(DG) CF1.U1.2: Digital Footprint & Social Media Life 7th

Your digital footprint includes information that others post about you online.

• • True

• False

Which activity makes up a digital footprint?

• • Joining an after-school club.

• • Playing on a sports team.

• Posting messages or comments on social media.

• Writing in a journal.

Based on the steps you learned in Take a Stand, how should you approach conversations with people who might have different opinions?

• • Debate with each other. Eventually, you'll find an answer everyone agrees with.

• • Share your perspective, listen to other people's perspectives, and be open to changing your own.

• Convince others that your perspective is right.

What can you do to make a positive digital footprint for yourself?

• Post only once a day.

• Adjust your privacy settings to control who sees your posts.

• Use only apps that make pictures and posts disappear.

• Share as much as you can with your best friends.

lasting a long time

• Privacy

• Persistent

• Digital Citizenship

• Invisible Audience

anyone who can see information about you or posted by you online

• opt out

• privacy policy

• invisible audience

• digital footprint

All of the information online about a person, either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally. 

• Anonymous

• Cookie

• Plagiarism

• Digital Footprint

sharing personal feelings, information, or experiences that later make someone feel uncomfortable or regretful

• oversharing

• curating

• affinity grouping

• persisting

When something happens on digital media that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious

• Red flag feeling

• Unplug

• Bias

• Credible

websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking

• social media

• digital citizenship

• red flag feelings

• oversharing