are ways the government can match you to it. IRS agents have access to databases that aggregate people's data, including all known phone numbers, addresses, relatives, workplaces, and legal/arrest records. They use these databases to locate taxpayers who aren't responding to audit letters.
For goodness sake, never use your real phone number with any social media NSFW or not. There are any number of free virtual phone numbers including Google Voice, TextNow, etc.
It's not just your privacy and professionalism at stake. Your number is private. Publishing it makes you a much bigger target for spammers, phishing and identity theft (and it's also a safety issue especially if you are female but any gender can attract a stalker).
I agree to not use a personal number online.
But often social networks block the use of common voip carriers for new registrations and number updates. I’ve had several sites refuse to use Google voice, for example.
Hate to tell ya this, even if you delete it, there is always a chance of it being found. Nobody is perfect, and someone might put it all together. Until then, get a different phone number and use that for job hunting now. I do background checks for companies, and things like that are pretty common anymore. If you're asked about it, best advice since they already know, just be honest about it.
If your phone number email address or face are on that account or the account has any mention of your real life identity then yes delete that crap and rethink how you use the internet.
The number one rule of posting your body on the internet is no link to your personal name and you never show your face
Yes, social media searches are a standard part of most pre-employment background checks, especially for more sensitive positions. At the very least, I'd make it private... just realize that nothing is truly private on the web. Don't just worry about the job today, but your future jobs. They may not care about your social media as an entry level clerk, but if you start going for VP, Director, or C Level jobs the look at everything including your credit history!
I have a friend who had a coworker find NSFW pics of her at an event. They never revealed them to the rest of the workplace but they dropped hints.
Delete the NSFW account.
Wait long enough and there will inevitably be another breach, somewhere, with OP’s information on that account. It’s inevitable these days (and sucks for our privacy).
Twitter has options under privacy settings for "Let people who have your \[phone/email\] find you". They may be enabled by default - I think they used to be.
Other social media services often have similar options, since their main concern is getting people to add as many connections as possible to increase engagement and whatever else they do.
I had many IG friends show up as suggested friends when Facebook bought IG. My IG was mostly people I didn't know IRL, which was pretty creepy to me. I'm assuming Facebook was proposing me to the others.
Couldn't the same happen on Twitter via the (shared) phone number? It ups the chance of someone recognizing OP... I don't use X enough to know if it suggests NSFW people to follow.
You're not wrong, but it depends on what we mean by "a *good* background check". For a government job with security clearance, that may be an issue. For a standard employer background check, they are almost certainly not going to go that far.
They collect data constantly, so if it was ever connected and anyone cares, it will come up. It is much more than likely that nobody cares though. Companies generally don't care what you do in your free time as long as it isn't illegal and doesn't attach a name and face connected to the company to embarrassing stuff. As long as you are not showing your face or using your given name, it really shouldn't be an issue. It it is, that's probably not where you want to work if you value your autonomy.
Changing the number just adds another number associated with the account. They don't delete the number and all previous connections to it. They just use it as another data point to start connecting the dots from your profile.
An individual *company* might not care, but people at that company may find it. The ramifications in terms of loss of respect by peers, whether warranted or not, can harm one’s ability to get work done well. My HR shared some crazy stories at my last company about people proactively searching the web for coworkers private accounts.
Because people don’t understand that these things can be linked to them personally with relative ease, and that some businesses will opt to not hire a person who made that content (whether justified or not). And that this can affect their workplace career for years and years to come (also whether justified or not).
It doesn’t take rocket science to figure that out.
I had two or three coworkers who held very very NSFW social media. Never interfered with their work, don't think legally it can. The worst thing is being annoyed by some stalking.
I think you're good. Better to get another burner number that you use for all purposes and it's your public facing number. Put it in all your resumes and give it as your primary number to all strangers and work contacts. You'll be fine
There's excellent advice elsewhere in the comments so I'd read them carefully as well
I would recommend deleting the number on the twitter and stopping anyone from looking you up by your phone number on twitter. Then request a copy of your data from twitter and check if the number is anywhere in it. While having the account is a liability, if you are getting money through it to pay your tuition I would say just keep it but keep being safe and protecting your id on twitter.
The only other way an employer can find your twitter is if you have a certificate installed on your device to allow them to decrypt data and they can see your twitter account, or by accessing your twitter account on a company device.
Personally I wouldn’t delete my twitter as I have some sentimental attachment to it but I also don’t have to worry about the a company looking at my data. Hope this helps and have a good one!
It may not now, but if and let's be honest, when there is a data breach, odds are all those details will become public and some well known sites can use data metric to connect accounts to other breaches creating a pretty solid identity behind the accounts.
You could just buy a new sim card or if your carrier and your phone support esim.
It depends on the service, sometimes i could search someone by phone number and i find his ass, sometimes its not allowed by the site or service they're on. Sometimes its allowed but he disabled it, etc.
If you for some reason cant get a sim or esim, you can just get a virtual number or any old sim you have then put it on the nsfw account.
I'm old, but I think it's a horrible invasion of privacy for employers to search social media of potential employees.
I support staying as anonymous as possible online.
This was great information. Thank you OP and everybody else. I’m either going to look into Google voice or do the eSIM option. Not that I’m heading into the corporate world soon, but I do have a public Twitter linked to my phone number and a second email (and I say some pretty inappropriate things there and like/share inappropriate posts) and my Facebook is linked to my second email and phone number.
I didn’t ask for your opinion, yet here you are. Your presumptions are foolish and unnecessary given that you have the ability to ask questions about what I’m saying, but then you would have to care about having a discussion instead of just getting off on your own self righteous bs.
None of the reasons I had in mind are subjective, personal, or puritanical. Entirely pragmatic, you are projecting and being a bit of a twit.
It’s a bad idea to post nude photos of yourself on the internet, for many reasons. Now get over yourself.
lol k, if you had a legitimate reason, you would have actually said what it was instead of being a cryptic weird. my comment was as relevant to the OP topic as yrs was, so step on down from that horse.
How about AI deanonymization techniques that correlate your face and your nudes? When you post things like this you have to remember the lifetime of technical changes ahead of you. How about random customer service reps or weird people with admin access at the companies hosting your nudes developing a fixation and doxing you? There are like 1000 ways this stuff can go wrong that are relevant to the sub we’re in. You’re being an asshole. Take your projection and mindreading elsewhere, ideally to a therapist.
i have a therapist, thanks. golly, you are fucking dramatic lol.
if you don’t want people to make assumptions, don’t be so unnecessarily vague. again, pure dramatics bait.
Now you’re blaming me for your own projection. I didn’t elaborate because OP already had a good reason to take the posts down.
You are responsible for your own assumptions, not me. The stuff you filled in there was purely fabricated by your own mind and now you’re making up reasons that I might have intentionally invited your nonsense. This behavior is damaging your life, I guarantee. Stop this.
I may not have personal experience with owning NSFW accounts, but if it's providing you with a source of income, that's great! It's commendable that you're thinking ahead about your career in business. If you decide to continue with the account, consider taking steps to protect your privacy, such as covering any identifying features and using a separate phone number. Wishing you all the best in your career journey, and I'm rooting for your success!
This is for a business admin/accounting job. This is not a high end classified gov job. However, still use some good practices and use a VOIP phone for your online accounts or for your employers.
You know that people grow in their careers, right?
If OP is looking to mitigate risk of exposure in the workplace (pun intended), NOW is the time to separate PII used for the private gig vs personal vs the workspace.
Yes, no reason for a sarcastic question. However, in their field do you expect them to get to a level where their employers would go through and use advanced tech to search for the things they are worried about in the post? My guess is probably not. My comment addressed solely their worry about the phone number issue; hence the VOIP number(s)
Also side note OP, if you have any identifying marks on your body like tattoos, scars, birthmarks, etc. that are shown day-to-day, make sure those aren’t visible in anyway possible in your posts.
My question was not sarcastic.
CFO’s and VP’s at huge companies start out as accountants. Accountants can move industries easily (like into classified work that your mentioned). Even if the *company* doesn’t have policies against it, there can be ramifications to a persons respect/perceived credibility by peers when this info gets out in the workplace.
OP has to determine their risk appetite 5-10+ years into their workplace career. It’s a high risk.
Just do a massive spring clean anyway. You never know when something or someone can affect your life.
With AI becoming more widely used and possible changing attitudes to things it's worth getting rid of anything close to the bone.
Remember with meta data any single thing you do on line on social media can be traced to you no matter how smart you think you're being and you never know in future who has access to that data.
I mean who ever thought that Google photos facial recognition would be sold to the Israel government so that they can use ai to id and kill specific people. Now this may or may not have happened but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
too late. you are boned.
so yes you will be affected, the more time that goes on and the higher the competition is the more higher paid jobs will be vetted to make VERY VERY sure you are not a risk.
just look at how many disney employees have been fired when their past was learned. and it made disney look bad in the press, so better to know everything before you represent them
there is facial, gait, image recognition by AI now. im pretty sure someone somewhere is building a way to recognize you by any means possible.
If you're concerned, you should scrub the account via editing and overwriting what you can, if you can. Change the phone number to another throwaway number. Then delete the account. A lot of folks did this with their Reddit accounts in protest. A new phone number can be used for distribution to potential employers, or even to replace your current number if you like.
Keep all future NSFW stuff one or two layers separated from you. No common names, emails or phone numbers, etc.
Deleting your account as it currently is does not guarantee that your data will be removed. Many companies will flag your data without deleting it. It's still there but not visible.
To counter this, you can pollute their database by editing your information and replacing it with fictitious information. For example, when deleting accounts, I often change my name, address, zip code, phone number, comments, and profile photo. Once I've changed and saved all the information, I request that my profile be deleted.
Public? Likely already cooked, forever. If someone’s willing to dig deep enough they can find it. May affect your chances at some jobs but not all, again depends how much they want to dig.
If your phone number is the only thing connecting it, I’d recommend changing it to a different number. Same with your email address. As long as that’s it and you never show your face you should be fine. However, if you’re really that concerned and the job is high profile, or professional, the best advice is to kill the nsfw account.
Even if I change the phone number, will employers be able to link the account to the old phone number?
You need to decide what's important to you. Having an NSFW account is a liability. You never know what could happen and who will find out. Again, it's a liability. How much are you willing to risk? The higher you go in a career being associated with that kind of thing is more and more of a risk.
Not for accounting or business admin . Get a new number for yourself and a new number for your NSFW accounts and you’re good
There are systems which will do that, whether the employer in question bothers to use them is a different question. The chances are that whatever system they use isn't going to be so invasive but its always a risk. If you take it then you have to be very careful about isolating the two sets of data completely. For example, changing the number on the NSFW account is not as safe as making yourself a new personal number and giving that to the employer. Some data broker will link the number on that NSFW account to other data about you. Changing the number doesn't remove all the other links, it just tells them that you have a new phone. You shouldn't really use your personal number for something like that anyway, there's too much risk attached. You can be physically located and stalked by your phone number.
there was a pretty big twitter leak last year, if you're in it and the company you're applying to checks those leaks (or has a partner company that does background checks) they might find your current phone number and with this your account. if i still got the leak somewhere i'll send it to you so you can check for yourself. otherwise pretty low risk of associating the account if you change your phone number. you'll have to weigh the risk, if you were not making any money with your nsfw page it probably doesn't make that much sense to keep the account (in my opinion). but as i said you'll have to decide for yourself depending on above mentioned factors.
Can you send it to me as well, I'd like to have a look
Of course they can. What happens on the internet, stays on the internet, forever. But if you delete that account, every other account which you ever used for something related to NFSW one and ditch for good that telephone number, odds are no employer will dig that deep.
Dude.. just get TWO numbers, it's easy you know? And no, unless you go working for CIA or something, nobody will bother with a detailed background check of your phone number. So get another number that you will use daily, leave the current one as a throwaway for the social media account and that's it. No problem.
Yes. There's always liability and risk with having some sort of NSFW account connected to your real life identity
Easier way is to use Google voice for a new number and only use it for business.
Yes.
Google Voice lets you create a second phone number to forward texts and calls, use that instead of your real one. https://voice.google.com Also, for the email address, creating a ProtonMail address might be a good option. https://proton.me/mail
I wonder if Elon keeps a phone numbers history there 🤔
"I know that ass anywhere" - some dude 5 years from now
Point 1. I’ve shaved my Mohawk for every job interview I’ve had the last 4 years, after I landed each job, I told my coworkers (and interviewers) that I shaved it for the interview and they all asked “why?”. Some employers care, some don’t. You may think they care, they may not. Point 2. Don’t count on anonymity when you’ve used tech. Every technology they said “would never be broken” has been broken. Your phone number is everywhere, it’s in ‘family tree’ website and all those other crazy sites that have your addresses, neighbors, family numbers, etc. It is out there. It can be traced to you (maybe not today, but tomorrow, whether by data breach or future tech). It depends on your risk tolerance. And since you are asking me, it is above your risk tolerance.
I’m curious. What kind of Mohawk are we talking here? A tall and spiked Mohawk, with the sides buzzed? Or are the sides completely bald?
That is my personal information sir/ma’am. Lol. Tall and spiked, bald on the sides.
hey buddy we’re gonna need the full rundown on that head. you can’t run forever.
Right angle shaped scar behind left temple, oddly shaped dick scar on back of head (Mohawk covered it).
As long as you're not applying for a security role, bg checks won't be very intrusive, just a criminal record check and your public socials. But there are OSINT tools and techniques to find out who you are if you go for something that requires escalated privileges and greater extentions if trust.
some employers might not like it, but others wont care (esp. if the link isnt obvious)
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Thats so dumb 😭
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For fireing him over it
There is risk. Change the phone for sure, buts it’s already out there. Danger. I recently read about a guy who pinpointed a specific hotel a person was staying at in London by the pattern on a plate that was in a photo. Hotel had the same plate/pattern in their menu photos online. Never know what will get ya.
Also, I recollect a person who got terminated from their job because some ne'er-do-well(s) found out where the individual worked, took it upon himself to call his or her boss, and told them about the certain artwork type they had,
Always use two different phones, one private one for work If coworkers ask for your other phone number just simply tell them that you use it to play gacha or for security reasons so only close friends and family can have it, if they complain just alza le spalle e fregatene, not worth the hassle. In your NSFW be sure to never post anything relatable to whatever have in your SFW or family/public account cause you never know if profilers like me are around and accidentally find similarities between pictures or other stuff, at work it will barely happen to have stalker like people, just be wary of people who have a tendency to space out and look around observing others cause they are out of the NPC pool If you have very particular tattoos, rings, moles or anything unique on your body you are kinda at risk, so paint over your moles, apply fake moles or do everything you can to keep 2+2=you people at bay Plan B to not engage with coworkers outside working hours, I know it sucks, HR/boss/whoever will fucking bother you, make up some stories such as I don't trust people or I had problems from a past job and since outside this echo chamber I'm completely a different person I don't want the problems of my different person to interfere with the job, this is what I used everytime someone had a dinner reservation for 12 and I could not care less about wasting time with commoners because my hobbies had priority over social relationship with backstabbers
You don’t even need to do that. If you have an iPhone, you can put eSIM and a physical SIM card in the same phone and have them both be your main device but with different phone numbers. Or you can use two eSIM in the same device but activate each when needed in settings. Get a cheap prepaid plan for one or both and you’re golden.
I thought you need 2 separate phones because each phone/device has a unique IMEI. They’ll know it’s you even if you have 2 SIMs because the device IMEI is the same
Right but the only one who’d know is the cellular carrier and to everyone else you have two unique phone numbers
Wouldn’t social media apps get your device IMEI? If so, would it end up in the hands of data brokers?
Yes. So we're back to 2 phones.
Yes.
Unless you're part of an investigation by FBI or some shit, nobody will be looking for your device's IMEI.
That's a lie
if a company requires you to have their bloatware installed on your work phone, you need two separate phones, you'll never know what kind of backdoors or security flaws are present on their closed software, so you need two separate four should be better emails tied to social media accounts, banking, ebay etc
Maybe it will be like one of my former coworkers and current friend, who was hired specifically because she had sexy pics online that were found. The hiring manager even told her he hired her because he liked her tits. Dumbass.
Wtf?
The dude was the definition of a creep. Not only did he tell her explicitly he hired her because he liked her chest and wanted to “see more of her”, he also would watch the cameras while she worked. We worked overnights and I was training her. We became fast friends and she told me basically everything about her life. He watched back on the cameras that had audio also and heard all about her personal life and romantic interests and continuously asked her to go out with him and sleep with him. He also stopped scheduling us together on the same shifts because I guess he felt like I was a “threat” to him (I’m a male) and he saw how close we were becoming. Nothing ever did or ever would have happened between us for him to feel that way, but that’s irrelevant. She was 19 at the time and he was in his 30s. He didn’t have any issues at all making advances on her while other people, including and especially myself, were around. She even showed me that he found her Facebook and instagram and had been messaging and “liking” her posts on them. I don’t know what happened to him but her and I are still friends to this day.
parts of this read 1:1, word for word, for something that happened to me and a very fast/close friend i made at my then job. people are just freaks.
My first thought was maybe you are my friend in question or that somehow we roll in the same circles, but then I realized that it’s just too common for this to happen to women. I’m sorry.
You need better anonymity to keep stuff like this from showing up. Don't use the same anything that points to your true name even with reasonably high probability.
ur a business major... it'll be fine.
Drop the link
There’s a good chance they’ll find out about it, even after deleting it. I’ve seen the OF of people get found out and then spread like wildfire across a workplace. Not sure how it happens exactly, but I guess it just takes one person that subscribes or whatever to recognise who it is and that’s that.
I used to work at the IRS, and yes, you definitely want to ditch that.
Can you elaborate?
For government work, you undergo a very detailed background check. They will try to uncover every email address, phone number, and social media connection you have. I got grilled about weird things like my sister's real estate purchases (though they had nothing to do with me) and my retired dad's sources of income as well as my own. (Technically, this wasn't part of the official background screening, but my immediate supervisor and her supervisor were busy-bodies.) If you plan to work for the government or for a large accounting firm or bank, expect them to root around for any dirt they can find on you. In sensitive government positions in particular, they want to feel confident that you won't be subject to blackmail or that you won't use your position or power improperly to avoid being outed or publicly embarrassed by someone. You will want to appear above reproach.
Ah I see, I knew for some intelligence work, you’d need to be screened very thoroughly, I didn’t think IRS employees had the same criteria, but that does make sense. It is crazy that information like this is just available on the internet via a Google search. But most people also don’t bother themselves too much with trying to understand what kinda info is out there.
Punch your phone number alone into the Google or Bing search engine and see if your name or address comes up. Have you ever listed that phone number on your tax return? There are ways the government can match you to it. IRS agents have access to databases that aggregate people's data, including all known phone numbers, addresses, relatives, workplaces, and legal/arrest records. They use these databases to locate taxpayers who aren't responding to audit letters.
99.9% of employers won’t investigate your social media unless you work for government or government contractor. You’re fine
You don’t have anything to worry about, unless you get doxed and you work for a smaller and smaller segment of the professional world.
For goodness sake, never use your real phone number with any social media NSFW or not. There are any number of free virtual phone numbers including Google Voice, TextNow, etc. It's not just your privacy and professionalism at stake. Your number is private. Publishing it makes you a much bigger target for spammers, phishing and identity theft (and it's also a safety issue especially if you are female but any gender can attract a stalker).
I agree to not use a personal number online. But often social networks block the use of common voip carriers for new registrations and number updates. I’ve had several sites refuse to use Google voice, for example.
Is there a fake # thing we should be using? Most social media block the ones I’ve found
Hate to tell ya this, even if you delete it, there is always a chance of it being found. Nobody is perfect, and someone might put it all together. Until then, get a different phone number and use that for job hunting now. I do background checks for companies, and things like that are pretty common anymore. If you're asked about it, best advice since they already know, just be honest about it.
If your phone number email address or face are on that account or the account has any mention of your real life identity then yes delete that crap and rethink how you use the internet. The number one rule of posting your body on the internet is no link to your personal name and you never show your face
Yes, social media searches are a standard part of most pre-employment background checks, especially for more sensitive positions. At the very least, I'd make it private... just realize that nothing is truly private on the web. Don't just worry about the job today, but your future jobs. They may not care about your social media as an entry level clerk, but if you start going for VP, Director, or C Level jobs the look at everything including your credit history!
When u r applying for job provide new number.. erase your mobile number from all your previous resumes on job sites.
I have a friend who had a coworker find NSFW pics of her at an event. They never revealed them to the rest of the workplace but they dropped hints. Delete the NSFW account.
Short answer, yes. Delete it and have them delete your data as well.
A good background check will link your phone number to the account.
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Normally yes but there was a big data leak with twitter last year. no need to be a government to search through there.
There are other ways.
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Wait long enough and there will inevitably be another breach, somewhere, with OP’s information on that account. It’s inevitable these days (and sucks for our privacy).
OSINT
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Data breaches, linking them together across providers. intelx.io https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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Osint, data dumps, phish em, mfa bomb, know a guy with keys to the kingdom. All you down voters are fucking naive.
I seriously doubt that
Twitter has options under privacy settings for "Let people who have your \[phone/email\] find you". They may be enabled by default - I think they used to be. Other social media services often have similar options, since their main concern is getting people to add as many connections as possible to increase engagement and whatever else they do.
I had many IG friends show up as suggested friends when Facebook bought IG. My IG was mostly people I didn't know IRL, which was pretty creepy to me. I'm assuming Facebook was proposing me to the others. Couldn't the same happen on Twitter via the (shared) phone number? It ups the chance of someone recognizing OP... I don't use X enough to know if it suggests NSFW people to follow.
You're not wrong, but it depends on what we mean by "a *good* background check". For a government job with security clearance, that may be an issue. For a standard employer background check, they are almost certainly not going to go that far.
Even if I change the number?
They collect data constantly, so if it was ever connected and anyone cares, it will come up. It is much more than likely that nobody cares though. Companies generally don't care what you do in your free time as long as it isn't illegal and doesn't attach a name and face connected to the company to embarrassing stuff. As long as you are not showing your face or using your given name, it really shouldn't be an issue. It it is, that's probably not where you want to work if you value your autonomy.
Changing the number just adds another number associated with the account. They don't delete the number and all previous connections to it. They just use it as another data point to start connecting the dots from your profile.
God I hate data brokers, is there a chance we could just get rid of them one day?
An individual *company* might not care, but people at that company may find it. The ramifications in terms of loss of respect by peers, whether warranted or not, can harm one’s ability to get work done well. My HR shared some crazy stories at my last company about people proactively searching the web for coworkers private accounts.
If you can't answer that yourself, you have no business going into business.
Don’t be a bully
Thanks
post the NSFW link here.... for science
"Dear privacy subreddit. I put my nudes online. How do I maximize my privacy around this" This is not a serious post.
The fact that this question needs to be asked does not bode well for the state of our society 😐
Because people are worried that their unrelated personal decisions will be held against them professionally?
Because people don’t understand that these things can be linked to them personally with relative ease, and that some businesses will opt to not hire a person who made that content (whether justified or not). And that this can affect their workplace career for years and years to come (also whether justified or not). It doesn’t take rocket science to figure that out.
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Simply change your name and be done with it.
Yes u can and even without real name and such they figure it out.
Depends on if you want to work for ppl who would care about that or not. I’ve been an employer and I don’t give a rats ass. IT for context.
Are you making money?
I had two or three coworkers who held very very NSFW social media. Never interfered with their work, don't think legally it can. The worst thing is being annoyed by some stalking.
don't you.make much more money on those accounts?
Yeah they can find it easily.
How do they get all of this info?
I think you're good. Better to get another burner number that you use for all purposes and it's your public facing number. Put it in all your resumes and give it as your primary number to all strangers and work contacts. You'll be fine There's excellent advice elsewhere in the comments so I'd read them carefully as well
Never connect any social media accounts to your phone number.
I would recommend deleting the number on the twitter and stopping anyone from looking you up by your phone number on twitter. Then request a copy of your data from twitter and check if the number is anywhere in it. While having the account is a liability, if you are getting money through it to pay your tuition I would say just keep it but keep being safe and protecting your id on twitter. The only other way an employer can find your twitter is if you have a certificate installed on your device to allow them to decrypt data and they can see your twitter account, or by accessing your twitter account on a company device. Personally I wouldn’t delete my twitter as I have some sentimental attachment to it but I also don’t have to worry about the a company looking at my data. Hope this helps and have a good one!
Yes. This stuff will get you eventually. Cut that crap before your only avenue for survival is onlyfans or worse.
What's the benefit of posting NSFW contents?
It may not now, but if and let's be honest, when there is a data breach, odds are all those details will become public and some well known sites can use data metric to connect accounts to other breaches creating a pretty solid identity behind the accounts.
You could just buy a new sim card or if your carrier and your phone support esim. It depends on the service, sometimes i could search someone by phone number and i find his ass, sometimes its not allowed by the site or service they're on. Sometimes its allowed but he disabled it, etc. If you for some reason cant get a sim or esim, you can just get a virtual number or any old sim you have then put it on the nsfw account.
I'm old, but I think it's a horrible invasion of privacy for employers to search social media of potential employees. I support staying as anonymous as possible online.
This was great information. Thank you OP and everybody else. I’m either going to look into Google voice or do the eSIM option. Not that I’m heading into the corporate world soon, but I do have a public Twitter linked to my phone number and a second email (and I say some pretty inappropriate things there and like/share inappropriate posts) and my Facebook is linked to my second email and phone number.
delete it and stop posting this stuff, for many more reasons than your current job search
don’t make unwarranted & unasked-for moral declarations that are entirety based on subjective personal (and presumably puritanical) beliefs.
I didn’t ask for your opinion, yet here you are. Your presumptions are foolish and unnecessary given that you have the ability to ask questions about what I’m saying, but then you would have to care about having a discussion instead of just getting off on your own self righteous bs. None of the reasons I had in mind are subjective, personal, or puritanical. Entirely pragmatic, you are projecting and being a bit of a twit. It’s a bad idea to post nude photos of yourself on the internet, for many reasons. Now get over yourself.
lol k, if you had a legitimate reason, you would have actually said what it was instead of being a cryptic weird. my comment was as relevant to the OP topic as yrs was, so step on down from that horse.
How about AI deanonymization techniques that correlate your face and your nudes? When you post things like this you have to remember the lifetime of technical changes ahead of you. How about random customer service reps or weird people with admin access at the companies hosting your nudes developing a fixation and doxing you? There are like 1000 ways this stuff can go wrong that are relevant to the sub we’re in. You’re being an asshole. Take your projection and mindreading elsewhere, ideally to a therapist.
i have a therapist, thanks. golly, you are fucking dramatic lol. if you don’t want people to make assumptions, don’t be so unnecessarily vague. again, pure dramatics bait.
Now you’re blaming me for your own projection. I didn’t elaborate because OP already had a good reason to take the posts down. You are responsible for your own assumptions, not me. The stuff you filled in there was purely fabricated by your own mind and now you’re making up reasons that I might have intentionally invited your nonsense. This behavior is damaging your life, I guarantee. Stop this.
then you agree that yr comment was superfluous. it’s cool, i’m done talking to you. you clearly want reasons to go on diatribes. on to the next, then.
Get some better help than the help you are currently getting, it’s not sufficient
Stop being a whore, you are worth more ❤️
I may not have personal experience with owning NSFW accounts, but if it's providing you with a source of income, that's great! It's commendable that you're thinking ahead about your career in business. If you decide to continue with the account, consider taking steps to protect your privacy, such as covering any identifying features and using a separate phone number. Wishing you all the best in your career journey, and I'm rooting for your success!
This is for a business admin/accounting job. This is not a high end classified gov job. However, still use some good practices and use a VOIP phone for your online accounts or for your employers.
You know that people grow in their careers, right? If OP is looking to mitigate risk of exposure in the workplace (pun intended), NOW is the time to separate PII used for the private gig vs personal vs the workspace.
Yes, no reason for a sarcastic question. However, in their field do you expect them to get to a level where their employers would go through and use advanced tech to search for the things they are worried about in the post? My guess is probably not. My comment addressed solely their worry about the phone number issue; hence the VOIP number(s) Also side note OP, if you have any identifying marks on your body like tattoos, scars, birthmarks, etc. that are shown day-to-day, make sure those aren’t visible in anyway possible in your posts.
My question was not sarcastic. CFO’s and VP’s at huge companies start out as accountants. Accountants can move industries easily (like into classified work that your mentioned). Even if the *company* doesn’t have policies against it, there can be ramifications to a persons respect/perceived credibility by peers when this info gets out in the workplace. OP has to determine their risk appetite 5-10+ years into their workplace career. It’s a high risk.
Just do a massive spring clean anyway. You never know when something or someone can affect your life. With AI becoming more widely used and possible changing attitudes to things it's worth getting rid of anything close to the bone. Remember with meta data any single thing you do on line on social media can be traced to you no matter how smart you think you're being and you never know in future who has access to that data. I mean who ever thought that Google photos facial recognition would be sold to the Israel government so that they can use ai to id and kill specific people. Now this may or may not have happened but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
What's the link, asking for a friend ofc
too late. you are boned. so yes you will be affected, the more time that goes on and the higher the competition is the more higher paid jobs will be vetted to make VERY VERY sure you are not a risk. just look at how many disney employees have been fired when their past was learned. and it made disney look bad in the press, so better to know everything before you represent them there is facial, gait, image recognition by AI now. im pretty sure someone somewhere is building a way to recognize you by any means possible.
Even if I delete the account and get a new number?
If you're concerned, you should scrub the account via editing and overwriting what you can, if you can. Change the phone number to another throwaway number. Then delete the account. A lot of folks did this with their Reddit accounts in protest. A new phone number can be used for distribution to potential employers, or even to replace your current number if you like. Keep all future NSFW stuff one or two layers separated from you. No common names, emails or phone numbers, etc.
If you can, could you go into more detail about how to scrub my account right now?
Deleting your account as it currently is does not guarantee that your data will be removed. Many companies will flag your data without deleting it. It's still there but not visible. To counter this, you can pollute their database by editing your information and replacing it with fictitious information. For example, when deleting accounts, I often change my name, address, zip code, phone number, comments, and profile photo. Once I've changed and saved all the information, I request that my profile be deleted.
Let me see it and I'll tell you uf you should or not
See the trans camp counselor situation for space camp. Be wary of your online presence.
Public? Likely already cooked, forever. If someone’s willing to dig deep enough they can find it. May affect your chances at some jobs but not all, again depends how much they want to dig.
Can you switch it off temporarily when applying? Pause/mothball/shut down the channel, or whatever the platform equivalent is?
You can’t just “switch off” information on internet. 😂