Talk:Jack Hessinger

Comment from Zoe Zemper: Hi Jack, this was a great data identity statement and a fun read. I found it interesting how you wrote that results about you have grown over time since googling yourself in high school. It was also interesting that your friend’s fake account comes up before your own on twitter and how that makes your data identity less accurate. I thought you made a good point that LinkedIn is a very manicured version of yourself, and that it’s not necessarily perfectly accurate and I think you could explain that further. It was also fun to talk about your interests that aren’t reflected online and I think this could maybe go further, do you plan on sharing other types of interests now because of this project? Will you try to make your twitter less sports-focused? I also think you could talk more about the ease of finding your information, how much did you have to dig to get to your personal profiles over others with the same name? Overall, great article!

Lily Jin's Comment

Hi Jack, I thought your Wikipage was insightful and unique given your recent start to social media. We had similar ideas on how we both assumed that there are older, more established people with our same names on the internet, and therefore we would be ranked lower in a Google Search. Your observation that most of the information collected about yourself online was self-provided is a fair point that's worth doing some introspection with, especially since you found that only very specific aspects of yourself were portrayed through your LinkedIn and Twitter. I'm interested in knowing why you weren't interested in social media in high school since a lot of people might argue that a lot of cultural currency for young people is derived from the internet, and how that could have shaped your habits or attitude on the importance of social media. Additionally, you could go more in-depth on the fake profile your friend created for you-- what were their reasons for creating this and did it make you uncomfortable at all that this is an element of your digital persona you don't control?

Comment from Ali Baker

Hi Jack,

I enjoyed reading through your identity statement. I thought the structure of the essay was very clear and each idea connected to one another. I liked your analysis of your online media presence on LinkedIn and Twitter, talking about how people can draw certain information about your personality, interests, and skills as a person. I also like how you mentioned the traits and interests that Google missed, indicating that the internet doesn’t really give the full picture of your character.

To improve your identity statement, I would recommend discussing the ethical implications of having your data online available for everyone to see. Are you comfortable with parts of your identity being so easily revealed by just a simple Google search? Are they revealing things that you want to be kept private?