Personas: Everything the Internet Knows about You, in Art Form

[Kaido]

This is pretty awesome, kinda like 123 People but with eye candy:

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

I'm amazed at how much stuff it found out about me! There's only 1 person (me) in the US with my full name so it wasn't too hard, I wonder how it would do if you had a really common name...

 

[SunnyD]

I don't exist.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
I don't exist.

:shocked:

Well, at least you'll be safe from SkyNET :thumbsup:

 

[AreaCode707]

It found and accurately characterized my husband's professional life. It couldn't make a sensible sentence out of my married name and it couldn't find my pre-married name at all. Yay for internet anonymity!

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Another me -> IS BATTERED AND BRUISED 18 STITCHES IN HIS FACE AFTER NEXTDOOR NAIGHBOUR BROKE IN TO ROB HIM

Personas can't spell :laugh:

 

[KeithTalent]

I don't really understand what I am looking at, it just shows my name, along with four categories of various sizes and colours, but nothing else.

KT

Edit: ran it again and it gave me a completely different set of categories and colours. Strange.

 

[Train]

Holy crap, it pulled up newspaper articles with my Name in it from over 10 years ago.

Too bad a few of the things it pulled up were from someone else.

Common name means your screwed.

 

[Modelworks]

Sports , professional , military , art were my big areas. My name is very uncommon , fairly accurate though.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

My name is very common, didn't know jack shit about me.

 

[spidey07]

holy crap that got a lot.

 

[SunnyD]

Wow, it gets interesting if you use something that can be found online like a username or something.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I don't really understand what I am looking at, it just shows my name, along with four categories of various sizes and colours, but nothing else.

KT

Edit: ran it again and it gave me a completely different set of categories and colours. Strange.

Same here. I don't know what it's doing, a simple google search for my (uncommon) name yields 6 distinct results on the first page, but only 1 of them shows up on this thing.

The fact that it changes the "results" (whatever they're supposed to be, just some colored bars with a description underneath), each time I put in my name, doesn't give me much confidence in this algorithm to do...something? What's it supposed to be doing?

 

[clamum]

I have a fairly common name so I had to add my middle initial. Also did my Internet username. I can't figure how to do anything with what it found when it finishes though.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

It got one thing right for my brother. Didn't get anything on me my family, or my gf.

 

[zerocool84]

Someone with my same name received the Medal of Honor and the Croix de Guerre in WWI.

 

[weiv0004]

Saw this site the other day . . . used my own name and the results were pretty crappy. To be fair, there isn't that much about me on the net. Next I tried it with some celebrities/politicians . . . the results were still pretty crappy, they just took longer to generate.

 

[Leros]

It says I'm into sports and religion, which is not right.

 

[Robsasman]

It says I just got busted for drugs:laugh: my biggest color is green=illegal

 

[Glitchny]

is this supposed to display something other than just the different colors?

 

[flexy]

Lol...love it...except that it think i am born in 1733

Hint: Enter your WoW toon's names too

 

[lupi]

my largest is sports, with fame-social-books-education-management all about the same size and half the size of sports, the rest are pretty small. And I have no idea what the hell I'm looking at.

 

[lxskllr]

My full name with middle initial doesn't give anything. Without initial, I don't think it's me. lxskllr gives sports and education. I hate sports, so I'm not sure where that comes from.

 

[TallBill]

ROBERT SCOTT IS A VETERAN OF THE NEW ZEALAND MUSIC INDUSTRY, WEAVING LOOSE, JANGLY SONGS FULL OF CELTIC INFLUENCES

ROBERT SCOTT IS ONE OF THE CONFIRMED VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THAT WAS ACTUALLY BORN IN AUSTRALIA

MILITARY OFFICER WORKING IN A HIGHLY SECRETIVE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCE

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ROBERT SCOTT IS ALREADY RESEARCHING WAYS TO INCREASE WIND ENERGY WHILE STUDYING AT GEORGIA TECH

 

[TallBill]

TALLBILL IS A PART OF THE ARMED FORCES THAT PROTECTS YOUR SORRY ARSE

TALLBILL WAS RUBBING IT IN MY FACE EARLIER, LOL

I THINK ALSO TALLBILL WILL BE JOINING US ALSO BUT I THINK HE WILL CHIME IN HERE SOON

TALLBILL IS RANKED 3,578 OUT OF 25,887 USERS WITH 31,549 TOTAL CREDIT ON PROJECT PRIMEGRID

 

[Krynj]

Way off. Completely inaccurate.

Hahaha. If I put in 'FetusCakeMix' it says:

"I THINK THE ONLY THINK TO CLARIFY IS THAT FETUSCAKEMIX IS ONE STUPID FUCK "