Press Release

Online Exposure

Keeping A Digital Presence Clean

 

   We use social media to shape it around our tastes and personality. Because “what you post online defines who you are,” these networking sites can take a negative turn depending on how they are used.

 

   On April 8, 2014, Foshay Learning Center will have an awareness campaign on “Online Exposure” to inform high school students that their digital reputation reflects on their social behavior and therefore can affect them.

 

   Online Exposure was created by a group of high school students who want to inform their community to be wary on what they post online and the social protocol on the web. They will be challenging the high school students to prove their digital awareness and internet ethics.

 

   The campaign will be collaborative to create the “Moving Forward with Technology” awareness fair with Online Privacy, Digital Footprint, STEM Society, and Project Teenager. The awareness fair will be in the school’s main room.

 

   We are labeled as the Generation “Like” and with younger generations having greater access to the Internet there are ethics that are being forgotten. From derogatory comments to explicit photos, teenagers are exposing a “little” too much about themselves without thinking about the repercussions it will have when they apply for jobs and colleges.

 

   Online Exposure is a campaign to spread awareness to the blossoming social butterflies of the web. The event will be a challenge for the students to prove they meet the requirements to prove their online presence is job worthy and college appropriate. The students will learn through the challenge that what they do online can either affect them positively or negatively in the long run.

 

   Nowadays, colleges and companies are not only relying on a person’s resume and application to determine who they are accepting; they are now surfing the web to see the digital presence their interviewee has created for themselves: whether self-damaging or self-praising.