Talk:Jacey Workum

Emily Fischer's Comment

I really enjoyed reading this! You have a very unique voice in your writing, and I thought the whole thing flowed very well. I really liked how you compared the version of you represented by your social media profiles to the information you were able to find through a Google search. I also really liked the organization of this article-- the headers made sense and were coherent. Given your unique name, it is a bit surprising that you were not able to find much information about yourself online, especially via the data broker report. However, I think it's important to note that you actually ended up finding more information than a lot of people (myself included). For example, a Google search of my own name rendered zero pictures of myself, but you were able to find several. I would have liked to have read more analysis about your findings. You briefly discuss how this exercise made you question the idea of identity, and I think that would be a great topic to further explore! Or you could talk more about how the fact that your address and phone number are publicly available online disturbs your privacy. You could also tie the readings into these ideas! That being said, again, I really enjoyed this post. Great job!

Thomas Van Conett

Hi Jacey,

I loved the layout of your article! It's strange that there seems to be so little information aggregated about you despite the fact that you seem to have quite an extensive internet footprint, including your YouTube channels. I am curious to know how you found your basic information so easily while the data brokers seem to have had some trouble, however I certainly understand why you may want to exclude your methods and sources for this article. I especially enjoyed the "What's Missing" section of your article where you explore your identity and what control you possess over the image you have on the internet. This might be an interesting topic to explore further throughout your article, and not just as one piece of the whole. I don't know if you had a chance to try other search engines, but they may be another additional source of information that you could consider for your profile. I found a number of different sources useful in finding exactly what it is that the internet has collected on me. Again, great article!

Taylor Denby's Comment

Hey Jacey,

I really enjoyed reading your article! I liked how you brought up the fact that you expected to find more about yourself from a Google search; I also assumed that there would be more about myself on the internet, given that my social media accounts haven't always been private and I assumed there was some kind of archive out there. I also found it interesting how easy it is to find more information about yourself from a Google search than from the data brokers checked on the internet. It definitely seems like the data brokers don't do an extensive search and simply use public records and user submitted information. I thought you did a positive job explaining all of the information that is available of you from a Google search. Like a commenter above me, I agree that it would be interesting to hear a little more about what is missing and who the real you is as opposed to the public version of you someone could find from a Google search, however otherwise I think that you did a great job.