Your digital footprint is all the information you leave behind as you use the Internet. Comments on social media, Skype calls, app use and email records- it's part of your online history and can potentially be seen by other people, or tracked in a database. A positive digital footprint highlights a persons talents, strengths and ideas.
Tweets Get Student Expelled: A Cautionary Tale
Despite a seemingly endless list of incidents trumpeting the potential dangers of social media, a student athlete in New
Jersey is facing harsh consequences for comments he posted online. There are two things that separate Yuri Wright’s situation from a run-of- the-mill story of a teen’s inappropriate online behavior. The first is that Wright is a high-profile prep athlete who was at one point being recruited by some of the biggest names in college football. The second is that his online activities didn’t target anyone specific, nor did they involve nudity of any type. The University of Michigan reportedly stopped recruiting Wright after his Tweets went public. What Wright did do was use Twitter to publish his musings about a myriad of topics, using language that would make a drunken sailor blush. His Tweets reportedly bordered on pornographic, and certainly ran contradictory to the Catholic teachings of his high school.
What would Grandmother say if she saw this post?
Treat others as you would like to be treated. Simply put, if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it at all. Follow the Golden Rule.
