Digital Citizenship

What does digital citizenship mean to you? Well what digital citizenship means to me is fun and safe online environment. Teens use the internet all the time for social media and to help them stay safe and responsible online.  In order to be a great digital citizen online you have to be respectful, responsibly, caring towards others.  You have to be yourself online and not what you want them to see you as. In order to be a successful digital citizen you have to be fun and safe online, but also you have to have a good attitude about the internet and others.

I have come up with a couple of online guidelines to being responsible online. What I think is the number one guideline for teens to follow, is to know what you are getting into and staying prepared/calm. What is also an important guideline is knowing what is right and wrong to say, and also before a post or tweet, thinking to yourself, "would I say this to their face," if not, don't post it! A couple more guidelines for teens are to have fun, but in a responsible way, never talk to strangers, do not start stuff online, and remember that what you have said online is online forever and can never ever be taken off.

Some may ask, Zach do you have a social media account.  Well,I do have an account and I frequently use it.  I am a great digital citizen and I use my account in an appropriate way.  I have never ever said anything online that I would not say to someone in person.  Ever since this unit, I have been even more responsible with what I do and say online. If I had to rate myself out of five stars on how good I am of a digital citizen, would be a for sure fire stars because I am responsible online and know my consequences if I don’t follow my self-made guidelines.

For a better understand of what digital citizenship means to mean, I created a fun way to show you using tagxedo.