What's a Digital Footprint?
By: Melissa Lozanovski
What is a Digital Footprint by Melissa Lozanovski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Hi! My name is Andy, and I just turned 8. Today I’m able to go onto the computer and play computer games.
There is this really cool game that I want to play. All my friends are playing it and now I am finally going to play it with them.
When I went onto the computer for the first time, I went to the website to play the game.
A website is a place where you can go onto the computer to play games or find stuff that you like. It's really cool what a computer can do!
When I went to play the game, it wanted to know all these things about me, like my name and address.
I asked my big sister if I should give them my address and my full name. She said, “if it is a a credible site I would give them my information. i don't think anything will happen if you do it."
My sister's information didn't seem right to me. So I went to my mom and dad for help. I knew that they would be able to help me!
“Mom. Dad. I need help with something.” I explained everything to them, and even showed them the registration page.
They looked at me, smiled, and said, “good thing you didn’t sign up for this. It’s not a credible website.” They sat down and explained why I shouldn’t share my information with this website. They told me, “Andy, when you put something on the Internet, it leaves a ‘digital footprint’ . You need to be smart about what you put on the Internet.”
“I know what that is!! It means that when I put something on the Internet, it will stay there forever. So when I go online, I should make smarter choices about what I share with people and what I keep to myself.”
Since that talk with my parents, I have learned what I should share and what I should not share with people on the Internet.
I know that whenever I put something on the computer it will stay there forever, so I really need to watch myself and limit my “digital footprints.”
Citations:
Page One: Image of a footprint by artfullblogger http://www.flickr.com/photos/artfulblogger/6669389/
Page Two: Image of "Andy" by destinoeric http://www.flickr.com/photos/64163945@N08/5842665938/
Page Three: Image of the game Andy wants to play by RLEVANS http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlevans/428074617/
Page Four: Image of a computer by cheerfulmonk http://www.flickr.com/photos/8185675@N07/4369023717/
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Page Six: Image of the registation page, from Lozanovski's Computer
Page Seven: Image of the sister and dog by Richard Scott 33 http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmscott/2567194198/
Page Eight: Image of a help sign by loop_oh http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4541019515/
Page Nine: (See credit from page 2)
Page Ten: No Image!
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