Talk:Stephanie Schouman

I really enjoyed that you discussed the idea of our online personalities abilities to be shaped by the choices of our past, like a nick name change, and how this choice could help mask the actual identity of your name legality in real life. It is a really good segway into talking about the different identities we hold ourselves in online environments. I think it was great how you talked about how all the data on social media you chose to release about your self depends on your relationship with the people who will have access to the data. This fact directly correlates with a person's offline presence, or lack there of, in your life. If would be really interesting to continue this battle between both of your names, Steph and Stephanie, on the online environment by showing side by side comparisons of both searches and gaging which one seems more data rich (Don't necessary put the data points out there though if you do not feel comfortable doing that). I liked the idea that it was not the revealing of content related to a specific online environment that was an infringement of privacy but rather the accumulation of those data points into a neat little package that was an infringement, breaching a concept you talked about call "conceptual integrity". Awesome piece of work. -Isabell Astor

Zi's comment

Hey Steph,

I really enjoyed the relatable tone of your piece, as per usual. It allowed me to vividly see how you were navigating the search process, and I also like the snarkiness as it kept my attention while reading your piece. Additionally, I enjoyed the section headers (perhaps put a bit of snark into those?) as it further made the piece easy to read.

In terms of critique, your authenticity is really in your tone, but not so much in your reflections. I'm wondering how someone would view you if they were able to coordinate all the different parts of your digital identity (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) as well as how you personally approach Facebook in light of all the cringe; do you delete all past posts, or do you just focus on posting less cringe-worthy stuff in the future? Are you going to attempt to further distance yourself from publically available information by changing your Facebook name even more? How do you act differently in light of this search?

Furthermore, I found the David Shoemaker ideas relevant, but it seemed to transition rather abruptly in the middle of the "Instant Checkmate" section. Still, my favorite sentence ("Separately, this data seems relatively nonthreatening, but when pulled together, there is a sudden shift between being an anonymous record in a database to someone having a very clear picture of how to contact me, my immediate family or show up at our front door") came from that paragraph so I'm not entirely complaining.

Happy revising, hope this helps!!