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I just got this paranoid feeling

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 5:58am
by damian
...after reading .

Anyone who googles my name can find out that I have 3000+ posts on a site about PDAs, a few posts in a graphing calculator forum (shut up, I was 12)... and not much else. Granted, it's not criminal or anything, but it can't really be good either. What makes it worse is that my sister, my parents and I are the only people in the US with my last name, which kinda makes my identity absolutely unmistakeable.

Granted, it's not likely that I'll be applying for real jobs for another 8 or so years, but it's kinda disconcerning to know that our online lives aren't as private as we think.

Your thoughts on this?

edit: Actually, I'm probably just retarded for throwing my name around when I didn't need to, but what about sites like facebook? That's unavoidable, although thankfully it doesn't show up in google. Not like I have anything incriminating there either.

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 6:32am
by refractor
<-- look, a pseudonym. ;) A search for my real name on google gets ~400 hits, none of which are me. I prefer to use pseudonym(s) online, generally with a different one per site. I sometimes google job candidate's names to see what kind of stuff they get up to, but that hasn't (and probably wouldn't) swayed my opinion either way. I should be hiring a guy in a few hours and haven't looked for him at all.

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 1:09pm
by chuck
My name's still not Chuck.

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 4:12pm
by sponge

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 5:49pm
by Maf54

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 8:33pm
by damian
It's not a bad idea, but the way most people use it it's kinda lame. When I joined and had absolutely no info in my profile and before even going to college, a few kids whom I haven't ever met added me. Why the hell?

PostPosted: Oct 4, 2005 @ 9:33pm
by Maf54
Yeah that is rather stupid. I hate the fucktards on the book. I also can't stand the random wall chains there are going around.

PostPosted: Oct 5, 2005 @ 5:43am
by Chad

PostPosted: Oct 5, 2005 @ 7:37pm
by Bjorn Keizers

PostPosted: Oct 5, 2005 @ 7:58pm
by chuck

PostPosted: Oct 5, 2005 @ 10:24pm
by sponge

PostPosted: Oct 5, 2005 @ 11:46pm
by Maf54

PostPosted: Oct 6, 2005 @ 2:22am
by Cameron

PostPosted: Oct 6, 2005 @ 2:47pm
by chuck

PostPosted: Oct 6, 2005 @ 7:47pm
by Maf54