Talk:Maggie O'Meara

Comment from Nico Figueroa: Hey Maggie! I really enjoyed your writing, the methodology of splitting up your online presence is a great way to illustrate your main idea of companies (and the whole internet) never really having a full picture of who we are. I think you cover a few very important topics: biases in data, data collection and the importance of privacy. You do a phenomenal job of describing how your internet presence is technically accurate but not necessarily representative, which is very interesting.

I just have one piece of feedback that I hope could be helpful: It might be useful to the reader to segment the Data Policies and Data Identities sections a little bit with sub headers, just to have an easy way to contextualize the writing that is coming up. I think you could benefit from it the most under Data Policies where you talk about the different sub-topics in your article.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading your article, the main idea is provocative and supported by years of social media usage which is awesome.

Great article, thanks for sharing!

Comment from Ali Baker

Hi Maggie,

I enjoyed reading through your identity statement. I thought you had an engaging writing style that kept me interested throughout the essay and I also thought you were able to tie your ideas and thoughts together pretty well. The structure of your essay flows well, I like how you discussed how each of your social media profiles could show you a different side of your identity and then talked about how your relationship with these applications are always changing. I also like how you tied in the readings within this essay, talking about ethical implications of using these applications with regards to the data you provide and the identity you form.

To improve your identity statement, I would recommend including a section where you try to find yourself on some search engine or a data broker. Try to find out how easy it is to build a profile of yourself after Googling your name rather than just relying on your social media profiles. This could allow you to talk more about the ethical implications of having your data out there for anyone to see.