How your digital footprint affects your future:

• Future employers can view it (and possibly not hire you because of it)

• A digital footprint can never be erased (so what you do now will follow you for the rest of your life)

• Anything you post can be used against you by people you don’t even know (anybody can screenshot your posts and edit them)

keeping your digital footprint appropriate and safe:

• Use as little social media as possible to keep your footprint as small as possible (the less you use, the less that can be used against you)

• Don’t post any personal information or overshare ( names, locations, passwords etc.)

• Only post things that your parents would approve of (don’t post anything offensive or hurtful as well as inappropriate)

Things i would change about myself online:

If I could go back and tell myself anything, it would be that my parents were right about not getting social media. As of right now I don’t have an easily found footprint because I don’t have any form of social media.