When+Do+Students+Start+Creating+a+Footprint?

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 * According to the video our class wrote regarding our digital dossiers, we begin creating our digital footprint when we are born. Our records are kept from our birth and our digital footprint continues to grow all throughout our lives. This footprint is enormous by the time students have been using the web for many years.


 * Your digital footprint is created even before you are born. It starts with a sonogram and once you are born your name, SSN, weight, height, date of birth, and gender are all recorded. As you grow, so does your footprint. Pictures, messages, and information begins to build up as the years go on. Eventually this includes all of your personal information and everything about you is in your digital footprint.


 * Students start creating their digital footprint when they are born. However this depends on their parent’s involvement and knowledge of technology such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Emails, Phone, etc. If students have a digital footprint when they are born, it is due to their parent’s use of the computer and cell phone knowledge. The child's parents are the ones who will post baby pictures and pictures of their children growing up.


 * Students actually start creating their digital footprint when they start working on the computer around age 5 or 6 by looking up websites, creating a Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Emails accounts along with cell phones further expanding their communication. They might also start their digital footprint when they get their first car. A car with a GPS can track where a person is going and also newer cars can track the person’s safety use. Students these days are caught up in so many technology device advances that they might be creating their digital footprint at a very young age.


 * Student today start accumulating a digital footprint from the day they are born. Our society is becoming completely connected and our lives interwoven with technology. A student digital shadow is the same thing. An electronic card catalog of every place they have visited in the cyber world. Unlike paper trails, digital trails cannot be destroyed. Everything from social networking to web page hits are documented in the footprint.


 * Students start creating their digital footprints when they realize that they have the ability to control their digital footprint. From this point they have the responsibility to be conscious of their "digital dirt" and the impact that this information could have on their lives.


 * Digital footprints can start at any age without the particular person knowing about it. At birth is most likely when the digital footprint begins because the new baby will be put into a computer system of a hospital. When a student has control in creating their own digital footprint it could be the age once they are able to use a computer, especially the Internet. It can be at a very early age anymore. Students could have been on the Internet long before they came into the classroom through playing games online, downloading pictures before they are 6 years old. The age of MySpace and Facebook is when students make a huge leap in their digital footprints and that could be as young as 10. The age doesn't matter when it comes to beginning a digital footprint. It can start from birth, but when a student makes an effort to create their own identity, which can begin as early as 5 years old.

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