The Power of Digital Footprints

Match the following

• All the information online about a person.

• Digital Footprint

• Lasting a long time.

• Persistent

• Unknown or unexpected people who can see information about you online.

• Invisible Audience

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

• Post only once a day.

• Adjust your privacy setting 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.

Based on the steps you learned today, 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.

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.

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

• True

• False

Your digital footprint is all of the information that ONLY YOU post

• True

• False

What kinds of information make up your digital footprint?

• Online photos

• Comments that others post about you

• Comments you post about other people's pictures

• All of the above!

What information makes a POSITIVE digital footprint?

• A mean comment you made

• Photo of you doing work in the community

• Inappropriate photos of you

• A mean review

What CAN you control about your digital footprint?

• Comments friends make about me

• Things my parents post about me

• Photos my friends post of me

• Things I post

True or False: I am too young to worry about my online reputation

• TRUE

• FALSE