First and foremost, the amount of information I was able to find was creepy. Professor Teaff and Professor Abdoney are both colleges educated middle-aged white women living in Lexington VA. Judging from liked posts and followed accounts they are both liberals or leftward leaning politically speaking. Smaller details are they both are cat owners and Professor Abdoney is married with a son. Despite being a part of similar demographics and political views, they will have different filter bubbles in two key areas. Professor Abdoney would most likely see ads and posts for children’s products. They both will see posts and ads for left-leaning political groups, social activism groups like BLM, cat products, and local news for the city of Lexington VA. For Professor Abdoney advertisers will use her son as a fear that she may have similar to the black mirror episode “Ark Angel “ that we had to watch for our digital culture class, where the mother is concerned with losing her daughter. According to another article for class this week, Facebook aids ad agencies in understanding their user’s emotions(The Guardian). Professor Teaff’s feed I’d assume would include more local news than Professor Abdoney due to her involvement with the Lexington Historical board.
When doing my research, I came to realize that if someone wants to find something out about you they 100% have the ability to do so. It may not be free or easy to access but there is a path to everything about you. For example, I was able to find previous addresses and phone numbers for both Professor Abdoney and Professor Teaff through TruPeopleSearch.com. Those did not fit well into the timeline so I did not include them. I changed some of my habits in the past that I have been happy with as far as information I put out there that is undoubtedly still out there but I have been good with my current habits. I spent a good 30 minutes googling myself and trying to find as much as I could and there wasn’t anything that I was able to find that I wasn’t ok with being out there. An interesting thing that I found was that you can find anyone’s previous addresses and phone numbers in multiple free easy to access databases. was surprising to me and unsettling.
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