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While we have explained what steps you might take to explore the digital traces that make up your ‘digital shadow’, you will also need to enlarge this exploration to people you interact with online in order to gain a sense of what your online identity and various social networks 'look' like. Most of us have encountered challenging decisions about how to manage our personal, professional, and other ‘selves’ with our online accounts and identities. We may have only one identity that we use to connect with all our different networks, or we may have taken steps to ‘separate’ our identities online, even though this can entail creating and managing different accounts and the different ‘social domains’ we use them to interact with. This for instance has been an increasing safety issue for many activists, as their personal, professional, and activism networks can overlap in ways that can lead to greater levels of risk for our networks and us.