Digital Citizenship

What is it to be a good citizenship in the digital world? The answer seems so simple but many people have problems showing it.  So you should be safe, responsible, reasonable, and use ethics while functioning online.  This seems so simple but everyone can’t follow these simple rules. So here are a few tips so you can have a better online life.

One of the first things you need to follow is privacy. This means that you need to respect others online because not everything is your business.  You should also set up privacy settings online to increase your safety.

 Self-Expression and identity: So make sure that you show yourself as yourself and don’t make up some random person.  You have to keep in mind what you put out online will be one there forever.

Connected Culture you also have to be sure that you know how to treat others and avoid all the temptations of bullying people online. If you do that person that was bullied can go to an adult and report it.

Respecting others work is big to because there are a lot of temptations to just copy and paste. So you need  to get their permission in order to use it as your own.  It will save you from getting in trouble.

In my digital communications class our teacher had all of us students say what we though digital citizenship was. So here is what the students said: http://wallwisher.com/wall/dig_citizen

If I were to rate my online behavior on a scale 1 to 10 (10 being the highest) I would give myself a 8. I would do so because I know I have used other people words and tweaked them just a little bit. I know I have also said things that I wish I wouldn’t. But as long as I can admit that I can lean from those mistakes and not make them again. When I am with my friends I probably say more things when I’m by myself. I’m glad we had this lesson so I could learn how to improve my online responsibilities.

So be safe and watch yourself online it will make you a much better person and it won't cause fights that you can't get out of.