Have you googled your name?

@mimm45 (168)
Australia
October 18, 2011 3:26pm CST
Have you tried to google your name or any variations of it that you use? I have. I was bored and had nothing else to do online so I thought "Why not?". What did I get? Well, if I use my full name, I don't get anything. There's nobody else with a name like mine. If I don't put one of my other names, I get three people with the same name in facebook. If I use my married name, I get a few hits from linked in but not much else. Some are in a place as far away as Ghana. Ha ha ha. I guess I'm not as popular as I thought I was. :) Come on, try it and tell me what you get!
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@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
18 Oct 11
That you can't find your name doesn't mean it is nowhere. It depends on where the name is registered and what kind of policy the site has. Will is hide your name or make others able to see you joined it. Perhaps you are lucky. Googling someone's name or email adress can give you a lot of information about a person and you might not like what you see/read. So be careful where you register on the internet and with what name. You are seldom that invisible as you think.
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@mimm45 (168)
• Australia
18 Oct 11
Yes I suppose I should be happy that nothing came up. Not even my facebook page! Puzzling isn't it? Wonder why. Perhaps I have just been good at protecting my privacy.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Oct 11
hi mimm oh yes out of curiosity and as I was on a lot of genealogyu sites for a number of years I showed up all over the place and was amazed that every place I have ever gone searching for myikin for the family tree I have been named.So yes I am all over the net.lol lol lol
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
18 Oct 11
When I search my current married name it comes up with a few things. One is actually me on classmates.com. The other two are different people. When I search my maiden name it shows my facebook account and classmates and then some of my relatives names.
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@tash01 (2030)
• Jamaica
18 Oct 11
yes i have done it once,an the first thing that came up was my Facebook profile.and then my blog and other sites that i join. weather with my married name and full name it's my Facebook account that comes up.I did it once an even my pictures came up. Then i started to search for my husband he came up,with his Myspace profile.
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• Philippines
19 Oct 11
Yes, i have tried it, out of my curiosity. I have found out that there are many women out there who have the same name as mine. I was quite surprised because i thought i'm the only one who has this kind of name.hehe..I also discovered that my name is also the name of a town and municipality in one of places of Southern Region of Brazil.
• India
19 Oct 11
yes I tried it too. And i got many matches to it as well, well till today i never knew that there was even a serial in my name.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
18 Oct 11
I get myself quite a few times from when I had it published on my websites. There are several others too with the same name. All seem to be American which is strange as my surname is historically British and rather rare. Where are all the Brits? Probably I haven't gone through enough pages - it does get boring after a while!
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
19 Oct 11
Yes, it always have something. When googling other people I found them in social networks, some marathon they ran or even they got accepted in college.
19 Oct 11
hi:) yeah I also did that once, but unlike you,there are so many people with same name as mine, only in my country maybe it's already more than 50, so since then I always include my maiden name, so that people can easily search for me especially on facebook.
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
19 Oct 11
I tried this and when I typed in my name, a lot of people with my name popped up. My first and last name is quite popular. Most of them came from another state though. My friends tried googling their names in goggle images and they have found so many shocking results! They saw images of people they wished they were and people that they never would have thought had their name. It's pretty fun and sometimes my friends do it at school. It's funny when you try to stalk people with the same name as you, to see whether they are actually like you and have the same personality.
18 Oct 11
tried it a couple of times, top result coming from my facebook page. second from my blog. third from my school or college. and unexpectedly, in some news. haha..
@Hazelme (647)
• United States
19 Oct 11
I just tried it and i'm here in mylot. I guess not a lot of people have my name Hazelme.
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
i always check my name if it is listed, most of the time my name appears in linked in and facebook. Yeah it's kinda funnywhen you see your name in the internet.
@siri26 (331)
• India
19 Oct 11
Yes I did it once and I am surprised that I got most of my work online. I just gave my online used name but not full name. Even I tried with my full name and it's working based on the form of data stored. It showed my full name too in one website where i registered with my full name.