Students are advised to clean up their prims and hide their SexGens in inventory, I guess, or at the very least treat their Facebook profiles like a trophy case.

Treat your social network profile like your own bedroom - meaning, keep it tidy and orderly - and good things will come your way, says a student leader and serial entreprenuer to Red Orbit.

Your social network profile could indelibly affect employers first impressions of you, says Kevin Prentiss, who works for the student education company SwiftKick. At a recent talk at University of Mary in North Dakota, he stressed that keeping your social networking profile clean helps project a professional image to people who search for you and find you on Facebook, MySpace, or other such sites.

“Your bedroom is the center of your physical identity,” he said. “You have a bedroom online … It is a glass bedroom.”

He suggested that students treat their online home like a ‘trophy shelf or wall of achievements.’ He mentioned that once, someone mentioned on their page that they had recently received an award and was offered jobs from members of his social network.

The Swift Kick Web site also stresses that, according to the company, 60% of all employers search the Internet for you and that you should protect yourself from stalking and identity theft.

The author ignores the fact, however, that our digital portfolios are as much the product of what OTHERS post about us as what we put live. Someone throws up a photo of you drunk at a frat party, tags it with your name, and it doesn’t matter what trophies you have out. This is a challenge, as pointed out in Born Digital….in the digital age, we really are part of a digital community, and like living in a small village, everyone can know our business.