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Deep Dive Into My Digital Tattoo

Deep Dive

I completed a deep dive data mine on myself over the last couple of days, and I knew that it would not be difficult to find information as I have an uncommon last name. Fussichen is a German word for little feet--at least that is what my family has recounted to me. My maiden name is Book, which is the Americanized version of the German word buch. According to my family history, two brothers (last name Buch) came to this country as mercenaries in the 1700's to fight for the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War. Anyway, I was excited to view my permanent online presence or digital tattoo, and overall, I was pleased with what I saw. 

Twitter

While mining information about myself, I came across an old Twitter account that I created for my previous role as a middle school gifted teacher. The school district where I worked encouraged teachers to tweet about happenings in our classrooms. I am sure that teachers were asked to tweet to create positive public relations with the community. We were given hashtags (#D34learns, #D34Smiles) to use along with our tweets. I had a total of just 15 tweets during my tenure in D34. While working full-time, commuting 2 hours per day, and raising two young children, I did not have time to use Twitter very much. 

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Google Search 

After reading the article "6 Ways to Get Unfiltered Google Search Results,"  I searched for my name using quotation marks around my name ("Anne Fussichen") with the Startpage search engine in an incognito window. The first four results were ads including Check People, Peoplelooker, Been Verified, and National Cellular Directory. Next, my LinkedIn profile popped up along with the Library Media Center page at Longfellow Elementary School where I work. Then the live Twitter chat comments I made for this class showed up in the search, and the websites for the Julian Middle School PTO and the Oak Park Township Youth and Family Services--two committees on which I serve.  

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Facebook

Subsequently, I searched "Anne M Fussichen" with "M" standing for my middle name Marie. One result appeared for the Illinois Public Salaries Database website listing my teaching salary for a previous job, however, the salary for my current role was not included. Additionally, I searched "Anne Book Fussichen" since "Book" is my maiden name, and I use that name specifically for my Facebook account. Interestingly, my husband's company's Facebook account and Aktiv Learning's (my former employer) Facebook account, but happily, my personal Facebook account did not appear in the results. 

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Websites

From the list of web site provided, I used Nuwber, Radaris, Truthfinder, Intelius, and ZabaSearch to mine for information, however, they did not provide much information is their free versions. The only information they provided were the names of my mom, dad, sister, and husband; the towns I've lived in and currently reside; and my age. 

PeekYou

I found the most information about myself and my family when I searched on the PeekYou website. Links on the PeekYou page linked directly to my Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram accounts, and the same links were available for my husband, mother-in-law, and my husband's brothers as we all share the same (uncommon) last name. 

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YouTube 

Lastly, I searched YouTube and Google Images. I found my YouTube channel where I posted three videos I created for my Dominican classes and a Google slide deck the school where I used to teach. My LinkedIn and Twitter profile pictures appeared in the Google Images search as well as some photos of family members. 

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Reflection
Overall, I was not too concerned about the information I found during my data mine, and I really did not expect to find anything that was surprising. I think that if someone really wants to find out information about someone, they will find it. Additionally, we live in such a public world now that I expect certain amounts of personal information to be published just like our addresses and phone numbers were published in the phone book white pages unless we took the extra effort to have the information unlisted. 


References

Project, I. A. (n.d.). Illinois Public Salaries Database. https://salary.illinoisanswers.org/.


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  1. NMZumpanoJune 22, 2023 at 11:33 AM

    It's always so fascinating to me when old content comes up. It's a reminder about how there may still be information that is no longer valid but we don't have the means to remove it.

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  2. Courtney AnneJune 23, 2023 at 5:15 AM

    Hi Anne,
    Your layout of your post is very appealing. Your family history at the beginning is very intriguing and makes me want to do more research on my family origins. It is shocking to know your school had you make a Twitter account and post.

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