Over the past several decades the world has increasingly gone more and more digital. It seems that in today's world pretty much everything you do has an impact on our digital footprint. From our computers, to smart phones, smart watches, and more. It's a lot of information that's held in a digital format and increasingly online.
Now this may come as a shock to no one, that I am fairly comfortable with living my life in the online world. I tend to keep my online life clean and uncontroversial (no long political rants can be found on my Facebook or any public place). However, this is a result of the privilege I was born into (white, cisgendered male from Canada). I'm fully aware that if my level of privilege was different, I would probably feel very differently about living my life online.
Now this may come as a shock to no one, that I am fairly comfortable with living my life in the online world. I tend to keep my online life clean and uncontroversial (no long political rants can be found on my Facebook or any public place). However, this is a result of the privilege I was born into (white, cisgendered male from Canada). I'm fully aware that if my level of privilege was different, I would probably feel very differently about living my life online.
My Digital Footprint
For this blog post, I decided to do some digging into my own personal digital footprint. Searching my name didn't result in any red flags or unsurprising results. In fact there were many more famous Brendan Lea's that popped up and I finally popped up on page 2 with an old Pinterest account and finally this site.
Use the @mrbrenlea handle proved to be much more effective. This is what I use across my public social media accounts and it was easy to find me. Again not surprising.
However, as I look at through the searches for @mrbrenlea, the one thing that struck me was how little I have actually contributed to the global pool of knowledge. As an educator at heart who works as a tech coach/integrator, I felt kind of ashamed of myself. I need to further develop my confidence in my skills and knowledge and trust that those who are interested will like what I share and of course find it.
Use the @mrbrenlea handle proved to be much more effective. This is what I use across my public social media accounts and it was easy to find me. Again not surprising.
However, as I look at through the searches for @mrbrenlea, the one thing that struck me was how little I have actually contributed to the global pool of knowledge. As an educator at heart who works as a tech coach/integrator, I felt kind of ashamed of myself. I need to further develop my confidence in my skills and knowledge and trust that those who are interested will like what I share and of course find it.
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