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Skip to Main Content“Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google
with good stuff and to always act as if you’re on candid camera, because you are!” ~Seth Godin
What is a digital footprint?
How is data collected?
What footprint do you leave?
Protect yourself!
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A digital footprint is the information about a person that exists on the Internet as a result of their online activity. Your digital footprint includes
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Your settings online only offer partial protection. Data is collected both passively and actively, then distributed in the same way. It is mobile, easily copied, shared, findable, and hard to erase!
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...and change them often.
When social media first emerged, it was fun and somewhat frivolous. But we now know that social media isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. It's moved beyond a social phenomenon to be come a way in which people and society (and their economies) interact. In other words, your social media profile is part of your resume. Start taking control of it now.
SIRS is a database subscribed to through your library. It's especially helpful when preparing for debate-like discussions, as it highlights opposing viewpoint related to the same question. Below are a few of the essential questions related to your socratic seminar and covered in SIRS topics. If you'd like to explore others, click here.
GALE Student Resources-in-Context and Global Resources-in-Context also provide some topic overviews rich with resources. Resources-in-Context has a curated topic page on social media for you to browse. You can search Global Resources-in-Context
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