How does the Internet see you?

http://personas.media.mit.edu/

Be careful, Skynet is watching you.

Nothing interesting here folks.

It sees us as it wants to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. It sees us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct?

You're probably right about that.

I find that tool interesting and disturbing at the same time.
Having a fairly unique name, the way it sees me at least is almost accurate.

Regardless of the implications, it is kinda fun to play with.

dibs on being the scruffy outcast who gets the hot girl's earring.

edit: apparently, the Internet sees me as books. i think this pleases me.

Apparently, my name is not as unique as I thought.

you didn't slip that one past me......

The internet sees me as illegal.

My name is far from unique too but my wife whose name is unique is not found, (She does show up when Googled)

I'm an Argentinian football player who plays in the professional leagues. Apparently.

My name is very unique. I saw it spit out all these different things, but in the end I don't get it. I have the grid with the colors and sections, but huh?

Yeah, there's one guy with my name bogarting all the google results. Last time I bothered to google myself, I think two out of all the results was me, and one was my facebook profile.

A university in Scotland mostly.

Man, there are lots of women with my name doing far more interesting things than I am doing.

Apparently I illegally ordained someone, and God does not approve.

among a few other things I'm a vice president of a fortune 500 company. (who can barely pay the trash bill right now?) It did find the actual me also, I'm certain I'm the only one in this town of 14K with my name, but even then it has me living someone else's life:

ERIK XXXXXX, BOULDER CITY, NV. I MOVED TO PHILLIE JUST TO SKATE LOVE I JUST KNEW THAT WAS THE BEST CITY TO SKATE

Phillie seems nice and all, but since my skills never got past ollying a curb pretty much any town would have worked for me.

Well, it got the right me - I have a fairly unique name and I've been mentioned in various news articles a handful of times. But it didn't unearth or indicate anything more than a simple google search would have. Not all that impressed.

doesn't matter, God hates us all for one reason or another.

It's more fun if you input your SG username.

I think it's important to point out that this program is really crappy and doesn't do anything interesting that google doesn't already do.

first actual reference to me:
SOPHOMORE atomicant WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN "ATTACKED" BY THE SAME INFAMOUS SQUIRREL

second, and last, out of 30:
IN ADDITION, SENIOR COMMUNICATION MAJOR atomicant WAS GRANTED USE OF THE SAAB XL1 DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA FOR HIS SENIOR PROJECT

for as much time as i spend on the internet, it knows suspiciously little about me.

Yes, this is a good observation.

Guess I was expecting something other than a meaningless, inaccurate graph... I don't think the program is very good at categorizing things.

When I put in my SG name, I find things people posted about me:

This was most likely RX3.

Probably TheFuckOffKid.

Then there's one that seemed kind of official-ish. Herm.

So discussion about this tool is creating unexpected results.

Apparently it doesn't see me at all, no digital traces found