I have learned that is possible to control your digital reach to a certain extent. Media users can make decisions which will help limit their reach. Decisions such as how many friends/followers/contacts they have on media is a way of trying to limit their reach. Another way of controlling your digital reach is editing your privacy settings. People can choose who gets to see their posts or what they like and are interested in. Unfortunately some social media sites have in their privacy policy that they can share posts and photos with other companies, therefore making it harder to control your reach. From reading Anderson’s 2017 article I learned that Instagram are allowed to sell on user’s photos to other companies.
Once you put something up online its very hard to control your digital footprint. Even if you take the post down, it off your page, but can still come up on another person’s page if somebody else has liked it. Again people can edit their privacy settings to protect their digital footprint but it is very hard to control. Social media users can block people so that they can’t see what they are posting. They can also put their accounts on private to help improve their privacy.
Refferences
A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy so kids and parents could have a meaningful talk about privacy, Quartz, January 6th 2017, Jenny Anderson.
Manage your digital footprint, centre for internet security, 16th April 2020. (cisecurity.org) (wouldn’t allow me copy the URL to my blog)
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