Building a Legacy with your Digital Footprint
Digital footprints are traces people leave online of themselves. Digital footprints stay on the web forever, so it is important to know what kind of things you are leaving behind. Digital footprints can be positive or negative, and they can say a lot about the person who leaves them behind. People need to be careful with the digital footprints they are leaving behind because they can affect their future greatly. For example, let's say that you love art and you want to share your creations with people on the web. So, you post pictures of art projects you made. Then, in the future, if you want to become an art major, the people deciding whether they want to employ you can look through your activity on your social medias, find the pictures, and know they want you because you seem like a very artistic, creative person. On the contrary, if you write inappropriate things on your social medias, people who are deciding whether to accept you into a school can see those things and then reject you.
A legacy is something important someone does that is passed down from generation to generation as an example for people to follow and be inspired from. Someone's legacy is the way in which people remember them. People have the power to change the world with the legacy they create. For example, Nelson Mandela created his huge legacy of fighting for equality for his people. By doing this, he left his mark on the world, and the difference he made is what people remember him by. You, too, can have your own legacy and make a difference in the world. Say you want people to be more positive in the world, so you make a blog and your whole theme is positive quotes and pictures. If more people get to see your blog, you could be remembered as someone who always just wanted to make the world a happier place.
An archive is a place where historical documents are kept over time. People can look in an archive if they want to find something from the past. For example, a digital archive is a site where the history of websites are kept and accessible for people to check. Since everyone's activity online is archived, it is important to be mindful of what you are doing online. An archive can also be a museum's collection of artifacts kept from a period of time in history.
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I want people to know that they have the power to change the world with the legacy they create. This video will show you that the world is shaped by people's legacies. Everyday, people impact the world and make a difference, so why not you?
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