Online Reputation

          This week I had the opportunity to search for a person across all internet platforms to see what kind of online reputation they have. The first thing I did was a basic google search of her name, Emily Briones and instantly found information about her. It took me to the USU Athletics webpage where I learned that Emily is a gymnast for Utah State. 

This page also provided a short bio for Emily which told me that she is from San Antonio, Texas her parents are Robert and Caroline Briones and that she has one brother and one sister. From this page alone I can assume that Emily is an excellent gymnast to be competing at the collegiate level and that she is a hard-worker. In the same vein I was able to find several newspaper articles that spoke of Emily’s gymnastic performances throughout her career. As well as a YouTube channel with videos of gymnastics she did in high school. It does appear that the channel hasn’t been active for 3 years but it was still easy found.

              From a quick search on twitter, I found that Emily’s birthday is on September 12, surprisingly this was not information posted by Emily herself but by the USU Gymnastics twitter account. 

The tweet also contained an image of Emily. I wasn’t able to find a personal twitter account for Emily and found it interesting that even without her own account she still had a presences on Twitter. I wasn’t able to find a LinkedIn account for Emily either.

              Emily does have an active and accessible Facebook page where she posst pictures with her friends and family.

I learned that Emily is very close with her family and loves her hometown of San Antonio from links to articles she posted and pictures she shared. I was able to see that Emily has an Instagram account but it is private. I wasn’t able to find Emily on Pinterest.

              Emily’s online reputation is definitely positive. I didn’t find anything negative while I was searching. Some trends that I recognized throughout all of Emily’s social media platforms was a love and passion for gymnastics, a sense of adventure, and a strong bond with family and friends. One thing that I would suggest to Emily if she were trying to build up her online strength for future employers would be to get a LinkedIn account where she can list past work experiences and qualities that employers are looking for. Right now most all of the information I could find on her had to do with gymnastics, which is great but I think that future employers will be looking for a more well-rounded online presence. I did see that many of her pictures and videos were for the purpose of college recruiting and it looks like that worked out well for her, so I see no reason why social media couldn’t aid in furthering her gymnastics career after college or in getting a job she wanted.