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Wiki Exercise #2: Visibility and Online Footprint

I consider I am pretty visible online, as I have an account in all the main social media networks: Facebook,Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and Google. There I have some privacy settings, to restrict what people see about me. In the case of Facebook, I start not accepting people I don't know personally offline. My profile pictures are public, but everything else I post in the network is only available for friends I already have. Apart from that, I think that my public profile is much more visible than what I actually know, because almost anyone can access to my information, or save my pictures.

In the case of Instagram, it's much less private for me, also because I don't have there very private information or stuff. Anyone can follow me, and I can decide whether to follow back. Anyone can see my pictures, even if we are not friends or followers. I also can see the pictures of people I am not following in the case they don't have their profile private. As in Facebook, in my Instagram I post things about the people I am with, and about the places I've been.

Linkedin is more professional, anyone is able to see my profile, but I recieve a notification of who has seen it. I have it for a professional interest, and I can control exactly what people see about me. It is only about work experience, education and interests but it is a good network for connecting people of the same business.

I don't use Twitter pretty much. I think that is very useful for the interests that I have (news, current affairs, etc). It is also helpful for connecting wellknown or famous people. The privacy is restricted to what you tweet or retweet, because that information is public for everyone. Your visibility depends on your amount of followers and the impact you can have over them.

To sum up, the kind of information that is available about me online is my name, where am I from, where I live and study, what are my main interests and who my friends and family are. I use to post pictures of events, good moments, trips, beautiful landscapes...etc. I have chosen to share it with my friends, or people I know offline, and my family or other contacts. I think that that information about me should be accesible only for the people I care something about, not strangers. Even though, I follow people (in Twitter for example), who I don't know for real. Finally, I think that only a little of the information that is about me online it can be controled by me. It is said that "what you don't want people to know or spread, don't post it on the Internet", because you never know who can finally see you and the things about you that are online.