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| − | [[File: | + | == Introduction == |
| − | + | I was actually kind of expecting to find much information about my online presence, or at least something I didn’t know was exposed online. As an international student from China, I have a very short history of using the current popular social media, such as Facebook and Snapchat. I’ve been in the US for roughly 4 years, and I hardly ever leave my personal information online, except on the big social media apps. | |
| + | Maybe it is because my name is very unique? Or maybe those people who have the same name as me also like to keep quiet on the internet, and they never leave their personal information online? Anyway, I’ve tried different data brokers, Google, or the search engines that people use in China, but I found very limited information related to my name. | ||
| + | [[File:me.png|right|150px]] | ||
| + | == Google == | ||
| + | If you typed my name, Zhongfu Bai, you will only find information about one person, and those are what I have been released on social media. You can find my GitHub account, and that’s where I keep all my public projects. You can find my LinkedIn profile page, with all personal info about my career. The others are my Facebook and Instagram pages, and there are some photos of my American life that I upload in the last 4 years. Apart from those, there’s no other information related to my name. | ||
| + | [[File:zhongfuResult.png|left|150px]] | ||
| + | ==== Baidu ==== | ||
| + | Since I spend most of my life in China without access to Google, I guess it’s reasonable that there are not many things about me on Google. Then I will try to look for my online presence on the search engine that I used the most in China, which is Baidu. To my surprise, after I entered my Chinese name in the search engine, I didn’t get anything about me, but I found info about another person in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. He’s currently managing a meat market in his town. | ||
| + | == Conclusion == | ||
| + | Although I’ve tried my best to find my online presence on various data brokers or search engines, the amount of information related to my name is very limited. However, I’m pretty sure that there are tons of my personal information in the database of social media companies, and they are not exposed to the public. For example, Amazon must have my shopping record, Apple has all my photos and my Apple Pay credit card, Google has all my browsing history, etc. Even though I couldn’t find much info with search engines or data brokers, it doesn’t mean I don’t have an online presence, and my online presence is just secretly hidden. | ||
Revision as of 15:44, 15 February 2020
Contents
Introduction
I was actually kind of expecting to find much information about my online presence, or at least something I didn’t know was exposed online. As an international student from China, I have a very short history of using the current popular social media, such as Facebook and Snapchat. I’ve been in the US for roughly 4 years, and I hardly ever leave my personal information online, except on the big social media apps. Maybe it is because my name is very unique? Or maybe those people who have the same name as me also like to keep quiet on the internet, and they never leave their personal information online? Anyway, I’ve tried different data brokers, Google, or the search engines that people use in China, but I found very limited information related to my name.
If you typed my name, Zhongfu Bai, you will only find information about one person, and those are what I have been released on social media. You can find my GitHub account, and that’s where I keep all my public projects. You can find my LinkedIn profile page, with all personal info about my career. The others are my Facebook and Instagram pages, and there are some photos of my American life that I upload in the last 4 years. Apart from those, there’s no other information related to my name.
Baidu
Since I spend most of my life in China without access to Google, I guess it’s reasonable that there are not many things about me on Google. Then I will try to look for my online presence on the search engine that I used the most in China, which is Baidu. To my surprise, after I entered my Chinese name in the search engine, I didn’t get anything about me, but I found info about another person in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. He’s currently managing a meat market in his town.
Conclusion
Although I’ve tried my best to find my online presence on various data brokers or search engines, the amount of information related to my name is very limited. However, I’m pretty sure that there are tons of my personal information in the database of social media companies, and they are not exposed to the public. For example, Amazon must have my shopping record, Apple has all my photos and my Apple Pay credit card, Google has all my browsing history, etc. Even though I couldn’t find much info with search engines or data brokers, it doesn’t mean I don’t have an online presence, and my online presence is just secretly hidden.
