Blogging Challenge Week 8: Digital Footprints
This weeks challenge is all about digital footprints. A person can have a positive or a negative footprint, it just all depends on what you have on the internet about yourself. A positive i digital footprint is about what people can see about you when they search for you in the internet. A future employer and and teachers can search your name to see what you have been up to in the past and to see if you have behaved.
I think I have a pretty decent sized positive digital footprint. I have found comments that I have left on other peoples blogs, my e-mail address, my name in the Western Witness, in my bulletin, in the football roster, on Facebook, that I was Miss Doon and Miss Congeniality. I have never put any pictures on myself drinking or any of that other stuff because I just don’t do those kind of things. You can have way more fun without being drunk. I always have positive things on my Facebook; I try to leave good comments on peoples pictures or write good things on their walls.
I also think that you chould only give out personal information to anything formal or business like. Giving it out to Amazon or Ebay or Facebook. You can hide alot of information on Facebook so people can’t see them. Whne you are buying something on Ebay or Amazon it’s a good thing to give or information because you could get charged with fraud and that could turn out to be a bad situation.
For me to know what kind of stuf to put on the Interne; I have learned from lots of people. My parents really don’t know much about the Internet so they are not that much help. But my teachers, friends, and other family memebers make sure that I don’t do put anything bad or wrong on the Internet.
It’s very hard to know what is acceptable to put on the Internet today because I believe that there are many morals that being lost. Some people think its perfectly okay to put pictures of drinking and other things on the Internet and that is wrong. You could lose a very good job from the mistakes that you made by putting things on the Internet.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Hi Marlena,
Do you think parents should also have to learn about computers especially as many of them have emails where phishing happens? Also some use it to buy and sell online which can easily involve identity theft.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Yes i do think that parents should learn more about the Internet and how it works. But I know for a fact that my parents show no interest in it, neither of them have email. The most that they do on the computer is play Freecell or Solitare. And I do agree that alot of fruad can happen over the Internet with credit card numbers and everything else. But alot of people push to have people use the computer for banking or buying things. They think it is just easier to pay over the Internet.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Good conversation. Wouldn’t it be interesting if students could teach their parents about internet safety and other technology?