Friday, January 23, 2015

Vanity Search

When asked to do a Vanity Search I became very curious.  What is out there about me?  Do I have a digital footprint? Or how big is my footprint.  Well I would say my foot print is very small!  I was somewhat surprised, but then I thought about it and continued to search.  Mostly what I found were incorrect addresses from when I was in college living in Denton which was 15 years ago.  I found a few old photos from when I was in my twenties, and that’s about it.  I was surprised how many people have the same name as me and spelled the same!  

So why is my digital footprint so small?  It’s an easy answer though I do participate in social media I am very cautious of where things go.  I know it is because of my profession.  I make sure I disable all that I can so that I will leave as little trace as possible, but enough that I can participate.

A digital footprint can be as big as you want and as small as you want, but it takes knowledge about the subject matter to be able to control.

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