Q.2.2 Digital footprints can be construed as trails that digital citizens leave online. Do you think that digital footprints could become a problem? Discuss.

Every single thing that you post or like or click on the Internet has the chance to either help you or create a rather large problem for you. The effect of anything you do has the chance to be either negative or positive. Today we will be looking at reputations being tarnished because of their digital footprint without even realizing what they were doing was going to hurt them. These instances could be anything from loosing a job, to not getting into college, to getting into a fight with a best friend, and many more. Two simple instances that would obviously lead to a bad repercussion both of which were unfortunate and completely avoidable.For instance, a business owner publicly calling somebody out on Facebook in regards to an extremely personal issue, complete with profanity. The action showed up on the feed of everyone who followed them. Where these people may not have thought it was a bad idea at the time, but they will end up getting fired  because of it.

Another major problem that most of us now face is whether or not our digital life will hurt us in the job field and prevent us from being hired. So you looked great on your resume and then when you had your interview it too went very smoothly. They told you they loved you and you’re convinced that your going to be hired… but the call never came. You may never know why you didn’t end up scoring the job that you thought was yours, but maybe was it something they saw? Something they saw about you on the internet, like your behind on paying your bills, you were tweeting about how you hate work and can’t wait for your shift to be over, or maybe it was the picture of you dancing on top of a table. Be aware that now with hiring people for jobs background checks are done. In our internet crazed world it is sure that employers will being doing some form of search for you online and the job seeker with the least red- flags is likely to get the job. ” It is very hard to remove anything questionable about yourself from a search engine, but you can at least push it lower by adding positive entries. In our current generation many of us will be facing the negative effect of this. For a younger generation, this can affect their chances on trying to get into college.