Google Your Name?

neverstray
neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
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Do you ever Google your name and see what pops up?

I do. At least 2 or 3 times a year. It's interesting. All kinds of stuff on me out there. LOL. Crazy.

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  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Indeed.

    I bet most people don't, they would probably freak out.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Once in a while, but it is mostly boring technical mailing list stuff. Though the mugshots of the guys who aren't me are kind of cool.
  • StrengthIDidntKnow
    StrengthIDidntKnow Posts: 543 Member
    I have.

    I found someone with the same name that lived in the next town that owned her own pet grooming business.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    just did - 3,040 results.

    that's a whole lotta me (no one has the same name as i have)
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Also, scarier is spokeo.com

    Go there, type in your name. LOL. WTF?
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    Google has nothing interesting about me. There is like one other person with my name on there, but I don't even know what she's supposed to be, haha.
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    I try, but the damn FBI keeps seizing the domain names.....
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    Also, scarier is spokeo.com

    Go there, type in your name. LOL. WTF?

    Ooo I hate spokeo. I had myself removed from their site about 3 years ago. Creepy ****.
  • mandi2r
    mandi2r Posts: 228 Member
    My name has About 8,260,000 results but first thing that pops up is a bio of someone that is "a mediator, an educator, and an active community organizer in the fields of conflict resolution, violence prevention, and multicultural community..." Interesting.
  • Discoveri
    Discoveri Posts: 435 Member
    My first name and my maiden name pop up with info about a folk singer in San Fran. She also did some work on Nickelodeon so she has a ton of pages about her and her work. My current name just pops up with a couple of women but nothing too crazy.

    Before I decided to change my name, I did google it to make sure I wouldn't be sharing the name with anyone that would hurt me if an interviewer were to google me. Luckily no mug shots exist for my name combo.
  • Notorious_T
    Notorious_T Posts: 384
    Ewww...all I found was bad stuff mehh...:grumble:
  • HealthyBodySickMind
    HealthyBodySickMind Posts: 1,207 Member
    I try not to do it at work... It turns out there are a lot of amature adult actresses named "Vanessa".
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Yup. However if people were to Google my full name and not the short version I use you won't find much.
  • caraiselite
    caraiselite Posts: 2,631 Member
    i have. pretty much everyone i know has googled themselves.

    i'm the only person in the world with my name.
  • Barkley87
    Barkley87 Posts: 126 Member
    Sometimes, but it just comes up with websites about aquamarine lifeforms.
  • DaughterOfTheMostHighKing
    DaughterOfTheMostHighKing Posts: 1,436 Member
    great... so much for not being found! :P
  • kris10stew
    kris10stew Posts: 38 Member
    I have the same name as the highest paid actress of the last year.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/06/19/kristen-stewart-tops-our-list-of-highest-paid-actresses/
  • crazy8ts
    crazy8ts Posts: 360
    I have a very common name... hundreds in NYC alone... but what does pull up is stuff about a former pro football (American FB, for our friends across the pond and elsewhere) player... And that's best for me, since my work is of a sensitive nature...
  • stepherzzzzz
    stepherzzzzz Posts: 469 Member
    The only thing that comes up for me that's actually about me is my old WAYN profile. I haven't gone on there since high school. I didn't think it even still existed lol.
  • Octopies
    Octopies Posts: 157 Member
    Sometimes, yeah. Some lawyer's stuff pops up. I have a pretty generic name.

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