My Digital Footprint
Catherine Garduno
What is digital footprint, and why is it important?
- Digital footprint is the trace you leave behind online.
- Its important because if its bad it can affect you negatively, when getting a job or even at school for example.
- Your digital footprint tells people who you are as a person
My digital footprint
The tools I use to affect my digital footprint are Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin. I use these tools to keep in touch with people, post about things going on in my life and to stay informed of the things going on around me.
Here are some examples of my digital footprint
Facebook post about boys basketball tryouts
This is a post I made on Facebook to promote Leyden's boys basketball tryouts. This affects my digital footprint in a positive way. Its shows that I am a person who is involved in school activity and cares about my school succeeding.
Linked in profile
This affects my digital footprint positively. Linked in is a site that helps you find jobs and once you do have a job might help you out even more since you now have more experience to write about on your profile. My professional picture shows that I am serious and that helps my digital footprint look good.
Snapchat
This is a picture I posted on Snapchat to promote my friends to come to Leydens homecoming game. Again this shows my school spirit and as you can tell by the way I am dressed.
What impact does my digital footprint have on my future
Positive- My digital footprint is mostly positive. I post a lot about the things i do with friends and family and that will affect me positively later in my future
Negatives- There aren't many negative things on my digital footprint. Maybe sometimes friends tagging me in appropriate things are curse words coming from other people. Having a negative digital footprint though can affect your future depending on how bad. Your job might be affected after they take a look or even at school.
Things I can do to improve my digital footprint
- Post more about my achievements and the things i am involved in.
- Actually build up your digital footprint so that when someone looks you up you come up and hopefully when they look at your footprint its all good things they see
Things I learned this semester about positive digital footprint
- To maintain a positive Digital Footprint you must first have a decent amount of footprint to look at.
- Making other accounts like on twitter or websites like LinkedIn can help
- Post about things you're involved in like school games and sports you're in
- The things you post on social media can affect your digital footprint greatly
Citations
digital footprint picture-
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=JrY0yjZhhJKVmTe1YNO%2bIxVWCvVHoU93IDkjUuhjmvg%3d