My Digital Footprint!

Dear Readers,
Also as part of Challenge 2 for the blogging challenge we have been ask about our digital footprint. I watched a video, all about your digital dossier or footprint. It was interesting, and even a bit scary to see how big a footprint you have starting the day you were born! For intense, every time you google something the code of search and you IP address are saved, plus your adding cookies all the time to your computer! It's really mad. Even after we die our footprints grow, like whenever were mentioned online or a photo uploaded or even a R.I.P. note left on your facebook wall! We create these files upon files of information about ourselves, whether we are buying things, uploading things, blogging things, signing up for things...it all adds up. Just think, the Internet knows as much about you as you do, that's the scary part.

I've joined so many sites now that I think about it, like youtube, animoto, facebook, blogger, and so many others I can't account for them all. When I type in my information I judge the security, audiance and quality of the site before I go giving to much information out. Or sometimes I make up a fake name like ET or Gleek2k11 or something along those lines. I'm really skeptical about giving my address, email and date of birth. I have a different email that I set up under a fake name just in case and the other two I just make up! It's that simple. I think I'm safe enough when it comes to using the Internet but I think I could be a bit more carefull. When it comes to filling out the *asterisk questions I hardly ever give out more the mininum, for two reasons; 1 I'm too lazy to fill in any more; and 2 they're usually pointless unrelated questions.

If aliens were to invade...that's all I'm saying!

Think about it,
Roisin.P.