Talk:Darian Chang
Comment by Kevin Zheng:
Hey Darian, I really liked reading your avatar page and it gave me a lot of insight!
First, I liked how you began by talking about your name and the uniqueness of it. I for sure can say that you’re the only Darian I’ve ever come across or heard of. As someone with a rather common name myself, I think it was important that you mentioned the consequences of having such a unique name and talked about how it makes it a lot easier to find information about yourself with a quick online search.
As I was reading through, I also realized how difficult it must be to keep your online identity private with a name like yours. I think it’s great how you utilized a diverse set of search engines to help broaden the information you would find about yourself on the internet. Also, the fact that you used incognito mode as a method to work around data tracking and cookies was a brilliant approach to remove any sort of bias that may have shown up in your search results. I also loved how you made inferences about what your displayed information online could lead people to think about in regards to your identity and how that relates to your real identity too. You did a great job of incorporating realistic assumptions people can make both professionally and casually about yourself based on search results seen on the internet.
However, your avatar page talks mostly only about what accurate parts of your online identity relate to your real identity rather than the opposite. I think you can try diving deeper into what inaccurate information is online about you and make an analysis on how that portrayal of your online identity correlates to your real identity as well. Overall, I think you did an absolutely stellar job in both style and flow!
Comment from Avinash Bevoor
Hey Darian, I really enjoyed reading your page!
Like you, I have a pretty unique name and it is relatively easy to find me online if you know what to look for. It is kind of scary realizing how much information we make available about ourselves without even realizing it.
While reading your page one thing that I really liked was how you talked about your data identity changing with you as you aged. While you mentioned that some of the information about you was current, other parts of your data identity were from when you were in middle school and high school. One thing I think you could also mention is how your data identity tends to lag behind your own personal growth. You talk about how there are a lot of photos of you from your past, but don't mention there being a lot from your present identity. Is this because you have stopped posting online? Or have you just set your accounts to private? I would love to hear more about how your data identity has been influenced by your own interactions with social media and the internet.
Overall, I really liked your avatar page and you do a good job of examining the ways in which you do and do not represent the person that you find online!
