Charting Your Digital Identity Through Art

How do you measure your online reputation? Is it through Google’s search results for your name? The number of Facebook friends you have? The number of positive articles written about you?

MIT students have created a more artistic way of envisioning your online presence.  The online tool, called Personas, is a simple text box where an interested user can enter his or her name. Personas will then scan through thousands of search results using “sophisticated natural language processing.” It will output a bar graph that will show you how frequently your name appears with other terms, from “professional” to “sports” to “illegal.

The tool is completely free to use, though it is far more artistic than it is particularly useful. In fact, Personas was created as a part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, a disturbing commentary on digital identities and privacy. To really get a feel for what your digital identity looks like, check out our MyReputation service.

As you can see by my results, the analysis gets confused with others who share your same name (I am neither aggressive nor particularly fashionable). All the more reason to sign up for MyReputation today and get a hard-and-fast grip on your online identity.