When we started this project I did not think that I would
take much away from it, but it turns out that personalization of the internet
and information is becoming more and more common. Being a person who doesn’t surf
the web that often or even participates in much social media activities, I have
been able to notice a number of changes throughout the semester. The things that
I have noticed the most is that advertisements definitely seem to follow you, I
noticed this most with the screenshots that
we took. Much of the information for the search terms look and for the
most part was the same beside the difference in current events, but the
advertisements for the online transaction I made and other products that I looked up seem to
stick with my avatar. The other change throughout the semester was the types of
political accounts that would appear on my twitter and other news feeds and points
of views on topics. At first my avatar didn’t have a political preference until
I start retweeting things on twitter and facebook (before I was kicked out) but
the views tended to follow into the screen shots, such as after the second time
I searched Russia the new involved discussions with Obama, and I think that
this is occurring due to the increased number of time I searched Barak Obama
and Democratic Party. In the end I think the personalization of the internet
has not moved to far from its original roots; product placement and advertising
to the correct people; not including social media that is personalization on a
whole other level. Social Media's personalization is instantaneous, or in other
words as soon as you like, retweet or pin something you will be able to see
changes right away and sometimes dramatically in your news feed.