I like to know what is being said behind my back. You want to know what is being said behind your back… The question is who is saying all this stuff behind our backs that we don’t know about? The answer is the internet…
“You’re joking, right?”
“Maybe I am, maybe I’m not.”
“Well how do I find out what they are saying about me?”
“Vanity search…. Search yourself on the internet. Try Google and other search engines. Then you will find out what they are saying about you.”
“But what gives them the right?”
“Well they are search engines, they only find the information that is up on the internet about you, they don’t post stuff on the internet you or someone else does that.”
When I went searching for myself on Google I came up with only seven results. Not one of the results was the real me. On Yahoo there was only one listing of the real me and it was from my high school days when I was into public speaking. When I went to a website called Intelius, I only found one person with the same name who is located on the other side of the state. When I searched for myself on USA- People-Search I found the same thing as on Intelius. Even though I did not find many listings of myself what I
discovered by doing this assignment is that there are many people out there with my last name that I never knew existed, in other parts of the world- especially in
After researching myself I decided to research some close family members and didn’t find too much info about them either; so I’m glad that they are cautious internet users. Basically, I don’t have much to worry about but I believe that I will be more cautious of what I do on the internet that might give people info about me. I might go scare my friends into doing this search and see what they come up with. …
1 comment:
I was also glad that there weren't many results for my name on the internet, and that none of them had my name, address, or phone number on them.
What makes me mad is that if i buy a house or do anything else that becomes public record, I have no choice as to whether or not my information is online. Since we are younger internet users, our internet presences are smaller.
I found my sister and brother-in-law's signatures for their home loan online! Scary!
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