When you walk around your school, the mall, or even your house I bet you bring your phone, and it rarely leaves your side. This is dangerous because you have apps like snap chat, tik Tok, Facebook, twitter and Instagram, these apps are known as social medias. When you post stuff on these apps you leave behind information about yourself. Did you know that when you post stuff on the internet it never goes away, this is a digital footprint, it is made up of all the pictures, videos, and tweets which you have posted that other people can see. An example of bad digital footprints is if you post a racial comment on a video or make a racist video online, future employers can search your name and find these comments and you would lose the opportunity of getting a job. You can prevent this by not posting stuff you might regret in the future and making all your social media accounts private. Another example of digital footprints is tik Tok trends, a couple of months ago there was a trend where people would steal or break stuff from public washrooms. Surprisingly, people posted videos of them contributing to this trend and many people faced criminal charges because they found the videos online for proof. In conclusion digital footprints can make or break your future education or jobs.

Citation: 

Ahearn, Frank M., and Eileen C. Horan. How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace. Lyons Press, 2010. 

“What Is a Digital Footprint?” Www.Kaspersky.Com, 9 Mar. 2022, https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-a-digital-footprint. 

Competency reflection: 

I know that digital footprint can have both positive and negative consequences including a bad influence on your job, so I adjust my actions to get rid of negative actions 

By doing good online, I make a positive difference to my peers. 

Some of the ways I work to build and maintain online relationships are being kind and nice.