How to stay safe online (Day -4)

 Yesterday, I explained about Report Abuse button and  Digital Footprint. Today I will explain detail about Digital Footprint.

Your digital footprint is the impression that you leave online. Much of what you share online can be recorded forever, either on archive sites or as backups.

Content can be easily viewed by people whom you did not expect to see it. It can also be copied and shared easily, which means that it could become available to more people than you expect.

1) Ask yourself the following questions before sharing content online.

2) Would I show this to my parents or grandparents?

3) When I am looking for a job in the future, what will employers think if they see this?

4) Could people misinterpret this, either now or in the future?

5) Am I happy for this to be shared by people that I don't know?

You can minimize your digital footprint by:

1)closing your old social media accounts and requesting that all archive data is deleted

2)searching for your own name online and see what information about you is publicly available

3)asking website owners to remove old content that is out of date, irrelevant or fals

4)reading the terms and conditions when you create online accounts, because some services still have rights over your data even after you close your account.

Key point*

 You  need to  consider that the things you post online now may not be the same as your views in the future.