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.