Digital Footprints
A way of finding more about you online
What are Digital Footprints?
A digital foot print is everything you type online. It may be something as simple as a comment on a video to the personal info you put on social media. This can help or harm you on getting a job since your employer can easily type your name online and most likely find everything you put online which may change his or her opinion on hiring you.
Privacy
People can learn almost anything about you depending on what you put on accounts.Information like this can show your email address., what's your phone number, or where you live This can lead to people stealing your identity or worse. Even simple things like posts about friends or family can give people information about you.
Posts online
Posts online can show simple things like your day or what you did. However, what you type online can persuade employer whether to hire you or not. The reason why is because work places want to seem pleasing to people. If you put something online that the workplace disagrees with you may not be hired or if you already work there you might end up getting fired. Posts might also change people's opinions about you. Posts can make you seem like what you don't act like offline.
Secure Acounts
Making your account to a website might seem hard, but it helps prevent others that might want to use your account to do something horrible. Accounts for websites like Amazon can be used for getting credit card info that maybe saved onto the account. If people get access to accounts to sites like twitter, they might post things that you wouldn't normally type.
Conclusion
To conclude this page, Digital footprints can reveal information that you might not want revealed to others such as your address,your phone number, or what you say online. To prevent this from happening is to give little to no information about yourself. If sites request more than what you put in, it's best to leave the website and never go back to it from revealing your personal information to someone anonymous.