EDU 790: Week 5 Digital Tattoos

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2/10/18

Hello,

In this week's post, I will be discussing my Digital Tattoos. As someone who has quite a few tattoos, I was interested in the meaning behind digital tattoos.  After hearing the explanation on why the term should be digital tattoo rather than digital footprint, I agree that tattoo is the more appropriate term.  Everything you put on the internet can be found once again.  Nothing really goes away. Of course there are ways to remove things, just like real tattoos, but most things on the internet are there to stay. Now the challenge is knowing the right places to look.

I was honestly hoping to find some funny posts from my old Myspace or Match.com profiles. I have actually been thinking about looking back into my Match profile. I met my wife on that platform and we have been together for almost five years. It would be hilarious to see our first online interactions.  However, I had no such luck.

When I used Google and searched my gmail account name, the only information I found was my Pinterest and Linkedin accounts.  The rest of them were some other Theresa M Kelly. I also found a different Teresa Kelly with the same birthday! How crazy!? I guess I never realized how many of us there were out there.
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When I searched my personal Twitter handle, I found posts and images from my favorite Pintrest boards.  Most images were funny science cartoons and images of my favorite bands. The search retrieved over five pages of results, but only a few of of the hits were about me.  My professional Twitter brought up a lot more accurate results.  The search connected me to my workplace and many of my coworkers.  Most of which have been tagged in Tweets together.  I was able to find all of the images I posted from sports to clubs and conferences I attended.
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When I searched myself using Pipl, Nuwber, Radaris, Peekyou and a few others, I found a lot of incorrect information.  On some sites, the correct Theresa Kelly never came up. I got creeped out on other sites that had check lists for things like criminal record and sex offender. Nothing came up, but still creepy to think about.  Pipl connected me to most of my family, but had incorrect informatoin about where I am from.
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 Probably the funniest thing I found was information about myself and my family on Radaris. They have my hometown correct, but take a look at my father's name.  The first name listed is from junk mail that my dad purposefully misspelled his name. This tells me that this site is getting information from so unreliable resources.
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Something I took away from doing a data dig on myself is that I really need to step up my professional presences online.  You can find information from using my professional Twitter handle, but other than that, you won't find anythign about my professional work.  I need to make a goal to Tweet more and to make more of an effort to create a positive professional digital tattoo.








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  1. Amy AFebruary 12, 2018 at 8:54 AM

    When I dug into my digital tattoo I also found very little professional information on myself. Since then I have made my Twitter account public and am warming up to the idea of creating a more robust online presence. It takes time to build an online presence and I want to make sure that the information that is available is meaningful and professional.

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