DOES YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT MATTER?

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Your digital footprint is all that you do everyday with your digital electronics.  For instance: you get up in the morning and grab your phone to check facebook, twitter, yahoo, weather bug, news source, etc.  You like something and change you status on facebook, you retweet on twitter and add your opinion in a clever 140 characters, you then go to yahoo and check your emails and respond to the important ones, you check the weather where you plan to spend your day, you pin a new outfit on pinterest, you google some private issue, you text, you post, you call, you order things, you listen to music, you check your bank account and credit score.  Every little thing you do digitally is your digital footprint and is saved and is a measure of who you are and what you are up to and is being saved by every server you are using. 

 

Does this digital footprint matter?  That is what you determine by every movement you make on the internet.  For what might be nothing today could be something tomorrow.  Seems small but for some it has cost much to clean up their digital footprint.  New programs such as Cyberdust will allow you 30 or 45 seconds to read your text and then poof it is gone forever.  Not saved on any platform.  I think this is the wave of the future.  Everything we do online will be turned into nothing...but then we will go from substance to nothingness. 

 

So there is a fine line being drawn right now over the permanence of your information.  All that is out there now is very permanent.  There are just a few app's on the horizon that won't leave a print.  So for the most part it is important to be aware that everything you do online is being watched and saved, and will be there FOREVER for future viewing.  I guess the internet has become eternal!  So watch your step.