My digital footprint

My Digital Footprint

Social media, is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don’t think that it’s a question that you can just answer that easily though. I believe that it’s a good thing to have because it makes it easier for us to be more social. While this is a good thing there is something that makes social media a very bad thing to have and the same time. You have to be careful and watch your digital footprint.

           

Digital footprint? The way I think of the digital footprint it’s whatever you have on the internet. Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Myspace, Tublr, etc. there’s just too much to count no a days. Say if you were to post a picture of you at a friend’s house on Facebook and you all were doing something you weren’t supposed to be doing. Your mama isn’t the only person you need to be worried about seeing that picture. What if you have a job interview the next week and you forget to take that picture down and they look at your Facebook and see it. The next thing that they’ll do is throw your application right out the window. Or maybe you do remember to delete it off your page and you think all is well but you still go into the interview with your application in the trash because Bob, the guy you used to hang out thinks it’s a funny picture so he screenshots it posts it on his Facebook. Situations like these happen a lot more often than you would think. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be something you posted or a friend. It might be able to be the people you follow on Instagram. Or the tweet you retweeted because you thought it was funny. It is every little thing that you say and post on line.

The worst part is sometimes you don’t have to be online at all for you to have a digital footprint. Almost everything that you do can and will be found online, for example, say you don’t even have a computer at all but you get arrested for public intoxication. Well that is now online and can be found with a simple name search in google.

I’m not saying that the internet or social media is bad; all I’m saying is that you might want to be more careful of what you post online and in general for that matter. There is so many ways bad thing of you can end up online.