To me, the idea of having an internet footprint is slightly terrifying, but one that everybody must come to accept in our ever-changing technological society. Of course, it is frightening that someone could potentially find out things about me with the mere click of a mouse, however this makes me no different than most of my classmates, teachers, and peers. With the nearly entire dependency we have constructed for the internet makes the abundance of information it supplies not so unusual after all; it's just a fact of life. With this being said I thing that we need to be careful about what we say on the internet. If the internet is so openly and commonly being used to learn something about people whom you have never met, it only makes sense that what comes up on the internet when you Google someone should be designed to make an optimal first impression. When I googled myself and specified the search to find my correct identity, this is one of the links I found. This did not bother me because it is only a positive article mentioning one of my swimming achievements that I am quite proud of. None of my social networking pages came up.
In response to the 3 articles: "College Prospects are Being Watched on Facebook and Twitter" and "37 Percent Of Employers Use Facebook To Pre-Screen Applicants" and "This is How a Woman's Offensive Tweet Became the World's Top Story", I am not completely surprised. When it comes to the lady who made the very offensive tweet about Africa and AIDS, I am going to refer back to what I mentioned earlier about being careful about first impressions. Also, people tend to forget that even though you can delete things, they will ALWAYS be there on the internet. The second someone retweets, shares, screenshots, or in any way saves what you have said, it is out of your hands as to what will happen to it and who will see it in the future. This also applies to the job applications and coaches recruiting. If what you post on the internet it the image of yourself you are posing for everyone to see, then that's what EVERYONE is going to see; even if you don't want them too. This word cloud is how I hope people would see me if they could see everything about me through the internet:
In response to the 3 articles: "College Prospects are Being Watched on Facebook and Twitter" and "37 Percent Of Employers Use Facebook To Pre-Screen Applicants" and "This is How a Woman's Offensive Tweet Became the World's Top Story", I am not completely surprised. When it comes to the lady who made the very offensive tweet about Africa and AIDS, I am going to refer back to what I mentioned earlier about being careful about first impressions. Also, people tend to forget that even though you can delete things, they will ALWAYS be there on the internet. The second someone retweets, shares, screenshots, or in any way saves what you have said, it is out of your hands as to what will happen to it and who will see it in the future. This also applies to the job applications and coaches recruiting. If what you post on the internet it the image of yourself you are posing for everyone to see, then that's what EVERYONE is going to see; even if you don't want them too. This word cloud is how I hope people would see me if they could see everything about me through the internet: