Many people have heard of a digital footprint and understand that it means that what you post online will stay online. However, not many people have heard of a digital tattoo, which puts more emphasis on the fact that what is posted online is permanent. A footprint is something that can be erased where as a tattoo is permanent. As I have learned through this course the difference myself I feel that the term digital tattoo is more relevant to a person’s online information. As I was reading and looking up information about digital tattoos I came across a TED video that discusses our online life and likens it to a tattoo. According to Juan Enriquez (2013), a person’s tattoo or tattoos on his or her body send a message. A person does not have to say a lot because the tattoos can tell their story for them (Enriquez, 2013). This is true about our electronic tattoos as many of the activities we do everyday are left behind, such as using Facebook, online shopping, blogging, etc. (Enriquez, 2013). According to Enriquez (2013), Andy Warhol felt that everyone would have 15 minutes of fame, however Enriquez provided a different perspective that what if we are only anonymous for 15 minutes. Enriquez 2013, discussed four lessons from the Greeks. He discussed that people need to be careful of what they post because it defines your reputation (Enriquez, 2013). He also discussed not searching too deep into someone’s digital background (Enriquez, 2013). Think about the purpose of the posts and do not become too self-absorbed (Enriquez, 2013).
Think about how much online activity you participate on a daily basis…It is a lot. This idea of a digital tattoo and its permanence has made me think harder about what I do online and what I post. I remember when my family got our first computer. My Dad spent what seemed like forever setting it up. I learned to use a word processor on it but mostly played games from floppy disks. Then years later we got dial up Internet. It was an entire new world. I remember visiting chat rooms and talking to people from all over. I never gave it much thought about there could be bad people on the other end or that everything I did on the Internet would be there forever. As I have gotten older I have gained a better understanding and I am more cautious. But could I be even more cautious? Yes, I am sure that I could be by removing myself from the digital world but then would I be cutting myself off from a world of possibilities. There are many things out in the real world as well as the digital world that affect our daily lives. We just need to educate ourselves, children, students and other adults of the permanence of our activities as well as other’s activities on our lives. We have to make sure that we think about what information we are putting out there because some one else could be searching for that exact information to hurt you. How will you work to improve your digital tattoo? Resources Enriquez, J. (2013). Your online life, permanent as a tattoo. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Retrieved June 18, 2017 from https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_how_to_think_about_digital_tattoos?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread - t-337073
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