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GET REAL! Toolkit • Activities Your Digital Footprint What does your digital footprint tell about your body image? With every mouse-click, you leave behind a digital trail of what you do, where you go, and who you know online. Your digital trail creates a digital footprint of your online identity that increases in size every time you post, share, and search online. Your online identity can tell a lot about your body image. This activity will help you see yourself in the digital world. Follow your digital trail by copying and pasting, or simply making a list, of the items below, and insert them into the footprint. Write down: • User names for email/twitter/etc. • • • • • Favorite websites/social media/apps Who you follow on twitter Websites you visit Recent Google searches Title of your blog (if you have one) Copy and paste: • Profile pictures and selfies • • • • • • • • • • Your “About” page: interests/likes/blurbs Shared or tagged photos and videos Typical posts/tweets Pages you “like” Groups you join Events you attend Ads that appear on your webpage All of your profiles/groups Pinterest board: posts and those you follow Instagram photos/Vine videos Reflect: Reflect on what you see in your digital footprint and how others might view you. Does your online identity reflect who you are in real life? What does it say about your body image? Is this how you want others to perceive you? Talk to your friends about their digital footprints and take some control–delete the negative posts and pictures and leave the positive ones. Get REAL! about Media and Body Image | California State University, Northrdige | National Eating Disorders Association