Digital Footprint
Your digital footprint can affect your future opportunities in many different ways. Jobs may reject hiring you, or fire you from the job if you have an unclean digital footprint. Your digital footprint in the past may unintendedly cause other people to have an inaccurate opinion and judgement of you.
There are many ways to keep your digital footprint clean, appropriate and safe. One way is to think before you post anything, and to ask yourself if it will offend anyone or harm anyone, if the answer is yes, then perhaps not posting it would be a better idea, and a good way to keep your footprint clean. Another way is to think carefully about what you say, because if you post something, it stays on the internet forever, regardless if you delete it or not. If you are thinking about posting a negative comment, it is better to remember the saying, ‘if you don’t have anything to nice to say, then don’t say it at all,’
I learned that Apple tracks how many times you go to a certain place, say, your house, via location services. You have to remember that Apple can see where you are, and remain knowledgeable of the fact. Another bit of information is that once you post something on the internet, it can never be taken off, like sure, you could delete a post, but the website, company or app stores all the deleted things, and people can screenshot it for any later use of blackmail or such. The most effective way in sharing this information is a hands on experience, and one good way is to think about what companies like Apple and Samsung do with personal information like your name, age and address. The best to learn about this is to watch an informational video.
