Talk:Avinash Bevoor

Comment by Kevin Zheng:

Hey Avinash, I really enjoyed reading your avatar page!

First, I loved how you compared your online identity as a caricature of your real identity. I thought that was a great metaphor. I think it’s great how you showcased all aspects of your online search with both the accurate information and inaccurate information that is available about yourself on the internet as well as utilizing a diverse set of search engines to help you achieve that. The fact that you had the intuition that your search results might have been tailored to you and found ways around that through the use of incognito mode was also a very smart approach as a way to understand what typical users may see when they search for your name online. You were very clear about a lot of information online being mostly accurate in relation to you to the point where it was quite frightening, but also made sure to address that there was also some information not entirely accurate or even related to you at all.

While you do discuss the relationship between your online identity and your real identity, a majority of your page only states what kind of information online about you is accurate or inaccurate. I would love to see more of an analyzed comparison and contrast on how your online identity relates to your real identity. Maybe consider what the information portrayed online of you can lead other people to think about your identity and how that correlates with your real identity. Other than that, I think your overall style and flow of writing were absolutely stellar. Good job!

Comment from Nerissa Wang:

Hey Avinash, great read! I enjoyed the journey you took on uncovering your data identity, especially with searching for both your full name and your nickname with the different results they had produced. Also, applying your searches to three different platforms, Google, databrokers, and social media, was a really nice touch in all three of those platforms provide for relatively different results. You took it even further to find the privacy policies of the platforms you searched yourself on, I'm loving the comprehensive approach you took to uncovering your online data identity.

Something that could potentially strengthen the page is to make the purpose of analyzing your identity clear in your introduction. I see that you're prefacing how you approach your searches, but I don't see perhaps a general comparison between authenticity or accuracy of the data you're getting in your intro. If you can let the readers know what exactly you're looking for in these searches, I believe the page would flow better. Overall, intriguing read!