Tag: #ADL

Your Digital Footprint is the information about you that sits in the internet as an result of your activities and decisions online. Today I’m going to tell you about mine, and how it may effect my future.

So after searching myself up, I did not show up. Images, social media, nothing. However, after i put quotations marks around my name my instagram DID show up, and I was kind of surprised. I use usernames that aren’t my name, rather something random and then change the name to my real name. So i didn’t actually realize putting quotations around my name when searching, would actually pull up my instagram. I thought by changing my username to something random, would be able to keep me from

I guess something i could relate my current digital footprint to is “Cautious Sharing of Information”. Like I mentioned previously, my Instagram is the only thing that did show up after using quotations, however I don’t post anything controversial or anything too personal. They’re just some unimportant things that don’t have any significant motive behind them. So I think I’m cautious towards what information I put online to share with the world. I also haven’t posted anything that would actually tell a random person it’s me, i don’t have pictures of myself or anything. This way, only the people that actually know me are the ones that will recognize my account. So I’ve been able to control my identity pretty well, because people who don’t know me won’t have any idea towards who am I or how I look. Yes, my account is public, but it doesn’t matter as i do not have any significantly controversial posts for anyone to see.

I have a feeling my current digital footprint won’t have much of an negative effect on something like post-secondary school applications. They will be positive, like mentioned before, most of my social media accounts don’t actually go by my name, they go by something random. So if you search my name up you won’t be able to find me, therefore when applying for a post-secondary institutions i won’t have any background that can be checked. However, even if somehow they do get to my social media accounts, there is nothing on them that could contribute in a harmful way towards my application. The same would essentially apply for any Job prospects, with no background to fall onto i don’t think it’s going to be much of a problem. And once again, if they do find it there is nothing harmful too see. As for an effect on future friends or family, I don’t have any inappropriate or illegal posts on my social media, so it’d be a rather positive effect on them, I would be portrayed as a general good person and people would