I’ve been looking online for two people. People I have not seen nor spoken to in many, many years. Every once in a while I do another internet search to see if any information pops up regarding them, so I can contact them. But it never does. So tonight, as I am searching for these two people again, I decided to do a search on myself, as well. I think I make a concerted effort to protect my identity and I wanted to see if I was as absent from the internet as these two people I was trying to find. Boy, was I surprised…
Not only was I dismayed to get accurate hits on me, I also got hits on ladies who are not me but have the same name as me. And, as I am currently applying for work, I certainly hope that no prospective employer confuses me with the woman who:
- is president of a “Cougars” club,
- is listed on a find-a-grave website,
- is a witch author,
- has posted the details of her sex life on My Space,
- recorded the minutes of a silent auction planning meeting in Canada,
- is one of the many, many social network members who has “public access” to their individual pages and were all born 10 – 25 years before me!
- the Miss USA contender
- the USDA analyst
- the soccer star
The two lists, above, seem to mirror human perspectives – there are more bullets in the “negative” list than in the “positive” one. :o(
