how might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities? give at least 2 examples.

A persons digital footprint could affect a persons future in a future job opportunity. Some places will not hire a someone with a bad digital footprint. If someone were to have some criminal records or have said something negative online it could lead to some places not hiring you. Someone’s digital footprint could also affect them by leading to bad relationships with people. If someone were to figure out that you’ve said something wrong they may chose to stop being an associate with you.

 

 

 

 

 

describe at least 3 strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe

You could try to cover up most of your digital footprint by staying off of social media or if you have social media it could be covered up by making sure that all your accounts are set to private. By making all of your social media accounts private you are limiting the amount of people that can see what you have posted online and you can also chose who gets to see what you’re posting. Another thing that someone could be able to do is splitting they’re footprint up by having multiple accounts for social media or multiple emails for different things. One email could be used for social media, another for work, and another for purchasing things online. Keeping multiple strong passwords is another way of keeping your digital footprint safe. Multiple passwords are needed to secure everything because if someone were to figure out one of your passwords they would be able to hack all of a persons accounts if they only had one password, which is why multiple strong passwords are needed for keeping multiple accounts safe and secure.

 

what information did you learn that you would pass on to other students? how would you go about telling them?

I learned that by simply searching up someone’s name or something they are known by that it is possible to figure out some information about this person. If a social media account is found you are able to freely roam and look through the account if it isn’t a private account so I would recommend to people to private their social media accounts.