Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Your Digital Footprint: How I Avoid Putting My Foot in My Chatbox - Week Two

I have small feet.
I typed my name into the Google search bar, at which point it accused me of spelling my own name wrong and was rude kind enough to correct me.
There's one hit on the first page: a blog I set up three and a half years ago as a portfolio of my work from Sheridan College. There is one hit on the second page, and it's this blog. Seven pages in is an article I wrote for my church in 2007 that I don't remember doing, and another blog that I set up post-Sheridan. I gave up after page 15.
Spezify yielded no relevant results.
And I'm okay with this.
I realize that with having a Facebook account, a Twitter account (now) and a blog, that I am publishing things for the public. Yeah, there are privacy settings (which I typically crank up) but things posted on the internet:
a) are put there with the fact that it's possible that everyone can see; and
b) it stays there.
So I shape my footprint by limiting my footprint.
I'm a private guy, and I do minimal sharing on a personal level with close friends, much less mass-informing mild acquaintances and strangers. But that's just me, and I fully appreciate others' needs to share themselves. There is a line that people cross, in my opinion, where lovingly sharing turns into attention grabbing. I keep myself back from that.

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