Managing Your Digital Footprint

This video tutorial guides high school students on cleaning up their digital footprint. It emphasizes the importance of managing online presence, especially for college admissions. The tutorial provides steps to clean social media profiles, review and delete unwanted content, and enhance positive online presence. It also covers handling unremovable content, adjusting privacy settings, and setting up alerts. Finally, it advises on responding to inquiries about online conduct.

Why is it important to clean up your digital footprint before leaving high school?

• To ensure college admissions counselors see your best side

• To delete all your social media accounts

• To make new friends online

• To increase your followers

What is the first step in cleaning up your social media accounts?

• Blocking all your friends

• Changing your profile picture

• Making a list of all social media sites you've used

• Deleting all your photos

What should you do with pictures that might portray you negatively?

• Share them with friends

• Take them down

• Leave them as they are

• Edit them to look better

How should you handle old posts that are not inappropriate but not sentimental?

• Share them again

• Delete them

• Ignore them

• Keep them for memories

What is a good strategy for dealing with unflattering tags in other people's posts?

• Like the post

• Comment on the post

• Untag yourself and ask for removal

• Ignore them

What can you do to flood your digital footprint with positive content?

• Ignore your online presence

• Post random comments on any site

• Create a website or blog showcasing your work

• Delete all your social media accounts

How can you associate reputable websites with your name?

• By posting negative comments

• By interacting with schools and companies online

• By ignoring online interactions

• By creating fake profiles

What should you do if you can't remove negative content from your digital footprint?

• Ignore it

• Flood your footprint with positive content

• Delete your accounts

• Complain to the website

Why is it important to update your privacy settings?

• To make your account public

• To ensure your digital footprint is positive

• To delete your account

• To hide from everyone

What is a good practice to monitor new online content about you?

• Set up Google Alert notifications

• Check your social media daily

• Ignore new content

• Ask friends to monitor for you