Have you ever Googled yourself?
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The good news is that I have a charitable foundation that I didn't know about. The bad news is that I died and the foundation was set up in my name.
If you want to keep your real name a secret, you should re-write that info in your own words and leave out significant details. As it is, anyone could just Google the info you listed to see your real name.
I'm quite the opposite. I have a fairly uncommon first name and a pretty rare last name, so the combination is unique. Just like me.
I'm not concerned about it. Just seeing how many people care enough to search for the name
And it's funny, a lot of people who know me would probably say I'm not terribly far away from partaking in a little decapitation. Must be the Viking roots.
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Well, you ARE Gary Mitchell. So we kinda knew that.
Same here, which only makes the name stand out so much more. Well, my first name is fairly common, but last name, not so much, and the combination makes searches pretty definite.
Yep. Not much out there.
My brother-in-law shares a name with a famous celebrity, so anyone who tries to Googly my brother-in-law gets several million hits on the famous one first. He likes that. Gives him annonymity.
Not much on me. My name's relatively uncommon.
With my name
- A Project Manager in the Construction field here in Melbourne
- Science Fiction Writer
- Jazz Musician
- An Optometrist
- A yacht surveyor
- A Project Manager in the Construction field here in Melbourne
- Science Fiction Writer
- Jazz Musician
- An Optometrist
- A yacht surveyor
if someone Googles say... Google then what or
if someone Googles google googling google? weird right? recursion is a strange thing..
back about 20 years ago there was no one who had my name but if I dropped off my middle name then yep like 50 of us out there... now IDK but i hear there was this baby born around 2001 or 2000 with my exact name... what ever... really ---
if someone Googles google googling google? weird right? recursion is a strange thing..
back about 20 years ago there was no one who had my name but if I dropped off my middle name then yep like 50 of us out there... now IDK but i hear there was this baby born around 2001 or 2000 with my exact name... what ever... really ---
When I googled myself, what I got back was information about a lot of strangers with interesting careers I never had, living in places I've never been... and that's just within my own country.
Someone contacted me on social media some years ago, insisting we'd met at some kind of writing symposium. When I found out where, I told her it wasn't me, since I've never been there. She promptly got nasty and accused me of lying and started carrying on about what an awful person I was, to lie to her like that.
Apparently my namesake must have impressed her at the time they met, which is why she was so upset that I said I hadn't met her, but even though I'm into writing, it's not the same kind as my namesake and I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not.
Someone contacted me on social media some years ago, insisting we'd met at some kind of writing symposium. When I found out where, I told her it wasn't me, since I've never been there. She promptly got nasty and accused me of lying and started carrying on about what an awful person I was, to lie to her like that.
Apparently my namesake must have impressed her at the time they met, which is why she was so upset that I said I hadn't met her, but even though I'm into writing, it's not the same kind as my namesake and I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not.
I've told this story here before, but there was a white supremacist gang member who committed murder in my hometown that also has exactly the same first, middle, and last name as I do (all spelled the same too). The odds of that are so astronomical that I might want to play the lottery, but then of course with my luck, I end up having the same name as one of the Hitler Youth.
His first trial ended in a mistrial because jury members looked up information about him on the internet in violation of the judge's orders, so by the time the second trial rolled around it was pretty big news around the county. My Mom and other relatives used to get frequent phone calls from reporters asking how they felt about their son's/nephew's/grandson's trial.
So, fortunately his second trial ended in conviction and he's now living in a nice maximum security gated community upstate with more of his white supremacist friends instead of here in the same city, but if I Google my name and city, most of the results end up with articles about him.
His first trial ended in a mistrial because jury members looked up information about him on the internet in violation of the judge's orders, so by the time the second trial rolled around it was pretty big news around the county. My Mom and other relatives used to get frequent phone calls from reporters asking how they felt about their son's/nephew's/grandson's trial.
So, fortunately his second trial ended in conviction and he's now living in a nice maximum security gated community upstate with more of his white supremacist friends instead of here in the same city, but if I Google my name and city, most of the results end up with articles about him.
That sounds like an easy career. All you have to do is go down to the marina and yell out "Hey! There's yachts here!"
Or go around with a clipboard, interviewing the yachts: "On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your owners and how they take care of you? Do they make sure you get regular maintenance?"That sounds like an easy career. All you have to do is go down to the marina and yell out "Hey! There's yachts here!"
Sounds like those fake jobs that pop up on the Onion from time to time, when they're interviewing people who always have jobs like "Egg Breaker" or "Shrimp De-Veiner". 
