Years ago, out of sheer curiosity, I sat down and googled myself. The results both stunned and horrified me.

Within a span of five minutes, I was able to pull up my current address, a shockingly accurate list of all of my prior addresses, the names, addresses, and ages of multiple relatives, my job history, and a slew of other information that I would never EVER publicly publish. I was devastated.

Your digital footprint is all the information about you that exists on the internet as a result of your online activity. This includes your search history, your photos and videos (Including the deleted ones like those pesky photos you told your drunk friends not to tag you in, but they did anyway), as well as every single time you like/love something on a social media site. Even your text messages leave a digital footprint.