What is a digital footprint?
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A footprint can leave a lasting impression, much like the information we post online. Read our top tips on making sure your online reputation is just as good as your offline one.
The photos we share, the comments we write, the videos we ‘like’ all say something about us to other people. Even if we delete them, they may still be out there – saved and shared by others, or even kept by the site or app itself.
What does the content you post online say about you?
As adults, this may have less of an effect on our futures, the people we meet online and the relationships we build, but for your child, the consequences could be far reaching.
Having been brought up in a digital world, your child’s ‘digital footprint’ is likely to be much larger than yours. Most of us did things as teenagers that we wouldn’t want people to have a photo or record of today. Most young people’s lives are documented daily, by them, their friends and even their family, sometimes even before birth (ever seen a proud ...
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