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By RJ Leland and Sebastian Vargas

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A digital footprint is a trail of data you create while using the internet. It includes websites you visit, emails you send, and information you submit to online services(Techterms.com)

An "active digital footprint" includes data that you intentionally submit online. Sending an email contributes to your active digital footprint, since you expect the data be seen and/or saved by another person. The more email you send, the more your digital footprint grows. Since most people save their email online, the messages you send can easily remain online for several years or more.(Techterms.com)

A "passive digital footprint" is a data trail you unintentionally leave online. For example, when you visit a website, the web server may log your IP a address, which identifies your Internet service provider and your approximate location. While your IP address may change and does not include any personal information, it is still considered part of your digital footprint. (Techterms.com)

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What does it mean that your digital footprint can be “searched”?

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What does it mean that your digital footprint can be “searched”?

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Your digital footprint can be "searched" means that hackers can find your personal information, or whatever is on your digital footprint, without you even knowing it. This is why experts give teens and even adults advice on how to clean up ones digital footprint in order to prevent hackers from invading. Just from your digital footprint, hackers can see where you live, what your name is, among many other things regarding your family and personal information. Basically, your digital footprint is vulnerable to attack and if you do not sustain and clean it up, it can be very troubling for you and your family.

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What are some ways to help clean up your digital footprint? 

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What are some ways to help clean up your digital footprint? 

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There are many ways to help clean up your digital footprint. Some include:
-Enter your name into several search engines to make sure your identity has not been compromised
-Double-check your privacy settings but DO NOT trust them
-Create strong, memorable passwords that can be remembered easily by you but are not obvious to a supposed hacker
-Keep all your software up to date so viruses cannot infiltrate your digital footprint and your information cannot be leaked
-Review the use of apps on your mobile device: if you do not use it or need it, delete it
-Build your reputation through your behavior, meaning build a positive reputation, and don't involve yourself in any negative posts to keep your identity the way YOU want it
There are additional reasons too and here is a link:

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by Justin Boyle

If you've scratched your head over suggestions to manage your "digital footprint," you aren't the only one.

A surprisingly large percentage of people have never even heard the phrase, let alone thought about how to manage theirs responsibly. Among students, the percentage is probably higher. We'll talk about ways you can help students understand and manage their digital footprints before they get themselves in trouble.
The Definition Of A Digital Footprint
Simply put, a digital footprint is the record or trail left by the things you do online. Your social media activity, the info on your personal website, your browsing history, your online subscriptions, any photo galleries and videos you've uploaded - essentially, anything on the Internet with your name on it. Digital natives like today's students rarely think twice about putting their names on things online, so their footprints can be pretty wide.

Luckily for us all, most of the major sources of personal information can be tweaked so we share only certain things with the general public. There are even some third-party bonus tools available to manage the parts of our digital footprints we might not know were there.

If you want to show students their digital footprint (or take a peek at your own) the personal info search engine Pipl.com is a great resource. Sometimes just seeing the breadth of info about us that exists online is enough to spur us to action.
1. Use Privacy Settings What To Tell Your Students About Monitoring Their Digital Footprints: 11 Tips
Let's talk Facebook, shall we? Chances are pretty good that your students can be counted among the 1.3 billion monthly active users of the social media giant, and there's practically no other website that contains such a breadth and depth of personal information.

Encouraging students to put all of their social media accounts, including Facebook, on a short leash might be the most important step toward helping them manage their digital footprint. Look into Facebook's proprietary privacy tips or get the works from Lifehacker.com with it's "Always Up-to-Date Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy," then inform students about the steps they can take. Better yet, just pass the links along.
2. Keep A List Of Accounts
Complete privacy on Twitter is simple - you just choose to protect your tweets under "security and privacy" on the account settings page - but encouraging students to do so might do more harm than good. Some teachers have gotten great results using Twitter in education, and a class full of students with protected tweets might interfere with that.
3. Don't Overshare
Then delete the ones you no longer use. That myspace page you signed up for? Don't just forget about it-find it and delete it.

Perhaps the best tip for helping students maintain privacy on Twitter is one that can be applied across the whole spectrum of social networking tools: Don't overshare. As much of an alien concept as it may be to students these days, the only sure-fire way to avoid digital footprint trouble is for them to keep quiet about anything they wouldn't want to share with everyone in town.
4. Use A Password Keeper
This includes usernames, aliases, passwords, last names, full-names-as-usernames, pictures, addresses, and other important information.
5. Google Yourself
This is more of a security thing, but the worst kind of footprint is the one you didn't make that contains all of your sensitive information. It's too much work to remember 50 different passwords, and every site has their own unique rules. Until someone solves this problem, the best solution is likely a password keeper
6. Monitor Linking Accounts
You may be surprised what you find.
7. Use A Secondary Email
When you link your facebook or twitter account to that new site (whatever site that might be), you may not realize-or care at the moment-what you're giving it access to. It's usually safest to use a secondary email address to sign-up for new sites rather than granting this kind of access.
8. You Don't Need 12 Email Addresses
Whether you're communicating with someone new, or signing up for a new social media platform, it can be useful to have a secondary email address.
9. Sending Is Like Publishing-Forever
That said, you don't need 12. Keep it manageable.
10. Understand That Searches Are Social
Every time you send a message, post, or picture, you're publishing it the same way CNN does a news story. And the internet never forgets.

There's another side to your digital footprint, too - it's not always information that you choose to make public. Remember: Privacy controls or no privacy controls, Facebook still records and uses every scrap of information it gets to better determine its users' marketing demographics.

Google pulls the same trick with search and browsing habits. If a student is logged into their Google account, the service tracks every keyword they search, every Web page they visit and every time they visit Youtube.
11. Use Digital Tools To Manage Your Footprint
There are ways, however, to control the bits of deep data that we leave strewn around. First of all, even though Google is practically an official synonym for "Web search," it isn't actually the only game in town. Less profit-motivated search engines like DuckDuckGo.com and Ixquick.com may take a little getting used to, but they do make explicit policy of protecting users' browsing privacy.
Conclusion
A host of browser extensions and app add-ons can also limit the surreptitious capture of personal information. Disconnect (Disconnect.me), DoNotTrackMe (Abine.com) and Ghostery (Ghostery.com) are examples of cross-platform extensions that block tracking cookies and give users control over site scripts.

There are also some extreme measures. Browsing from behind a virtual private network, or VPN, puts a layer of thick fog between online activity and real-world identity. If even that isn't enough for your suddenly privacy-hungry students, there's also the nuclear option.

You may have heard of Tor, the multi-layered proxy client that's a go-to for anyone looking to access the fabled Deep Web. By routing your IP address through multiple proxies, Tor protects users from anyone anywhere ever knowing who they are or what they're looking at.

Of course, full online anonymity would also require students to avoid all login-based media (including app stores like Google Play), which can be a harder task than they're ready to accept. It may also be important to remind them that while we're not browsing in a vacuum and we're very rarely actually anonymous, most of our deep data is probably pretty benign.
Justin Boyle is a writer and multimedia designer who lives and works in Austin, Texas. He contributes to several websites, including OnlineSchools.com; image attribution flickr user penbentley and kyteacher; What To Tell Your Students About Monitoring Their Digital Footprints
Just make sure to let them know that everything that they post, tweet, comment or like is going down on their permanent record. Honestly, everything. That ought to get them thinking, at least.

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11 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints

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by Justin Boyle If you've scratched your head over suggestions to manage your "digital footprint," you aren't the only one. A surprisingly large percentage of people have never even heard the phrase, let alone thought about how to manage theirs responsibly. Among students, the percentage is probably higher.

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What are some important facts/ statistics that teens should be aware of related to digital footprints? 

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What are some important facts/ statistics that teens should be aware of related to digital footprints? 

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Some important facts/statistics that teens should be aware of related to digital footprints are...

1.  Think before you post: Kids need to know what they are posting before they post it. Think if it is going to harm them in the future, because anything will be kept on the internet forever.

2. . Kids should not have inappropriate picture of anything because that can harm them in the future.It could be funny, but damage  your reputation.

3. Anything you search up or post is permanent. This leads back to step number one, be careful what you search up or post on the internet , because it can be harmful to you in the future.

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Infographic on the Effects of a Negative Online Image

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Infographic on the Effects of a Negative Online Image

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Another Infographic Distributed by Microsoft on Digital Footprints:

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Another Infographic Distributed by Microsoft on Digital Footprints:

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Who can see your digital footprint besides for hackers?

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Who can see your digital footprint besides for hackers?

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A Video Found on Youtube Regarding Digital Footprints and how to Manage Them

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A Video Found on Youtube Regarding Digital Footprints and how to Manage Them

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Henry Sibley High School Presents: Managing Your Digital Footprint On the Internet a digital footprint is the word used to describe the trail, traces or "foo...

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https://www.teachthought.com/technology/11-tips-for-students-tomanage-their-digital-footprints/
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-privacy-clean-up-online-digital-footprint.html
https://techterms.com/definition/digital_footprint

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https://www.learningliftoff.com/5-tips-on-talking-to-kids-about-their-digital-footprint/