I began my search on projects.nyctimes.com and fact-finder.com and looked up my hometown. I found that Eden Prairie, Minnesota is by no means racially diverse. With a population of 62,603, 92% of the population is white, 2% hispanic, 2% black, 4% asians, and 1% fall under the category of other groups. I was pretty surprised by how predominately white my hometown ended up being, and I at least thought it would be a little bit more diverse based on what I've personally witnessed. The median household income was $97,014 and the median home value was $354,700. I would consider these medians to be fairly accurate, but I also know that Eden Prairie has a very wide range of incomes. There are definitely distinct lower income areas as well as extremely affluent neighborhoods.
When I went on to google myself, the only thing that showed up was my Facebook account. However, even then I wasn't the first result to come up. When I finally found myself the only thing you could see was my current profile picture and a few facts like where I work and attend school. Aside from my Facebook account nothing else came up when I googled myself, which was both surprising and comforting. I was relieved that I was fairly difficult to find, as I try and keep most of my Facebook and other social networking sites as private as possible. I have never had a twitter or a myspace so I didn't have to worry about those sites, but I was surprised that other things such as my instagram account or pinterest page didn't show up at all. Also, when I searched my phone number and past and current emails, nothing came up that was linked to me. I expected that at least my wiscmail account would show up, but again there was nothing. Overall I enjoyed this activity of researching myself, even though I realized I'm pretty irrelevant from an internet standpoint. However, I was happy to discover that no personal or revealing information about myself was out there for the world to see.
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