Your digital identity; Your digital dossier; These are what makes you YOU, and what you are online. Your birthday, your full name, places you’ve been, sites you’ve commented on, websites or blogsites you’ve joined…
What we have to be aware of is that this information can be seen by other people. We have to be aware about our status updates on facebook, making sure we didn’t add any information that could be used by other people. We have to be sure that what we are blogging about is appropriate, and won’t give away important information. WE HAVE TO BE AWARE OF THE PHOTO’S WE POST AS WELL! My photos consist of the times I was still in the Philippines, school there, and school in Vietnam too! Sometimes, when we find old photos, we are now able to scan them and post them online! WHEN I WAS A BABY! An experience I had was going onto facebook and finding out I was tagged to almost 2000 photos. I was unaware of this, but I did know that most of these photos were under my privacy setting of “only friends”, but now I’m worried about the others.
Some leaking of information and un-supervised sites or sites with no privacy may lead to cyberbullying: Which I have experienced just a few days ago. Formspring, facebook, multiply, friends; All these sites have information about YOU where other people can learn about you. Even strangers.
It gets scarier every time I think about it. I have learned so much from being able to “Google” myself and finding out where I was before. All of this is left on the internet.
And anyone can find it… Anyone.
