Digital Tattoos--Blog #7
What?
When I saw the term Digital
Tattoo, I had something completely different in my mind. I thought the term
referred to actual tattoos that are digital. Nicole's explanation of
what is meant by digital tattoo made me stop and think. Did I put something
online that I regret? Will others find out something about me that I want to
keep private? How easy is it to find info about someone? Yikes!
Sites such as Nuwber, Truthfinder, Spokeo, and Pipl lists--AKA--teases you types of information about you, but there's a cost for a detailed report. Below are just a couple examples of what displays when I searched my name.
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| Nuwber Results |
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Nuwber led me to Truthfinder. I blocked out my family member's names.
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Searching my name and seeing my family member's names also display, was a little creepy, but I understand we live in era where privacy is dead. I get it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I wanted the perspective of someone who is in his twenty's. Kris said that he is in the minority of how his friends think--"My friends don't seem to mind, but I don't like having everything I do as public knowledge."
I didn't like that others can search my name, pay for reports about me, and I won't be notified that someone is "stalking" me.
When I searched my name via Google search, I wasn't surprised by the search results. I use Google often and often forget to put myself as
incognito and I think that happens, because I know by doing so, I'm still not invisible online.
Most of the search results revolved around my Facebook usage. I admit, I do like Facebook for a variety of reasons, from seeing photos of family members I don't see as often as I would like and to play games. I find playing games is a nice break from grading papers, it's like my own brain break. I'm also the admin for
St. William School's Facebook page, thus, many of the images and slideshows via Youtube were also listed. What I did find surprising is that comments I posted on Facebook, also appeared in the search results. Other search results included
: my classroom web page and this blog, and web page, Linkedin, G+, Twitter, White Pages,
just to name a few. I also looked at the images and there sure are a lot of
people out there with the same name as mine. The Linkedin search was
done out of curiosity because wanted to see what comes up when I searched
my name. I'm pleased with the display, because it looks professional and
viewers can clearly see that I'm an educator.
About Me is different that
I what I expected. I thought this would be yet another paid site that would
host too much info about me. This site claims that you are in control of what
your web presence is. After seeing all the sites that has info about me, not sure
how much control I would really have.
Social Mention--I'm not
mentioned anywhere, but after all the other places I found my name, I'm okay
with this.
Block Shopper--I wasn't
sure what this site was by the title, so I chose to check this one out. The
information about where I live is out of date and inaccurate. If I was buying a
home, I now know that this site is not
very reliable.
