Oh Go Google Yourself.

[noxious.sunshine]

No really.

Are you Googleable?

Either by your real name or your screen name?

I just had a nuclear panic attack. Like. I try to maintain a certain level of anonymity on the webz (like my last name and date of birth and location on teh Facebook being not right and not having a pic of myself on my blog), but it never occurred to me that someone could just Google my screen name and find -everything-. Literally. Pics I've edited in Photoshop, pics of -me-, profiles, forum threads, pictures of other people I know in some way or another..... Like. It's all there.

Thank God the email linked to my Facebook isn't associated with what I use now.

Also, my dad is googleable and so is my sister. With their real names.

[Shorty]

I'm fairly safe. There's a Shorty Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia, so anything remotely any which way between "Cobb" mostly points to that. Nothing in the first several pages of Sarah McKenzie Cobb, either.

Most of the demosthynes results on the first few pages are mine. aquabones is a fairly recent alias that doesn't bring up too many results that are mine.

I did find my twitter account that I made a few years ago, though, and it had been hacked by bots! Shut down initiated.

edit: oh, damnit, my itty bitty linkedin photo is near the top of the image search.

[Jiro]

Googling my name brings up results for my facebook, my twitter, my blog, my G+ account, articles I wrote for The Courier-Mail, an article I was in for the Sunshine Coast Daily, and Queensland Athletics results.

Several photos of me come up in Google Images, and several photos of you guys as well. My results show foa, NCG, o_O and Fujiko, TSoL, as well as some meatspace friends.

I guess my privacy is limited?

Except when it comes to my screen name of course. That trout's all asian popstars and old sushi masters.

[Spuuky]

Anyone who is sufficiently skilled can find out basically anything about you on the Internet, and there isn't much you can do about it. I'd advise simply coming to terms with that fact.

My "real" name is exceedingly common (not quite John Smith, but pretty close), so you'd have to know something more about me. My screen name is easy to Google and you can find out plenty, including enough to track me down easily by my real name, if you really were inclined to do so.

[Agent Proto]

My name is far too common, so any google search for my real name will not yield anything on me, just other more important people with my name. You won't find much with my screen name either.

[Pike]

No really.

Are you Googleable?

Either by your real name or your screen name?

Neither.

I once google'd my full name - First, Middle, Last - and combed through 100 full pages of Google before giving up. Not one result was me. You might be able to find me from adding some other details in but name alone isn't gonna do it.

"Pike" won't find me either, although "Pikestaff" will give you a couple of hits, albeit not many.

[noxious.sunshine]

I'll be damned.

There's 3 other people in the U.S. with my name. My -real- name.

[Denmark]

Yes. you can go ahead and read things about me.

[Jinx]

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[Jiro]

Apparently using my middle name during your search yields only a single result which is actually me, and it's like, nothing and suggests I still live in WY so it won't be much use. I haven't seen any EoFF results anywhere though.

[Freya]

Yah, my name/spelling is unique so the entire first page is all about me.

[Psychotic]

Not a chance. My name has 1.6 billion results and actually beats Jesus Christ, Apple and cats.

[Faris]

What I instantly thought when I saw the name of this thread

Just my LinkedIn profile. Nothing else is the real me.

[Shauna]

Nothing for me for a good few pages on my full name. Nothing that I can see for my first name (top hit is still a girl from the Playboy Mansion). It's all good.

[Aulayna]

I have a rather unique full name so the front page is all me... everything from my Facebook, Behance, LinkedIn and MobyGames profiles...