Digital Footprint & Safety

When it comes to a digital footprint it really comes down to what you post on the internet and this can span from profile pictures, videos on Facebook, YouTube etc, dating profiles, tweets and statuses on Facebook. Jobs google search your name on the internet to find out what your digital footprint is like, for example they can search through your Facebook and find out if you do drugs, they can find out whether you have committed crimes in the past and more, this ultimately leads to them deciding if you are suitable for their workplace or not.

For example this is my profile picture on Facebook at the moment:

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Now I do not see this as being something that will stop me from getting a job. I am not doing drugs, I am not showing any sort of violence or abuse and there is not any nudity in the image. It is just a photograph of me with smoke from a cigarette coming out of my mouth and the image is highly styled with a very 90’s VHS aesthetic.

So I say you can post whatever you want, post what interests you enjoy outside of your professional life, post videos of you and your friends on nights out and whatever else just as long as it does not contain violent or abusive imagery, nudity and sex, drugs and anything else that would make you miss the chance of getting or even losing the one you have.

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