1. How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities? Give at least two examples.

The digital footprint that I’m creating daily will affect my future in a positive or negative way. For example, I might get a better job opportunity if my employers see my positive impact upon others online. One way my footprint could be bad is if my current job’s boss sees my offensive posts on social media, then fires me.

2. Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe.

There are different ways of keeping your digital footprint private and safe and some of them are easy such as using the T.H.I.N.K. strategy. Another way could even just be not putting any information on a public website that you wouldn’t give to a stranger. Also think of yourself in ten years. Would you be embarrassed by the things you want to post right now, later on? Could you get fired for your public statements you made as a teen? If you keep your digital footprint in mind you’re online, you will not have as many people that possibly stalk or use your information. You also might not have as many people judging you just by looking at your social media.

3. If you could go back in time, is there anything you would do differently online? Think of what type of advice you would pass on to your younger self or other students. How could you go about explaining it to them?

If there were one thing I could tell myself to do online in the past, it would be to use different passwords for each website and thing I sign up for. Now that I’ve been on the internet for a while, I’ve gained a few habits including only using the same password for convenience. I used the same password because I wanted to remember my password and I can’t remember more than 5 passwords and what each one is for.I didn’t write them down because I didn’t want someone finding all my passwords but that doesn’t matter because if someone were to hack my accounts or plant a key logger, they would find my one password anyway.