Footprints in the Digital Age

The article Footprints in the Digital Age by Mr. Richardson describes how students today need to think about how we are using the internet to improve our learning. He refers to us students today needing to be googleable. So after I read this article I went on Google and typed in my name. What came up was a link to my facebook account and a writing I wrote in sixth grade from at my old school. So I know now i’m at least somewhat googleable. I think one of the only main ways to not to be googleable is to have really nothing to with the internet. So I wonder, "Can we ever control what is posted about ourselves on Google?" When I found myself on Google it was a bit weird in a way. I thought would people just judge me based on what’s on my facebook profile? When I read that a little girl named Laura Stockman who is as young as ten years old, wrote a blog that has inspired so many people with her writing makes me think, "What can I do to influence people?" I can maybe try to do the something with just something as simple as a blog or an essay.
 http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer09/vol66/num11/Footprints-in-the-Digital-Age.aspx