Share with Care Vocab

A broad term that usually means the ability to control what information you share about yourself

online and who can see and share it

• online privacy

• digital footprint

• reputation

All the information about you that appears online.

This can mean anything from photos, audio, videos, and texts to “likes” and comments you post on friendsʼ

profiles.

• online privacy

• digital footprint

• reputation

The ideas, opinions, impressions, or beliefs that other people have about you; something that you

can’t be totally sure about but that you usually want to be positive or good

• online privacy

• digital footprint

• reputation

Information that identifies a specific person – for example, your name, street address,

phone number, Social Security number, email address, etc. – is sensitive info. Really think

carefully before sharing this kind of information online.

• Online Privacy

• Personal Information

• Reputation

Sharing too much online – usually this is about sharing too much personal information or just too

much about yourself in a certain situation or conversation online.

• Reputation

• Online Privacy

• Oversharing

This is the area in any digital product, app, website, etc., where you can define or adjust what you share

and how your account is handled – including your privacy.

• settings

• online privacy

• reputation

​An oversimplified, widely believed image or idea of a person, group or thing.

• Oversharing

• Reputation

• Stereotype

​The way a person understands a message, or the meaning they get from it.

• Reputation

• Stereotype

• Interpret

Information that surrounds the message or whatever we’re seeing which helps us understand the message. This can include the place where the message is, the time when it appears or who it’s coming from.

• Context

• Reputation

• Privacy

​A picture, symbol, or description that says a lot about (or expresses a truth about) a thing, a person, or a group.

• Representation

• Reputation

• Stereotype