Digital Footprint

Gena Marker

Teacher-Librarian

Centennial High School

• Photos, emails, blogs, chats, etc.• Search: pipl.com, google.com dashboard, socialmention.com• Maintain: privacy settings, know who can see what• Create: list your skills, experience, interests, academic

achievements = positive• Be nice!: what would your Grandma say about it?

Everything you've ever done on the Internet . . .

Once it’s posted, you lose it

Your Digital Footprint in the afterlife . . .

Google:• Tool called

“Inactive Account Manager”

• Choose data deletion after 3, 6, or 12 months of inactivity

• Or choose someone else to receive your data

• Google sends warning to secondary email or phone (you give them a contact) before deleting data

Facebook:• Account can be

“memorialized”• No settings, friends,

or content will be changed

• FB won’t send birthday reminders or other content about the account

• All privacy settings remain the same

Twitter:• Account deactivation

by loved one after showing death certificate

• Verification of person behind Twitter handle needed

• Account deleted after 30 days deactivated

• Twitter will also removed photos, if family members request