Kelsey Strode Google Search

I started by searching my hometown using the New York Times census website, and looking at the Milwaukee area zoomed out, it looks diverse. Once I started to zoom in, however, it is clear that within Milwaukee county, blacks, whites and Hispanics are very segregated; the town in Milwaukee in which I live, Whitefish Bay, is particularly dominated by white citizens. I then went to Facebook and viewed my profile as the public sees it. I was not really surprised by what I found, but several aspects of my identity and my life were made clear. It is obvious I attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and through the pictures that the public is able to see, its evident that I also studied and traveled abroad in and traveled throughout Europe last year. Some of the groups that I am a part of on Facebook were public information for people and those confirm my status as a UW Madison student. After viewing my profile on Facebook, I did a simple Google search of my name, email and phone number. Some of the results that came up were Facebook results for Kelsey Strode, but they actually were not me. My email address surfaced a link to the UW Madison study abroad page, which confirms that information which someone would be able to learn through my Facebook, and no information was available through a search of my cell phone number. I never realized how much information someone can collect about a person, whether or not they know him or her, through simple searches on the internet, and how accurate the information is.