![]() ![]() Contrary to what some think, not having an active web presence of your own is not savvy. “If you can’t get rid, dilute,” says Don Sorensen, a reputation manager at Big Blue Robot. There are however, smarter methods if you can live with having some negative stuff out there. “It’s a very labor intensive and drawn-out process.” “There are ways if content violates a web host’s policy, but it’s not often successful,” says Joseph Torrillo, vice president at Reputation Management. ![]() The European Court of Justice has ruled that there’s a controversial “right to be forgotten” on that continent, but it’s difficult to scrub your digital existence. “People come to me in deep trouble from things they’ve found,” says the author of “The Self-Aware Parent.” “There’s a ton out there that can be toxic.” There’s also the risk of a prospective employer coming across something negative and untrue. Beverly Hills psychotherapist Fran Walfish has seen couples that squabble over finding a photograph of their partner at a strip club to young adults emotionally scarred from images of their chubby childhood uploaded by their relatives. Lively’s reaction may be severe, but she’s hardly the first person to be upset by a series of negative Google hits. “It’s a good rule of thumb not to Google yourself because the Internet is not nice.” The 29-year-old actor once entered her name into a search engine and it “ended in full depression,” she says in a recent video for Variety magazine. She made her name on “Gossip Girl,” but Blake Lively really doesn’t like hearsay. ![]()
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