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From The YWN Homepage:
Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we’re searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn’t even know we were looking for.
But they can also teach us a lot about ourselves, as more than half of adult internet users already know.
About 57 percent of adult internet users in the United States said they have entered their name into a search engine to assess their digital reputation, according to a new Pew Research Center study “Reputation Management and Social Media.”
That’s a significant increase since 2006, when only 47 percent of adult internet users said they had looked their name up on a search engine. The findings show “reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life,” the study says.
This probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many, considering a new story about Facebook’s privacy settings surfacing each day.
And the concern about people’s digital reputations will most likely continue to grow as posting and sharing information over the internet becomes more and more widespread.
The study also found that young adults are more apt to “restrict what they share” and manage their online reputations more closely than older internet users. This is “contrary to the popular perception that younger users embrace a laissez-faire attitude about their online reputations,” wrote Mary Madden, a senior research specialist.
The Pew Research Center study, which took place by phone between August 18 and September 14, sampled 2,253 adults 18 and older. The margin of error is 2.3 percentage points.
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(Source: CNN)
Don’t see much of a discussion here-guess I’ll have to give my 2 cents.
I definitely have tried to google my name before, however I didnt find much- only boring info about some stranger out there that stole my name 😉
I’ve gotten shidduch calls about friends- and I almost fell off my chair the first time someone told me they googled the potential shidduch and had questions on what they found!Maybe they had the wrong person.
On google, I found some nasty info about a relative with a not so common last name and found someone else carrying his name is well with rather strange info. I was glad when a picture came up and saw it was someone else.
I never did
Yes, and it was not until page seven that it found a site having anything to do with me. That is what happens when you have a common name.
Yes I did. Didn’t find much (luckily!)
I don’t show up on google.
Be aware that the first thing usually to show up on searches is your onlysimchas posts.
I’ve googled myself and many other random ppl i know and whatever came up was rather stupid unless they were someone major (rabbi, singer, famous businessman, etc.)
I’ve googled myself. I was surprised to find so much stuff, but I shouldn’t have been. I have had some stuff (mostly letters to the editor) published, and I have been active in politics. What was interesting, however, was unless I added the elected office I held as part of the search, it didn’t come up.
i have googled myself but all that showed up was my facebook profile on the 19th page
cb1, you probably just searched yourself so that you can post here! Just kidding!!
By the way people, if you search your name and surround it by “quotes”, you will probably find your name on the first page.
I have, and since my last name is very uncommon, it’s quite interesting what comes up. In addition, if you ever try whitepages.com and put in your last name and zip code (if it’s not that uncommon a name) they will give you the approximate age of all the people they find. I found my parents, myself and my sister, and the age approximations were all correct.
Just did. A whole bunch of garbage.
I know someone that googled herself and a whole disgusting dirty story came up with her name involved! She was devastated!
da thanx for that quotes idea
nurse, if the ages were correct should I assume the criminal record was too? (ok, you get one free tomato for that)
d a ur right i just googled myself again with quotes and it showed up on the first page
kapusta,
Don’t know, why don’t u ask your, ahem, contact? (The one from Rikers, I mean. Not from when you spent time in alcohol detox).
nurse, you mean the one you met in the Rockland Psychiatric Center that you introduced me to?
Kapusta
We better stop it, they might kick us off here, lol
NYC Department of Corrections
Name: Samantha Cohn
Function: Nurse
DOB: 1980-09-11
NYSID: 08467118M
Book&Case #: 2410710654
Facility: North Infirmary Command
Discharge Date: 2010-05-19
Next Court Date: 2010-06-04
Bail and Bond: remanded
cb1, your doubting me? Of course I’m always right!
d a thats a matter of opinion but we won’t discuss that here
cb1, next time try: “Its a matter of opinion, and your opinion doesn’t matter”!
Mod! (gasp)
How did you get my info??
NYC Department of Corrections
Name: Samantha Cohn
Function: Nurse
DOB: 1980-09-11
NYSID: 08467118M
Book&Case #: 2410710654
Facility: North Infirmary Command
Discharge Date: 2010-05-19
Next Court Date: 2010-06-04
Bail and Bond: remanded
Mods shouldn’t be posting personal info of other people, no?
A friend asked: “How did you get such a good deal on your house?”
I googled us and realized how she knew how much we paid. Yuck!
Any tips on how to get this info off google?
By the way, cb1, my comment above was just a joke.
Yes, and I found out I share my name with a name older not-frum lady lawyer. Nice woman.
I googled myself previously and I came up in some newspapers -due to some lawsuits. Why is this even a topic?
When I Google myself I mostly find my amateur radio records as well as products I reviewed using my real name (a practice I’ve since terminated). B”H nothing unknown!
That’s how I found out I was on my college honor roll.
Believe it or not, most of my internet activity is doing using my real name, so a Google search of that turns up just about everything I ever did online. 🙂
And, of course, you can Google my screenname and find a few things I’ve written. 🙂
The Wolf
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I googled your real name, with quotes, (Zev Lupus if anyone is interested),
All I got was some links to a superhero
Mods, having fun?
Yes thank you
Besides Googling your name, try the “howmanyofme” website to see how many other people share your name.
There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named EDITED – d a.
The estimates for one or both names are not absolute. There may be fewer people with this name, or none at all.
This happens not to be true, because there are at least two other people with my name living in the U.S. …
Wow I’m on Wikipedia- who here put me on???
I did- I emailed an elderly woman with a PhD in something or other, who shared my name (Jewish, of course, not frum). She got sick soon after… I hope she’s not dead.
im not sure where this conversation is going. Whats the piont of discussing what you found on google???
I’ve looked up my english name and hebrew name. It’s interesting to see what comes up.
grada, read the FIRST post.
My name is so common, there is almost nothing in google on me. And whatever little there is, is buried under 100’s of other items that come first.
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