When you add the word digital to old ideas like rights, citizenship, or literacy, the meaning shifts. It is not about paper, laws, or classrooms anymore. It is about online accounts, data trails, and how people act when they are behind a screen. Rights now include things like who can see your data and what companies do with it. Citizenship is not only about the country you live in. It shows in how you talk to people online and how you act in digital spaces. And literacy is not just reading and writing. It is knowing how to spot fake information, how to protect your privacy, and how to use digital tools without getting tricked.

Here is the thing. You cannot protect your digital rights if you do not understand what is happening on the screen. If someone does not understand how online systems work, they can give away their information without knowing it. They can click the wrong link or trust the wrong source. And that ties straight into digital citizenship. You cannot act responsibly online if you cannot even tell when something is real or fake. You need basic digital skills to talk to people respectfully, keep yourself safe, and avoid causing problems for others.

All of this connects to cybersecurity, which is the field I want to work in. It is not only about computers. It is about people and how they behave online. Every account, every app, and every website comes with risks. And someone has to understand those risks well enough to protect others. So I know I will need strong technical skills, but that is only part of it. I also need to understand how regular people use technology and where they make mistakes.

When I look ahead, I know the field will keep changing. Attacks are getting smarter. Artificial intelligence is making things even more complicated. And people put more of their lives online every year. So the skills I require will not stay the same forever. I will have to keep learning. I will need to understand human behavior just as much as I understand systems.

Digital literacy sits in the middle of all of this. If I want to help protect people, I need to know how they move through the digital world. I need to understand how they read information, what they trust, and what confuses them. And that brings me back to the main point. Digital rights, digital citizenship, and digital literacy all connect. They shape how people live their lives online, and they shape the kind of work I plan to do. And that is why they matter for my future.