A digital footprint is what your life looks like on the internet, it is the record of who we are as people. It is what allows companies to collect data to be sold to other companies to allow them to sell us things. I believe that many people mystify the internet and make it this all-knowing beast, it is a tool that is human made and it reflects what humans put in. I think many people who look at the internet dehumanize it and believe that it provides them with anonymity. A lot of people today use the internet as their garbage can for the worst most useless ideas ever. There are many people online that think their opinion is important, that writing things online will do anything or change anything. I think people need to realize that writing blogs or commenting on videos doesn’t do anything, and its not important to the world. People have come to believe that they are the only person having a thought or that saying something will change the world. There is freedom in practicing apathy online, just don’t intact with things online. I believe that the less information you post online the less can be used against you, when you post online you allow people to have power over you. I think teaching students to really understand that posting their entire lives online is a bad idea. When I was teaching I made it very clear that none of my students would ever follow me, I believe that the boundary of teacher and student should always be at the forefront of a student’s mind, how much this is colonial thought or not us up to debate but people will interact with authority figures and believing that they are your friends, is wrong and it causes you to think that a person will do what you want. I believe in strong boundaries between my teaching life and my personal life, a lot of people make this their whole life and it can leave you burnt out. The idea of a digital footprint allowed me to evaluate my own online habits to not live my life online.