This week we talked about our digital footprint. We are asked to search up our name and see what comes up. For mey name, there was a lot of news articles about my football career and my sports family. It was interesting to search up your own name and see what comes up. Also, my Facebook, Instagram showed up as well as where I work. I found it super interesting to see what a stranger can find out about me just by searching up my name on google. Thankfully, I didn’t find anything that was alarming. I am usually very careful with what I share on social media. I try not to post anything political, and share highlights of my life whether that is my friends, family, school, or football.
For this week we were given the option to do a deep digital sleuth on one of our classmates. So I chose to look into one of my high school friends Sarah. She shares a very common name, making it very hard to find anything specific to her. When I tried to narrow down to where she lived, it was also hard, because there is another Sarah from Saskatoon who is a doctor, so she flooded my google feed instead of the Sarah I was looking for. Most of the information I got on Sarah came from Facebook. I found out who her parents are, what city she lives in, where she went to school, and her birthday. I also found out that she is a sports fan, with multiple posts wearing Saskatchewan Roughriders gear and I saw she posted a picture at an Edmonton Oilers hockey game. I think Sarah has a very good digital footprint.
To help aid my digital sleuthing we were giving a digital sleuthing worksheet. I think this would be important for students to do with their classmates, especially while they are in high school and starting to have a more prominent image on social media. Having someone else look into your life through social media definitely opens your eyes to how easy it is to find out a lot about a person. And that people need to think about what they put on social media before they post it, as it is out there for everyone to view, and that can have a massive impact on how people see you as a person.
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