I don’t believe that  either Facebook or Google does a better job at understanding who I am. One reason I believe this is derived from the purpose of the two sites. I use Facebook solely to illustrate my  personal and social side. While I use google for social, academic, personal, and business purposes. On my facebook page you can see pictures of where I spent my vacation, one can see who I am friends with or what music I like to listen to. One can also figure out my politcal affiliations and my religious views, but they would still be skimming the surface. Facebook cannot understand the real me because it only knows what information I choose to give it. I can still be hiding what I don’t want people to know.

Although Google has access to a much greater amount of information than facebook, it still is often misconstrued.  Although Google can track the websites that I visit via the search engines it doesn’t get a much more in depth understanding of who I am because I may search something that I am not necessarily interested. For example, research for a science project. Someone else can also use my computer and search things that I am not interested in.

I think both Facebook and Google do an incomplete job. “Both are pretty poor representations of who we are, in part because there is no one set of data that describess who we are. Information about our property, our professions, our purchases, our financesk and our medical history does not tell the whole story.” (115)