If you have a social media profile, run your own website or blog, or use social apps like Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, you have a digital identity. That's not a bad thing! However, it's important to think about what you post online and who can see it. While most of us use social media to connect with friends and family, it is often visible to future or current employers and professional contacts,depending on your privacy settings. 

When you post your multimodal assignments online, they become a part of your digital identity as well. You will need to make decisions about who you want to see what you post, where you post it, and how you want to present yourself to the world through your digital identity. 

To manage your online identity means to thoughtfully participate in social media, with the knowledge that  employers, graduate school admissions counselors, or other professional contacts could see content that you post and create. You can start by Googling yourself. Like what you see? Try and view your online presence through the eyes of a future employer or client.

When you create multimodal texts and publish them to the internet. you will also want to consider who will see them and how they reflect on you, the creator. Your digital identity can be a good thing, if you have a professional and polished presence online.

It's a good idea to check the security or privacy settings on all of your social media accounts, to control what others can and cannot see from your profile and online actions. This guide will address the steps to change privacy settings on various popular social media services.