Pros and Cons of Having a Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint Editorial Have you ever heard of a digital footprint? How about, did you know that using the internet can cause some serious problems in your life, weather you know of it or not? A digital footprint is a trail that keeps up with everything you do on the internet. This could be a good or bad thing. Some people could even agree or disagree with it. From my point of view a digital footprint is a bad thing because it keeps up with everything you do, it never goes away, and it could cause problems. Would you want anyone to know ALL of what you do? It’s a negative thing for several reasons beyond what was stated also. Have you ever wondered why things pop up on your computer related to things you’ve done in the past on the internet? Digital Footprints keep up with everything you do by basically storing in a file that has your name on it. For instants, if you go on a website and do whatever is you are tending to do on it. The next day you get on “Google” and start to search it pulls up the last few sites you been on. That’s an example of how it keeps up with it. In the article Facebook Is Using You. It states “In Europe, laws give people the right to know what data companies have about them, but that’s not the case in the United States.” Why don’t we have the same rights as them with our digital footprints is the question? All this information that goes out is about us. How come we don’t have that same right to know what’s going out about us? That needs to me fixed to where we can just like everyone in Europe. When you make an online perches there’s always those ads that pop on the screen trying to sale you more. Whether you like it or not it’s always keeping up with everything you do and you have no control of it, at all. It’s like a digital footprint is tracking you and some people don’t even know it. Also, Digital Footprints not only keep up with you do but everything you do on the internet never goes away. Once it’s in the internet