Since my days in late Elementary School, I’ve learned about how serious the safety of your information is. Namely how your posts can impact your life. In class today, I was asked to do a Google search for myself. And after doing some research and reflecting upon what I have posted in the past, I can come up with the following conclusions:

Firstly, I noticed how specific you need to be in order to find me. Searching my address would give you articles about my mother and father. Even my neighbor had an article. But if you were to search my name with Corpus Christi, Montgomery County, or North Penn, you’d get articles where my name was simply mentioned. And they were good articles. The biggest one about me would be about my diagnosis of autism, but my dad was mentioned in some of them as well. But my social accounts aren’t as easy to find. My YouTube channel puts me under the pen name “Nick”, but if my professor wanted me to clarify about what the name of my YouTube channel is, I’ll edit this post accordingly. Overall, I’d say that my standing is good for when my actual name is searched for certain organizations and other words.

I’m sure I’ve made posts that were good and bad in the past on Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube. I would prefer it if I could remove bad posts I’ve made in the past, but honestly, I doubt that if I were to make some of the older videos I posted on YouTube private, it would be harder to find if not unable to be accessed. But the thing is I tend to use Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and other social media platforms on a daily basis. If I deleted myself, it might throw people off. On Facebook, it’d be a surprise, but not so much as my YouTube account, especially if I have almost 950 subscribers. I’m close to 1,000, so if I were to just delete my account, it would make a big difference. Even so, someone did use one of my videos for her own pleasure, but she requested that I do it and I wouldn’t mind about it though.

Honestly, if I were to remove my older videos, it probably would not make so much of a difference that if I were to remove the newer ones. Back then, my fanbase wasn’t as huge as it would be now. And to be honest, some of the videos I did post back then were not as mature as the ones I post nowadays. It’s possible that the WebArchive could track down those old videos and photos, but since I don’t have as much subscribers as famous YouTubers such as James Rolfe or PewDiePie, it wouldn’t make much of an impact. And I feel the older videos are back when I lacked the tools I have now. FaceBook, Twitter, and other social media sites might not make a difference either. So really, the biggest impact I could make when deleting something would have to be from my YouTube channel. I’ll probably want to keep the newer videos as they do showcase my maturity to some extent. But I should be mindful REGARDLESS of where I post.

I know this is way off topic, but this is something everyone needs to understand. What you post now can affect you later down the road. Keep this in consideration.