Digital Footprint

1)How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities? Give at least two examples.

It can affect in many ways, your actions on the internet is incredibly important as it could positively help you or negatively drag you down. For example, you could be at a party doing something inappropriate then someone takes a picture and share it with his/her friends. Later, their friends are going to post it, repost, and keep reposting to other people. Making this untraceable picture that can ruin your life. However, digital footprint can also help in your future. For instance, if you did something good in life and was on the internet, and maybe you forgot about it. The internet would always “have your back” and remembers it.

2) Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe.

To keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe you should not post anything too personal or something you’re going to regret on the internet, Another way to keep your footprint safe is to put your social media pages on private, that way the internet cant put them on the internet for anyone to see. Last way to keep your footprint safe is don’t send anything inappropriate to your friends because it might get leaked to the internet for anyone to see.

3)What information did you learn that you would pass on to other students? How would you go about telling them?

I would tell them everything you do on the internet is tracked. Then I would show that Apple is tracking our location, where we go the most, What time we go, etc