Your Digital
Footprint
What is a Digital Footprint?
Your digital footprint is a traceable log of your online activities. This includes websites you visit, messages or emails you send, and things you search through a search engine such as Google. All these things can be traced
in a log.
The more time you spend online, the bigger your
digital footprint will be
My internet use
Write in the boxes what you have used the internet for this past week:
My digital footprint
COMUNICATION
ONLINE GAMING
ONLINE SHOPPING
WATCH VIDEOS
POST PHOTOS
RESEARCH
ONLINE READING
BOOK A VICATION
What is included in your digital footprint?
Active footprint - these are things you have left by making choices such as:
Passive footprint - there are things you do without realising such as:
Activity
Can you go back to your spider diagram you created about your online
activity and add "Passive" or "Active" to each box
Who can track your digital footprint?
Companies and social media platforms
schools, colleges, universities and potential employers
Potential creditors (money lenders)
hackers and people trying to steal your identity (cybercriminals)
How to manage your digital footprint:
Be careful about what you share, and with whom!
Keep passwords secure, and try not to use the same password for different websites
To see how your digital footprint, Google yourself. You might be surprised what is visible
Keep privacy settings set to the highest privacy possible
And finally... know that sharing is like publishing FOREVER. So, think twice
before sending that message or publishing that post!
Activity
Can you create a poster on this page, explaining how to manage your digital footprint (DF). You might want to consider:
You can use text, images and shapes. We have added a footprint template to get you started (which you don't have to use!)
(delete these instructions before saving your work)
A DIGITAL FOOT PRINT IS A TRAIL OF DATALEFT WHILE USING SOCIAL MEDIA.
