Who are you? and, who are you in the internet? are entirely different questions with their respective different answers.The one who you are right now in the real life is not the same one digitally speaking.
Information of what we do in real life can be easily forgotten or really hard to find, or at least that was in the past and what everyone thinks about information about themselves. In modern times, our data is public by default and private by effort; even before we are born, there actually a footprint of us in the internet because of your parents publishing your name and gender on the social network.
Actually is very difficult, if not impossible, to have total control and to keep private all the information you are managing, specially personal data, when surfing on the internet. There are many ways to “prevent” leaking information from you to the digital world; for example, one would be to have multiple identities in which you can give false information to interact in the social web. This way no one can use your data to do things that are not suppose to be done, specially if you are someone who is followed by many people.
But, why I wrote “prevent” between quotation marks? It’s because even if you try since being born to keep your personal information away form the internet, there will be someone or is going to happen something in which you will be taken a photo for something that will be published on the internet; it will be hard to believe but a single photo says more that only text.
Live with a digital profile is something that we cannot avoid, so is better to understand this and live with it, what we can do to “protect” (again with quotation marks because is impossible to so) our information is to change our passwords from our social networks and to be really careful with what we publish on the internet. Think twice o even a third time when you are about writing critical information about you such as bank accounts, your address, your daily routine, etc.
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