Hello Class,
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Labor Day Weekend. This week in class I will be covering time-management and how important it is in order to succeed in your academic career. Please take 4 minutes to watch this short youtube video on time-management before Thursday so that we might have a full and hearty discussion.
Best,
Katelynn
This assignment required me to Google my own name and find the strangest or weirdest thing that came up. The first thing that came up was Yelp review of a Jorge Rodriguez Jr. aka me. In this case, instead of me being a student and construction worker, he was a well known personal trainer. This particular case wasn’t as weird because he was a personal trainer, but because I had been employed by a gym for almost three years up until a few months ago. Initially when I saw the review and Facebook page crediting this man’s personal training I immediately thought to myself, “Wow why didn’t I ever do this!” There were so many great reviews about this guy similar to the ones I received at the gym yet never made the time to create such an outgoing source like a Facebook page dedicated solely to my art. Personal training should be considered an art and it is by most since lifting weights and eating right isn’t something that everybody does, nor is it easy to do. You have to be professor, and as an athlete the best way to approach working out is as a student. Just like how you would approach school. I chose the personal training Jorge Rodriguez Jr. because he touched base on a huge part of me and opened my eyes to what possibilities there is for someone like me who is a full advocate of promoting higher self esteem through physical accomplishment.
When I first read what this assignment was about I found it odd to be googling my own name. I had never thought about looking myself up, so when I did it I was surprised to see that there were not very many things that came up with my complete name. There was some Thalia’s and various Fernandez’s used but very few were actually put together. Some of the things that popped up the most were Facebook pages, none of which were actually mine, and youtube songs of the Mexican singer and actress Thalia. This was kind of interesting to me because my mom actually named me after her, so seeing that she was the most popular thing to show up when looking up my name was kind of neat. This touches a internal subject for me because I have always loved spanish music and singing it even though I only do it privately because I am so shy. Secretly I wish I was able to do what she does and sing my heart out but I listen from afar and enjoy the music for what it is. After looking up my name with my current employer, I did not see my first name in any of the posts. All posts only had my last name and some sort of fitness reference to it, which makes sense because I work at a gym. I did not find much of this to be too strange, but the neatest thing for me was to see how close of a relation my name had to the person I was named after and I looked up to.
I was definitely very anxious to find out what things are out in the internet. When i googled my name, I was pleased to find that there wasn’t too alarming about myself. Although I did find something embarrassing, my old MySpace account. I hadn’t seen it in years. I went to my site and went straight to deleting it. But before that, I saved a few pictures I had uploaded there that weren’t saved anywhere else. There were a few good memories. Mostly old pictures with friends. As soon as they were saved, I waisted no time in looking through it. I didn’t want to relive those middle days again.
A few other links that popped up on the google search were Facebook and Twitter. I rarely use Facebook. Maybe even only to check birthday comments every year. Facebook started to bore me and I even deactivated it for about a year at one point. I don’t need to read about drama and gossip for people I no longer talk too. I think the reason I still have it is to stay in touch with family. Especially those who live in Mexico.
The only social media site I still use frequently is Instagram. I love photography and Instagram is a perfect place to share my photos. I like to share where I like to spend my free time. Most of the time outdoors. I recently even deleted all of my pictures for a fresh start. Although there wasn’t a particular reason to do so, it felt very nice.
I am more aware of the dangers of posting things online. I will be more conscious about what I post.
Hi everyone, Ryland here. So let’s see. I unknowingly started my audit process last week when I looked myself up on google and found and deleted my embarrassing old Myspace account. It’s definitely a different experience looking up your own self, and finding what other people could easily find about you. I found a few pictures of myself, and one of my sister and father. I also found a bunch of pictures of female celebrities like Jessica Alba, and Blake Lively who I love both equally so that was pretty wicked!
So I’ll start explaining some things I found in my audit below. 
Here is one picture of me posing with a “Sash” that my little girl cousins and one boy cousin made for me. They dressed me up a few times with silly accessories and told me to model, which I did and I think I look pretty cool. I posted this on my old Instagram and don’t even have this picture anymore so that was really interesting to find.
Here is another old picture of me on my old Instagram. I am there, beardless in a pink bowling pin and slightly am lifting up my skirt. One of my good friends is in the other one trying to give me a hug. That was really awesome to find as well. It was one of my former flames (She’s not in the picture obviously) birthday parties and we went bowling. They thought I wouldn’t be down to put on the girl pin and take the picture, but I obviously was more then ready for it. Again, I don’t own this picture, so that was pretty weird but cool to find this.
It was a pretty eye opening experience to see everything that strangers can see on me. It was awesome though!
Have a great day!
-Ryland!
While doing my digital footprint audit something that really surprised me was that any sort of social media sites such as Instagram or twitter did not show up for me even when I put my name and the social media site. Instead of social media sites something that did show up was my max preps site that was created for me when I played football in high school. After I looked at that I did an image search of my name and the city I’m from and looking through a bunch of pages I was not able to find any pictures of me. I believe this was because Whittier is highly latino city and my name is a typical latino name so a bunch of other hits for people of the same name probably got searched instead of me. While doing the search for just my name certain things that I found is that there is a major league pitcher that used to play for the pirates that shares my name as I continued to search under there I discovered there was also many minor athletes that share my name in the fields of boxing, basketball, and ultimate fighting. Going through the news tab other then the pitcher from the pirates I noticed that there were several news stories of people who shared my name that were getting arrested and put into prison. Overall, I was really surprised that none of my social media showed up but looking at how many Michael Gonzalez’ there were I made sense to me.
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The digital footprint audit was an exercise that I have performed before on my own. Nevertheless I was able to find some new things out that I had not seen in my previous searches. My name is very unique and although there are people out there with a similar name there isn’t really anyone with the exact spelling of my name. When I type in my first and last name there are a few things that come up. One of them being a picture from my facebook referencing where I went to high school. This was a little strange to me due to the fact that I didn’t think that my highschool and my social media sites were connected but I guess that shows how much I know about the internet. These pictures were in the web part of my search. When I went to the images I noticed that there were pictures on there that I had taken with my phone and a lot of them were of my good friend Daniel who almost passed away due to a really bad motorcycle accident last year. This was strange because I thought that I had only backed up my phone to my computer but I guess some pictures have leaked out for the public to see. When I went to the news section of my search I was reminded of a guinness book world record I had set at x games 16 in 2010. I had a feeling that this was going to show up but I found it under very different circumstances than the previous times I have searched for it. This is why I printed out a part of it to bring and share with the class.
There was also some pictures and connections to previous semester at santa barbara city college where I had done some assignments for several online classes with a group and their names and pictures showed up as well. The teachers to those online classes were conned to my name assignments and tools we had used throughout the semester. Last but not least there were a few videos of some biking and snowboarding that I had made years ago and those were very easy to access and view. When I typed in my name in parentheses I noticed that there were a lot of connections to the misspelling of my last name and when I typed it in with social media sites they were right there and easy to view. All in all this assignment showed me that it can be really scary having your name out there on the internet so easily accessible for anyone to view. This is why we must be careful on what we share with the world for safety and so that we have a great chance at getting that dream job in the future.
Technology has become a really important tool in our lives. After searching myself in the internet I was really surprised of my findings. I use a lot of social media in order to stay communicated with my friends and family who don’t live near me, Even thou I have always kept in mind of how nothing is private, I never imagined of how much someone can know about myself by doing a simple google search. Although I did not find my Facebook directly, I did find my pinterest account. I was surprised to see my pinterest profile picture under the image search but I did not see any of the pictures I have on my Instagram nor on my Facebook. I was also really surprised on how I was able to find information about my academic achievements by searching my name and the name of the schools I have attended. Besides being surprised about the findings on this challenge I also became really aware of how nothing is private in the web. All the activities we have performed this past weeks have make me realized how important is to be more mindfully on what we decide to share online. We have enter an era where companies search their interest applicants’ social media profiles in order to obtain more information about the individual’s personal life. It is very important to respect ourselves and to be wise about what we decide to share with our different social medias. Posting something inappropriate can bring really serious consequences; for instance it can make the difference between obtaining a job opportunity or not.
When I did the ” My digital foot print” I was like okay lets see what kind of stuff I find about myself. When I googled my name I found a tons of people named Ricardo Esparza and none of those people were me. So then I put my high school name at the end and I just found my name in Max preps where it showed that I played soccer and football for my high school but I found no pictures. Then I googled my name and the city i live in Oxnard. I still didn’t find anything but I found my dads Facebook and the shop he use to own and I worked at. Nothing surprising and then I googled all the user names for my social media accounts and I popped up. It showed my old myspace page and it showed links to my friends profiles too. I think my myspace was private so it didn’t show that many pictures just my old profile picture on images. I also put my instagram username and it popped up and its public and nothing to hide. Its kind of scary though knowing people can just type in your name and something else like your city or school name and your information can pop up real quickly. Even if you have nothing to hide and don’t care who sees it, still to me is pretty uncomfortable. but then again it can be useful if your trying to do some research on that person , not in a stalking way though.
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