Have you ever "Googled" yourself?

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I googled my name many years ago. Not much came up on me, but, someone by my name was a very popular movie star... um, at least in one very specific genre... which I won't talk about here.

Luckily, I got married. Most people by my current name are like real estate agents and stuff. But, once I started a blog for work, I joined a lot of social networks to point to it and now there's a ton of my work out there. My coworkers joke that I have a bigger internet footprint than most bands.

Haha. I've discovered that it's way easier to deal with conferences and meetings and stuff if people already like me from online, they're more likely to overlook my in-person quirks and they will also approach me, so I don't have to approach them.

I google my devaintART name, occasionally.

If that really means anything...

I googled myself [ok, I "bing"ed meself] and I found a rocket scientist, a computer scientist, some Richie rich businessman CEO type and a few other uber successful high functioning types, and it made me wanna get drunk and crawl under a rock.

I googled myself and found there's a realtor with my name and pages of homes for sale.
I was getting some ideas

I take that back. something on another forum prompted me to google my name again, and i found a website i'd registered on and then completely forgot about. The problem is it had my profile with birth date publicly displayed. No huge deal, but makes me want to be more careful about keeping track of online accounts. Fortunately this one had a very handy delete account option. Looked kind of more like some kind of hookup type site then just discussion forum. I had 83 visitors .

I come up as a successful doctor with published medical journal papers and awards, which I think is great as any one from my past who looks me up will think thats me and not know the failure I am

I suppose I shoulda saw it that way also.

yep.

with my full name, all i really found a mexican actor from Aguascalientes and a bunch of facebook profiles.
with only my first name, i get an argentine short story writer, a character from halo, creator of PHD comics, and another actor from Omaha.

and i get this guy whose last name is "falcon"


he looks just like one.