A digital footprint is defined as
the trail or traces that people leave behind online. Whether it’s through a
social media post, a picture, or any information you may have given to an
insecure website. Anyone can search your name and find your Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, LinkedIn, or white pages. These are the most common sites connected
to you that pop up first, depending on your privacy settings.
Personally
my digital footprint is fairly minimal unless you know exactly where and how to
search for me. There are, according to, howmanyofme.com 54 people named Alicia
Bauer in the US. When I search Google for Alicia Bauer, the only connection to
me is my twitter account and if you know relatively where I live (City, State)
you can find me on white pages. When searching Yahoo, I could not find and
immediate connections to me. This is due to the fact that my Facebook and
Instagram are both private accounts, making them much harder to find.
I believe
my current digital footprint could have both positive and negative effects on
me as a teacher. For example a negative would be that because my twitter is not
a private account anyone has access to it and can view anything I have posted
at anytime. If I were to ever post anything bashing a school district or a
certain principal, and I went to get a job somewhere and they saw that, it is
highly unlikely I would get the job. A positive impact is that because most of
my accounts are private, it is difficult to access a lot of my personal
information and posts.
It is very true that you have to be very careful of what you post on social media sites because negative comments could come back to hurt you in the long run. Like you my digital footprint is fairly nonexistent and I also feel this can be a positive thing that there are no negative things that make up my digital footprint.
ReplyDeleteHey Alicia!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about how this could effect us as future educators. We really need to be careful with what we post. It is good that most of your accounts are protected and that you are aware of what can be seen about you from the internet. There is very little about me on the internet though too.
Hopefully now that you are aware of digital footprints you will be extra cautious about what you post on Twitter, not that you aren't careful already. :)
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