Minimizing your digital footprint

With business and in life we are always on social media or some sort of digital device, posting, commenting, and sometimes even slightly stalking people, you know what I mean. Social media and this digital era has changed the way we communicate. We hardly ever write a letter to someone anymore, we just hop online and send them an email or message them on Facebook. If we want to talk with someone on the phone we don't call them that would be to easy. We have to text them 100 texts to tell them a story or get your point across, when if we just hit the dial button we could tell them the story or whatever you want to tell them in about 2 minutes rather than 2 hours.

This digital era is amazing and it has made our lives a lot easier in so many ways, but it has also taken away some human interactions that were nice to have like talking on the phone with someone for hours not just texting them wondering to yourself what did they really mean with that text. The phone call is just so clear to understand. This is particularly true for people who are dating or teenagers. I am married now thank goodness and I love my wife to death. But before I was married and I was dating and I would  be texting someone, and they would say something in texts and I would just think to myself what does this mean.....do they like me or not, do they want to hang out or are they sick or me. It was just so confusing and you can decipher a text message so many ways it drives you nuts. Now I'm not saying that texting is bad, but if we just picked the phone up sometimes it would be a lot more clear what the person was saying or feeling; because not only does someones words send a message, but there tone of voice sends a message as well.

Back to the texting issue really quick, with a text once you send it it is there forever it can be recovered even after you delete it. So there are some great up and coming companies that are trying to help us minimize our digital footprint to save us from future lawsuits, stealing of ideas, and so many other things. One of the big up and coming companies is called Cyber Dust. It is a messaging service that allows you to send a message to another Cyber Dust messenger and 24 seconds after the message is sent it disappears from your phone forever and 24 seconds after the message is read on the other phone it disappears forever as well, and if the message is screenshot you will be notified. The technology is great and is really going to benefit everyone especially those in business just to help you minimize your digital footprint. Mark Cuban is one of the founders of this amazing company so you know it is something good. Click the link below to learn more about this great app Cyber Dust. Then download it onto your smartphone to begin the process of reducing and minimizing your digital footprint.

There are also two short clip about Cyber Dust from Mark Cuban.

http://www.cyberdust.com/