Oversharing and your digital footprint

Oversharing and your digital footprint

Vocabulary practice

Choose the correct option

Multiple Choice

a finsta

• a saved image of what is on a computer or phone screen

• a fake Instagram account (a combination of the words ‘fake’ and ‘Instagram’)

• something important

Multiple Choice

to scrutinize

• to examine something very carefully

• to remove or delete something from the internet

• to make changes

1. Check your understanding:

True or False

Multiple Choice

You should make your account public and say where you live.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You should post all the time just to please other people.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You should remember that people can take screenshots of your posts, or save and edit them.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You should be aware that your posts are going to be there forever.

• True

• False

2. Check your understanding: 

Match the sentence with the correct option

Multiple Choice

Having a lot of people see your posts can be

• everyone is going to like you.

• kind of scary.

• it can be there forever.

Multiple Choice

Oversharing is putting too much of your personal life

• everyone is going to like you.

• bad decisions sometimes.

• in front of a wide audience of people.

Multiple Choice

Just because you post all the time doesn’t mean that

• it can be there forever.

• how other people view you.

• everyone is going to like you.

Discussion 

Do some people post too often and share too much personal information? What do you do to stay safe on social media?