Digital Footprint What is a Digital Footprint? How can it affect your future? How can you keep it clean? What did we learn?

What is a Digital Footprint? A digital footprint is little bits of information that you leave behind when you surf different areas of the internet These bits of information can small such as your first name They can also be big such as your full name, address, family, etc. Your digital footprint is nearly impossible to erase completely

How can your Digital Footprint affect your future? If there are negative traces of you on the internet it can affect your ability to get different kinds of high-end jobs If a certain company looks you up and finds a certain type of information, they may reject your application based off it It could also affect your ability to get into future relationships if multiple people know about your negative past because of what they found on the internet

How can you keep it clean? There are multiple ways to keep your digital footprint clean, but it still won't be easy First, you must be careful about which websites you visit. If you surf into the deep web, there are high chances that the websites will steal your personal information Second, you must make sure you limit the amount of times you allow websites to have access to your cookies Thirdly and most importantly, you must limit the mount of information you post on social media. This includes your profiles on social media

What did we learn? We learned about the impact that one single piece of information can have on the outcome of your future One wrong post could be the difference between you getting the job you want and you not getting it We learned how hard it is to get something off the web once its been them We learned that allowing websites to access your personal information is a much bigger permission than we gave it credit for