Online Reputation: Jesse Wilson

A song by Slim Shady has been playing in my mind as I have been writing this:  "Will the real Jesse Wilson please stand up—please stand up—please stand up?"  Wait, which Jesse Wilson?  The pastor, the actor, the singer, the football player, the highly ranked service man, the junior hockey super sports nominee, the python collector, the body-building pro, the famous sand-boarding star, or the student majoring in Communication Studies at USU?   My online reputation search for Jesse Wilson showed at least 82 on public records websites.  18 of those were in the state of Utah.  The Jesse Wilson I searched for is in his twenties.  That narrowed things down quite a bit, but still wasn’t specific enough information.   I tried associating him with Utah State University, and there I found success with his account on Facebook.  https://www.facebook.com/jesserosswilson?fref=ts

Let me share some things I learned about Jesse Wilson:   He is from St. George, Utah.  His birthday is April 12 and he has one sister, Brooke Wilson.    He completed an associate’s degree from Dixie State University in Business Administration and now at USU, he is earning his bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies.   He served an LDS mission to Germany, which means he not only speaks English, but he speaks German too! 

From many pictures on Facebook, I observed that Jesse has a pattern of being an avid outdoors enthusiast, enjoying the beautiful mountains of southern Utah.  He is not afraid of heights and enjoys hiking, camping and being in nature.  He also participates in snow sports and snowmobiles during the winter months.  

Jesse has a strong attachment to skateboards, (and if you haven’t noticed, one accompanies him to class each day.) 

Another pattern or trend I found was that Jesse is very social.  He likes to be around friends, and seems to have MANY in different places around the world, including different parts of Utah, Chicago and Germany..........

I discovered information on Jesse’s LinkedIn account as well.  He seems to have a third trend or pattern in his occupation, as he is experienced in “Sales”. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-wilson-8a6025b7

He has been a sales associate at Fisher Home Furnishings, a salesman of pest prevention and control services, and is currently a sales rep for Fox Pest Control.   During this search, I found that I know a couple of people that work at the same pest control company that Jesse does.   Kory Crompton and Zach Hendrickson are two young men I used to coach in high school and club soccer.  The other young man is Sam Rolfe, who was a student worker in my department at USU.  So, we may actually know some of the same people?

Jesse was hard to find information on outside of these two accounts.  He keeps a fairly low profile and stays out of trouble with the law and the courts system.  He doesn’t have anyone searching for him or a bounty on his head that I could find.  By accessing his twitter account, I noticed that he doesn’t use it much, as he started it in 2012 with a tweet that reads, “I’m not so sure how I feel about twitter yet….Day one”.   There were a total of 4 more tweets after that over the span of 16 months, ending in Dec. 2013.  https://twitter.com/search?q=jesseblend&src=typd   The most recent tweets have started in January of this year, 2016, and they pertain to this class.  I’m guessing I can tell how Jesse feels about Twitter…….

This was a fun and interesting assignment.   Although I wished I could have learned even more about the Jesse Wilson I searched for from class, I found there are many other Jesse Wilsons out there I could cyber stalk as well if I need something to occupy my time.