Talk:McKinley Schmidt

McKinley, Your data identity statement was interesting to read and had great parts to it! I believe that you were able to put it together in a narrative form nicely, which adds a good flow to the reading. Your introduction was great at its purpose of introducing what your article was about and what to expect from it. I also believe that you did well explaining your data broker report section, your google search section, as well as the information that was available from those methods. I believe it would be good to point out that any information you were able to collect on yourself by being logged into your social media accounts should be left out of your data identity statement altogether. I believe that this includes much of your social media section as i believe the list of information that Facebook compiles about you, and possibly the other social medias, can only be accessed by you through your account. Although your social media information should be included, you should keep this to information that is publicly available. The space that this takes up in your article could be filled with more of an attempt to construct a "digital" identity with the information that you were able to find about yourself, such as what your Linkedin and Youtube accounts say about you. Once you have a digital identity of yourself constructed from this information you can spend time focusing on what similarities or differences this identity has with your real identity, you have already partially done this by explaining a few parts of your searches that were not correct. I believe doing this will also present more opportunities to relate your online identity statement to class concepts and readings. Best of luck!

- Steven Allred