Have you Googled your Real Name recently?

[Synnical]

Adjunct to Have you Googled your screen name lately? post by Juniperx

Because when I do so, I've found some really interesting things. Like links to blogs about articles that I've written. I've been attacked, and also defended. Funny.

Also, it's a good thing to do every now and again because of the very real potential for Identity Theft.

Just sayin'.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Yes, and it links to my publications

and a doppelganger who is apparently quite an athlete, unlike me.

[Warpy]

2. Mine is relatively unusual

so the only links are to those identity sites. My address is a few numbers off and the age they gave me is very flattering.

I think the FBI must be doing the legwork. I remember my file from the 60s being about as accurate.

[Orangepeel]

3. My name is too common

The one that is me doesn't show up until page 6. Apparently, people with my name are quite accomplished. :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. Seems like my name is common as well...in Ireland.

Not that that is bad. Could not find anything about myself, which also is not bad.

Though I did find a link to someone with my name in a different Chicago suburb.

[alittlelark]

4. I have, I died in a tragic boating accident aboard a private yacht.

Many, many people miss me and have memorialized me.

[Ian David]

5. That's how I once found out I'd been phished.

I found my name in a database of names that a spammer accidentally left publicly accessible through the Google cache.


That same spammer had similarly exposed thousands of names of people who had signed-up for various multi-level marketing scams.

And yes, I reported it to authorities.

[Obamarama]

6. No, but I just googled my DU name and guess what? I'M FAMOUS over at FR!

Unbeknownst to moi, I came in THIRD place for their "Top 10 Worst DU Quotes" for 2005. I feel so honored!

[alittlelark]

38. GOOD JOB!!!!

:yourock: :toast: :yourock:

[DemGirl7]

48. Alot of DUers are famous over at sites like FR

It's a great honor, because it proves that you are pissing off the morons.

[Guava Jelly]

7. My real names leads t o a man who was M.I.A. in vietnam.

and to my familytree webpage.
Amongst otherthings.

[ZombieNixon]

8. Yes. I get me.

This is how I found out I made the Dean's list this year, because they didn't bother to tell me otherwise. :eyes:

[Maestro]

9. Yeah, I'm apparently a conservative pundit

in Great Britain. After about 4 pages the real me appears. ;)

[Momgonepostal]

37. I'm an artist, chef and lounge singer. Dang, that's exhausting! nt

[greendog]

45. I'm a conservative pundit too, in Canada...

...also a NHL hocky player. Who'da thunk?

[wakeme2008]

10. I am a goalie :)

:rofl:

[miss_american_pie]

11. My real name is very common

I checked ten pages in and none of them are me. :)

[LeftyMom]

12. No documents found.

OTOH, my sister is apparently a married canadian college athlete. :rofl:

[khashka]

13. Real name, no dice... Screen names, infinite fun!

Let's see... I'm a facist, a Nazi, an hysterical joker, a misogynist, an right royal bitch of a feminist, gay rad, prostitute activist, libertarian, communist.....



Actuually it started ot funny, now it's just tired.

Khash.

[mark11727]

14. According to Google, I'm a British humorist and writer...

...and I almost was, too.

[u4ic]

15. There are only 2

one is me, stating I won a contest (it was only some lipstick from a magazine, nothing much); the second is a death notice on an ancestry site...

[seemunkee]

16. Same name as one of the original Muppeteers

Wish I had his job.

[Radio_Lady]

30. Same name as one of the wives of the original Mormons!

Boy, my Jewish parents would be totally shocked!

Although, there is some irony in this. Their grandson (my son) was baptized Mormon and married a Mormon woman.

No, guys -- he just has one wife.

[Floogeldy]

17. Several months ago . . .

I found a famous doctor, and a drive-time radio host with my name, among others.

I want to start a "____ ________ Club." :)

[idgiehkt]

19. I'm a very successful black female attorney.

and apparently I am not well-liked.

[reyd reid reed]

20. Apparently I'm a quite prolific author...

Too bad they're not all mine.

The first hit on the page is, though.

:D

[NNadir]

21. Yes. And I can't believe it's all there, the part with the water ski,

the carton of dental floss and those blood spattered semi nude pictures of Pat Nixon ironing one of Dick's shirts.

Their interpretation of what was happening there is fallacious. I didn't even know about the Spanish Civil War when that happened, and I was born many years after the war ended.

Who do I sue?

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. It's how I learned I was nominated twice for a Parsec award last week

:)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. I wrote three books for caregrivers of Alzheimer's disease

so these come up. But every once in a while a library adds one of the books to their collection, and then for a while they post it. Otherwise I would never know. Good practice to look every once in a while. Thanks for the identity theft heads up. I never thought of that. :)

[everythingsxen]

24. I have one of the most common names in North America

[Radio_Lady]

31. Can we guess? John Smith?

[everythingsxen]

32. Close..

I have the 3rd most common first name...

And the 26th most common last name.

[NMMNG]

25. I have written a slew of religous/inspirational books and articles

:rofl:

Technically it's a woman who has my name who has written all of that.

I also apparently donated to a non-profit organizaton that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities somewhere between July and December of '03, though I have no recollection of doing so. However I work in the field so it sounds like something I'd do. :shrug:

[Robeson]

27. "I have written a slew of religous/inspirational books....

...and articles".... :spray: :rofl: :rofl:

[NMMNG]

35. Now why is that so funny?

[Robeson]

40. Probably because that would be about as realistic as me....

...doing the same...:rofl:

[Tab]

26. The odd thing is

I've written and published lots of stuff, so not unsurprisingly, I find links - everything from amazon.com (books) to newsletters, whatever. Every once in a while, maybe once a year, if I'm overly bored, I google my name.

However, I have a very unusual full first name, particularly when coupled with my last name.

I was surprised to come across some with the identical same name, but reversed (his last was my first, my first was his last) who lived in Germany.

He apparently now lives in the U.S.

It's so odd - I thought I was the only person in the world with this name, now I find there's someone else with exactly the same name, but reversed. It's like a private club of two.

And he even lives near one of my relatives.

Weird.

And if not for the 'net, I'd never have known this.

[catbert836]

28. I was a commadore in the US Navy

during the First Barbary War. I also played a role in negotiations with the Ottoman Empire. There's a town in Indiana named after me.

[Synnical]

42. A town named after you!

How cool is that! Congrats on your immortality.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

29. My name, in quotes, brings up first my parents' company

(which uses my name but isn't named after me--LONG story!) and then me. Apparently the school jazz band has some lists of students online.

:)

[Liberal In Texas]

33. Yep. I come up. And I have a common name.

Kind of eerie.

What's more strange is to google your DU handle. Now that will freak you out.

[Tikki]

34. There are just tons of folks...

both men and women, famous and infamous whom have the exact same 'Real" name as me.
Surprisingly, many spell their first name the same way as I do.

[auntAgonist]

36. yup . I have.

It seems I'm a psychologist, a lawyer, a speaker, I've written many papers. I am a researcher at Mott Hospital in Ann Arbor ..

I didn't know I was so accomplished.
:rofl:


aA

[txwhitedove]

39. My real name not common, but found me on the first page

along with an author on Indian history.

Note date, searching for me in week after H.Katrina:
13447. -- Jan Looking for you-- Call (888) ###-####
by sss123, 9/2/05 20:26 ET
Looking for Jan of Bay St. Louis. Please call PricewaterhouseCoopers Crisis
Hotline (888) ###-#### and Call Annette at (713) ###-####.

[sakabatou]

41. Somehow, I get a bodybuilder...

[sendero]

43. My screen name..

... and my real name are so common (my quoted real first/last name gets over 170K hits) that I cannot find anything. :(

[City Lights]

44. LTTEs I had published in NYTimes, Time, and local paper come up. eom

[billyskank]

46. Apparently I was killed in Baghdad

Shot in the head. :scared:

(Actually it was a journalist with the same name as me).

[NJ Democrats]

47. I just did

There is some doctor with the same name as me. He works at MSU and used to be at Yale.