As I wake, I turn over to silence the alarm on my phone which has waited patiently for me as I slept. My phone is my first, last and constant companion throughout the day and is both my outlet and inlet of data. After unlocking my phone, I que up the Spotify playlist which I had recently created, my first flare of data into the large network. I know that each song in the shuffle is ordered based on when I added it, as well as the songs popularity in the larger Spotify community.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care; I only need a quick beat and catchy tune to help me wake up and get through the morning.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Saturday, so I take the time to check Wolfware to see what homework I can work on, and then head to Youtube to catch up on my subscriptions. My Gmail account is linked to my Youtube account, which sends alerts to my phone whenever one of the Youtubers I follow uploads a new video. Each time I go straight to the recommended video, it just affirms that the recommendations are working and that that particular Youtuber is popular. You skim the other recommended videos that Youtube knew would be exactly what I wanted to see.<\/p>\n
However, I get an alert on my Google Calendar, so conveniently tied to my phone, once again keeping me on track with life, reminding me that I have to meet someone soon. I\u2019m not sure of the address, and so as I settle into my car, I pull up Google Maps on my phone and turn on the GPS. I am now on the grid, being tracked in real time, if not sooner than before.<\/p>\n
Finally, when my day is done, I unwind with my latest past time, an online game call War Frame. As I bullet-jump through space, past enemies and their endless stream of bullets, I receive notifications that my friends are also online. In between missions, I get alerts of multiplayer missions in progress that I could join in and reap the rewards and experience from. \u00a0My War Frame account is tied to my Steam account, allowing Valve, Inc. to easily record my data and every micro-transaction I make.<\/p>\n
From my data, you can probably get a rough estimate of my age, based on the songs I listen to, the Youtubers that I follows and the games that I play. From my transaction history on Steam, you can probably tell what type of games I like, and whether or not I prefer to buy games on sale or as soon as they come out. If you could find the transaction data tied to the card that I have registered with my Steam account, then you would be able to learn so much more. Soo much is tangled and tied together, in such small and such significant ways.\u00a0 I just wonder when the games I play start effecting my employment opportunities. People are already able to share their Playstation and Xbox achievements on Facebook, and so it makes me wonder if this is already a factor that employers consider. Now that I think of it, when Pokemon Go! comes out later this year, I wonder how much more data I’ll be creating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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