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FireFox Lightbeam

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This is a screen grab of 20 minutes of browsing the web using Firefox and it's Lightbeam addon. From this you can clearly see the amount of cookies you get when visiting a site and where the cookies are connected.

Google Search Syntax

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1.     How would you search for an exact word or phrase? To get more of an accurate result what you want to do is enclose the phrase or exact work in quotation marks . 2.     How would you search for something on a specific site? “Simply add " site:time.com " (or "site:nbc.com" or whichever site you want to search) after your search term, and you'll get all the instances of that term on that particular site. Results from the rest of the web will be filtered out.” (Aamoth, 2014) 3.     How would you correctly search for a definition? All you need to do for this is to put “ define ” in front of any word to see it’s definition. 4.     How would you search for a specific product available within a specific price range? First, type the same of a product in google and after that out a “ $ ” sign then the lowest of the price range. Then, press space and put another “ $ ” sign with the highest number in the price range. For examp

Protecting your Personal Brand Image

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( Belton, 2017)  In this modern era, social media plays a big role in the lives of more and more people as time goes on. This is highly due to the fact that, people like to make connections and stay in touch with their friends and family. Even though social media seems to be only positive, there are some aspects you must be aware and can come off as negative in the future. It is very important to be careful about what you post since it will around for very long time even if you delete it. (Bartram, 2011) With each new post, you are creating a brand image of yourself, and the image is built from all your posts. For example, if you have 30 pictures of yourself posted on Facebook of you partying, most employers will look down upon that. Employers will think that you are irresponsible and not reliable enough to do proper work. This is why you must make sure that anything you post should put out an image that shows you are a responsible, kind, and professional individual.