q 1.  It can affect your future in a good way or a bad way for example: if you have a bad digital footprint and there is a university thinking about letting you in but check your negative digital footprint there’s a really high chance that they wont let you in even if you had a few scholarship’s, it can really ruin your future.  But it can also benefit you and affect your futur in a great way.  because if  there is a good university and they look at your good digital foot and yours has examples of volunteering exceeding in academics  helping others positive messages, there would be a high chance of being excepted, and just having a digital footprint is just as important because without one the choice of letting you in to there university would be more difficult.  Basically you should really take care of your digital footprint because whatever you post can go around the digital world fast and can be viewed with ease.

q 2.   A good way to keep an appropriate digital footprint is dont post anything to personal.  And doing anything illegal or negative and posting it, avoid going to bad places for example if you were at a party where there’s a bunch of drinking or doing drugs and doing a bunch of other unintelligent choices, someone at the party could post a picture of you or you were in the background and it gets posted, any body can just screenshot and send it within seconds.  And all of it can be seen by the university or school your trying to get in, which lowers you chances by a lot.  avoiding sending anything inappropriate should be one of the first to avoid because lets say you send something inappropriate to someone at the school, and that someone sends it to a group and anyone in that group chat can just tell the principal the principal can put that on your record.  And the school or university or job your trying to get in can see it and easily reject you.  those are some of the mains to avoid and keep an appropriate digital footprint