New App Helps to Keep Your Online Image Clean

Despite partying hard all throughout college, you somehow managed to graduate with decent grades and now you're on your way to paving a successful career path. Your partying days may be behind you now, but that doesn't mean they won't come back to haunt you when you least expect it – for instance, when you're trying to land your dream job. A simple Google search is all it takes for recruiters to dig up every humiliating photo that you've ever been tagged in on Facebook. Well, now a new app aims to prevent your past from ruining your chances of a brighter future.

The app is called Clear and was founded by a professional who lost his dream job, thanks to what he chose to post on his Twitter feed years prior. According to the site, Clear's founder, Ethan Czahor, created the app "to make sure situations like [his] never happen to anyone ever again."

The app, which is currently in beta testing, connects to your social networks and compiles a list of your more questionable posts from the past, using its advanced algorithms and IBM Watson, and allows you to delete the flagged posts right there in the app, without having to filter through hours of newsfeeds and walls to find career-ruining posts.

One damning post or sloppy-drunk photo could ruin your chances of getting into your college of choice or ideal company. It's better to be safe than sorry.

We live in a highly technologically advanced world that is evolving faster than we know what to do with. As it turns out, technology can either be your best friend or your worst nightmare, and the good thing is, you have control to decide which one. Start by cleaning up your online profiles and stop posting things that could jeopardize your credibility as a mature adult and professional. It's really that easy.