Talk:Isaiah Gesinski

Hey Isaiah, I think your post is good overall and it includes the major points of the assignment. The format was easy to read and it's very interesting to read about someone like yourself who doesn't have a large online footprint. I'm the same way so i'm always interested to see how and why someone might contain their information in a way that doesn't allow easy access for people online. It was also pretty weird how little information is out there about you considering you had a public social media account for so long, let alone a Facebook profile which is notoriously leaky when it comes to personal information.

One thing I would do is talk less specifically about what you found and more conceptually about the types of things you were able to find. Maybe you could talk about why that data exists or what/if you were trying to accomplish anything by posting that info. To relate it back to the class and the ethics of technology and specifically your data, you could also talk more about the differences between the “online you” vs “physical you” throughout the post. You touched on this at the end of the post but I think it would be helpful to talk at greater lengths about it or integrate more of it into the whole post.

-Hayden Macfarlane

Kunal Singh Comments

This is a good post. It covers a lot of what is asked for in the rubric and you clearly spent time going through other data broker profiles to throughly search yourself. You talk a lot about how it is hard to find yourself on the internet which is great, but then I feel like you go into your life vs. how you are constructed online a little too much. There are too many facts or statements about yourself or how you are perceived on the internet instead of coming up with some kind of story about yourself on the internet. You do a good job in the beginning talking about why you think it is hard to find you on the internet as well as some of the other profiles. I think you should try to expand upon that and formulate thoughts or have some type of reflection about that later in your post. In terms of your writing, generally it is very sound. The one thing I noticed is that you ended sentences with "etc" or "and more" a few times which may be a little too casual for an article like that. You had a really solid post in general and I think doing a few of the things I mentioned will further strengthen your article.

Nate Lamoreaux’s comment

Hi Isaiah, I liked your post a lot, I thought it did a good job of highlighting your anonymity online and the accuracy of the data brokers. One thing I think you could do to improve upon is maybe adding another image from Google/Bing images. This could show just how accurate (or inaccurate) the internet thinks you look like. I feel like it would also be helpful if you made the “data broker” heading plural, since you talk about more than one. One last thing I would do is scan your intro for some writing errors, since I saw some sentences that were a little bit awkward to read. Other than that, I like how you’ve formatted your post, and I think you did a great job with it!