creating a positive digital footprint
A digital footprint is your presences online, games, apps, and other social medias. Your digital footprint could be considered good or bad, depending on what you post, comment, or get tagged in. If you are planning to get a certain job, or you want to go to a certain school, you should keep your digital footprint clean. A way to keep your footprint clean, is to not post you doing drugs, drinking alcohol, and not doing illegal activities. Another way is to not say stupid comments, and not getting tagged in posts.
You should also set your privacy settings, you need to know what should be public, and what should be private. Before every time you post something, you should consider your future, and think about what you are posting. The last thing that you want to happen is you are applying for a job, and then they pull up some stuff that you posted online. When you post something, make sure it is a positive post, for you and any other person it might be reflected to. Part of having a good digital footprint, is self-regulation. If you don’t control yourself, and slip you could hurt your future, or maybe even your life. Nothing can be taken off the internet, once it is out there, it is gone.
In this picture, the lady is getting harassed, this is what it is like online. She could have posted something, and some of them might like it, and some could have been offended.
REFLECTION:
I make digital ethical choices such as not posting anything online that could affect my future in any way, shape, or form. I do this in order to stay out of trouble, and people don’t need to see what I am doing all day every day. Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced online presence include keeping off illegal websites, not saying hurtful comments, and not liking things that could get me in trouble, like people doing drugs and people being racist. Some of the ways I work to build and maintain online relationships are to communicate and text people, with a good message hoping to brighten up their days. I try to make sure that I don’t offend anyone, with a comment or bad message, in order to keep a good digital footprint, and not to hurt them.