Difference between revisions of "Talk:David Schindler"

Revision as of 22:58, 18 February 2020

Annabel Allen's Comments:

Hi David, this article did a good job of covering your digital presence from the persona you hope to project on the internet, to information that may represent you. The order of your sections flowed well and your voice really came through in the writing. I also found interesting your points about how the internet can be both impermanent and permanent and how little control we have over it. My grandpa's obituary also turned up in my searches and since he was never an internet user, it is probably the only thing online that shows a little bit about who he was as a person. I found it kind of comforting that this tribute to him could be lasting on the internet in a way that was attached to me.

Overall you made some good conclusions about your data and how it compared to what you expected and what you actually wanted shared about you. It seems you have a pretty good handle on your online identity. In a revision, I would be interested in you elaborating a bit more on how you feel this current online representation of yourself compares to who you really are. Additionally, the section "Googling My Name and Town" could perhaps have been broken up into two sections: one on the disappearance of data about you that you expected to be permanent, and another on the way the appearances of your dad in your searches of yourself showed permanence you may have not expected.

Review from Rachel Kaufman-Levine:

I really enjoyed reading your data profile! I especially liked how you chose to divide the content on the page. Doing so made the piece flow well and helped to keep me engaged as I was reading. My only suggestion regarding the structure would be to consider making the "Overview" section first instead of "My Real Identity" as it seems to make more sense that way. Something else that I really liked about your profile is that when you googled yourself you searched both your name as well as your name and town. This adds depth that would not have otherwise been there, specifically the part about your dad, which I thought was the strongest part of your profile. However, I agree with Annabel's suggestion to break this section into two sections.

I also found your conclusion quite interesting. In my profile, I talk about how I don't like that my unique last name makes it incredibly easy to find all of my data online and not have it be mixed up with someone else's data. To me, I find this scary because I would prefer to keep my identity private online and leave it up to me who gets access to my data and who doesn't. It seems that you sort of feel this way too based on the discomfort you expressed in the "Googling My Full Name" section when you discussed the voting registration website. I agree that it's cool to see people's content that they put out on the Web as well as news articles etc that discuss their accomplishments. What troubles me, though, is that the information that always comes up first for me when I search myself on google is websites that I didn't know about that contain my personal information that I didn't want to be public information. With this, I think it could be beneficial for you to discuss the difference in your feelings about your private information being public and your feelings about being able to see information that people choose to publicize as well as news articles about their accomplishments.