Talk:Hanping Zhong

Hanping:

I appreciate the conciseness of your wiki entry. I believe it’s appropriate in length and it was quite easy to read. I also found it interesting that you started off by sharing your findings from Baidu. Logically, it does make sense for you to start with Baidu, as you found more success over there. I wonder if it would be more beneficial for students who have spent most of their time in China to search themselves on Baidu rather than Google, assuming that said students used the Chinese social media counterparts.

As for suggestions, the first thing I noticed was the lack of images on your page. Considering this is your first draft, I would highly recommend adding pictures as part of page formatting and to make the reading more interesting if you haven’t considered it yet. The pictures don’t have to be extravagant, even adding a photo that shows no matches for your name in Databroker websites will enhance your claim by adding some visual evidence and stimulus.

Talking about formatting, I would also suggest you spend some time playing around with this. I acknowledge that we are probably all new to wiki-style writing, but right now your page is just comprised of blocks of text with a very “default” layout. Make sure to look into a table of contents, as this can help readers navigate through your page.

I really liked your last paragraph, as I believe that it incites questions and can be a discussion opener. I personally agree with your perspective; in today’s day and age, I truly think that privacy is close to non-existent and the problem seems to be getting worse by the day.

My last note would be to go over grammar and syntax before your final publication, as I did note some mistakes throughout your wiki entry.

I hope you find this helpful.

Best,

-William Zhang Sam

Yuki Fang

Hi Hanping,

I thought it was really interesting how you received different results when searching in Baidu vs in Google - but it makes sense since you spent so much more time in China than the US. The results in Baidu seem to highlight more personal achievements while the results in Google seem to bring up more of your social media accounts.

For suggestions, I would recommend breaking the text down to even more subheadings - I see you bolded several words but I think you should break them into separate lines so it looks like you have main points for each topic. Looking at other students' wiki pages will definitely help you out here. It's also somewhat intimidating to read huge blocks of text without knowing what it's going to be about. On top of that, you should add some pictures on your page! It can grab the reader's attention visually, encourage them to continue reading, help break down the huge chunks of text, and give some context to what you're writing about.

The last paragraph was a great insight into your take on privacy - I really agree that there are many positive use cases for data scraping despite the negative outlook on media. However, I do think you can improve your conclusion by clarifying the last 2 sentences - I understand what you're implying but it did not connect with your previous sentences well.

Good job though!

Best, Yuki

Hi Hanping,

I like your post, I believe it does a great job at establishing what you’re going to be talking about for the rest of the wiki page. While I enjoyed the first paragraph I feel like you mention the results from the Baidu. It would be a nice thing to reference the use of it in the introduction section however I believe it might be too soon to dive into the details about it. In addition to this, it might also help to have a whole section of the wiki dedicated to your data broker results. You mention that the data broker both misses and catches certain details about you and it would be interesting to see you mention all the examples from the data broker and what you think about them. Lastly, I like your concluding paragraph and how it comes full circle back to your introduction with your privacy idea. Good job though!

Best,

Chao