Online reputation

Everything that is put on the internet can be accessed by anybody. It's the simple fact of this day and age, pictures, videos, documents, anything can be discovered with a simple Google search. To show how much I could find about a classmate, Cami Stephenson, I searched several websites. While Cami does a good job at keeping sites such as Facebook private, I was still able to dig up some information.

Cami is 21 years old, and attends Utah State University, with a public relations major. She grew up in Kaysville, Utah, and went to Davis high school. While she was in middle school she took third place on a billboard idea for an anti-tobacco campaign. In high school she was the star in the play "Aida" playing as Aida.

Cami is LDS and attends the USU 53rd ward. She wants to one day become a country singer, and country music is her favorite to listen to. She hopes to move to Nashville and attend Vanderbilt to become a lawyer. Cami is also a Libra, and enjoys playing sports like running, volleyball, and basketball among others.

While Cami did a great job at hiding most of her personal information, there still was a bit that was leaked through. Her blog was the most telling, as it told of her daily events and had plenty of pictures of herself on it. Her Facebook was set to private, so very little information could be gathered there aside from groups and pages that she follows, and her friends list. Other things were found just by searching her name, and visiting a Myspace page that she hasn't been on since 2005.

It is almost frightening how easy it is to find information on people just by doing a web search. While Cami did do a good job, it is obvious that anyone can find out a considerable amount about a person online.

Adam


Sources:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/07323395561314924846
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=748287760&ref=search&sid=530625734.1543302142..1
http://joie-ful.blogspot.com/
http://my.hsj.org/Portals/2/schools/733/editions/DavisHighIssue5.pdf
http://www.myspace.com/17770494
http://health.utah.gov/pio/nr/2003/0521-Tobacco.pdf