How To Be A Good Digital Citizen

Digital Citizenship can be defined as someone who uses different types of technology and they also use it appropriately, and has responsible behaviors.  They have to be able to have access to different types of technology which are known as a computer, smart phone, IPad, etc.  How to be a good Digital Citizen is to be careful with what you put up online.  Everyone on the internet can see what you put online, unless you do have your devices private.  However, comments, photos, posts, and anything else you put up is not guaranteed to be protected.  A couple things that will make you a good Digital Citizen is to treat others the way that you would like to be treated.  Just because you are not face-to-face with someone does not mean that you can say anything you would like to even if it is not nice.  Make sure that whatever you put up on the digital world would be something that you can show your mother or father.  Another thing to do is to be safe.  Some internet sites might ask for your address or phone number.  Be very careful with what you fill out online because it could be hackers just trying to get information from you.  If you do not feel comfortable with answering all of the questions on a social media page or other online sites, do not fill them out.  Knowing the rules of online sites are very crucial.  Each little site online has their own guidelines that are supposed to be met and the people who makes these sites make the guidelines for a good reason.  They want their sites to be known in a good way.  Finally, another thing to be to be a good Digital Citizen is to be vigilant.  Just like if you were face-to-face with someone and they were getting harmed you would call someone for help.  The same rules apply with online sites.  If there is something harmful online you have to be able to report it right away.  Cyber-bullying is a very important thing to stay away from and so everyone has to have each other’s backs. I would present the guidelines to users that use social media in a digital format by having a page on the side just like on Facebook I would have one of the drop down menus say “Rules/Guidelines” and then people using the social media page would be able to have full access of the rules.