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PLN 5

The article “Footprints in the Digital Age” by Will Richardson impacts my life because it reminds us that everyone is ‘googleable’ and that the major change in technology is causing younger generations to understand it before their predecessors.  When people are googled, all sorts of information tidbits come up.  Many people are “googleable” but the goal is to be “googleable” in a positive way. Whether that be their facebook profile, tweets, blogs, or a newspaper article, everyone who participates in the ‘online community’ has information out there for anyone to find.  People google others for a number of reasons such as, looking for past accomplishments, finding out more about their personal life, or seeing if they can connect online.  When people have such a big part of their life out in the open, they need to make sure that that ‘big part of their life’, is one they don’t mind complete strangers or potential employers seeing.  Personally I think being googleable is very scary, because people can't find you, where you go to school, what you do, anything about you. Therefore I feel its very unsafe. In my opinion the internet is a terrible thing, at some times. I think that the internet is way to intertwined with our lives. At other times I think the internet helps a lot and makes it so that we can learn many new things.
 Even young children spend a considerable amount of time online.  They quickly to learn new changes that the educators in their lives struggle to keep up, let alone, stay ahead.  Helping students learn how to use the technology and seemingly infinite amount of information to their educational benefit is a challenge that teachers and parents now face.  Once they do, they become able to function in collaborative networks and other online groups.  Being ‘googled well’ is important and a rather simple concept, the hard part is getting yourself out there enough to show up at all in the results.  The internet is a good thing at good times and at other times its a bad thing. One could argue that if you act right, and don't post dumb things on the internet there is no reason to fear the internet, others could say that the internet is just too mixed with our lives and it is inevitable to not use the technology we have today. In conclusion, the internet has many looks and views but has greatly impacted the modern human.