Who knows me better, Google or Facebook….well to think that a website knows me personally is a bit of a creepy thought. Maybe its too much ‘iRobot’ thoughts in my head but technology is becoming a tad overwhelming. If i had to chose which site knows me better I think I would have to say Facebook. Though I’m not happy with the fact that FB assumes me to have one identity for all my friends it has a majority-correct assumption on majority of things.

This is probably because when I access Facebook its only me and they see what it is I alone do in my searches, friend requests, events, likes etc. Unlike Google which even though my email is logged in my sister, my mother, my friends constantly ask me to do searches for them and this probably throws in confounding variables of my identity to Google.

This still upsets me because both the social media site and the search engine think of me as a person who has specific interests and don’t allow me to see what else there might be, i am not an ‘island’ and if i was to look at what they see i would hope they “zoom out” and see a bigger picture when it comes to looking at personalization. Pariser is right that the internet skews your identity and doesn’t really see the big picture of your individuality rather than just your identity to a group.