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Digital Citizenship & Internet Safety: Digital Footprint

Things You Can Do!

  1.  Do a Google search of your name (use quotation marks around it to narrow results).
  2. Set up a Google Alert of your name to be notified of your web presence.
  3. Limit the information and photographs that you post on social networking sites like Facebook or microblogging sites like Twitter.
  4. Do not re-send photos or texts without permission.
  5. Use services like PayPal in order to reduce the amount of sites that retain your personal information.
  6. Be selective about the information that you post on social networking sites.