When I search for myself, it's very easy to find information. My name is not very common. Just searching Mark Lelli returns my facebook, myspace, and twitter; adding a middle name or quotes finds everything else. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. While I could be found by friends looking for my websites or information about me, I could also be stalked or harassed. Not only were my websites shown, my pictures were. If there was a compromise of information and something I didn't want was realeased....through the click of a button my life could be trashed.
Google has many advantages in terms of searching for specific people. Say you hear a friend's name, but you can't find anything about them. All you have to do is search online and, depending on the originality of their name, they are in front of your face. However, the disadvatages are much more profound. Anyone can see anything about you. In one of the articles we read about google there was an issue with cache and old websites still in googles mainframes. If you delete something online you expect it to be gone, but with this excess cache it could take months even years to completely remove all of the content you deleted. That is a little to long for comfort.
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I like how you mentioned the article that we read in your post. I agree that some of the tings that can be found online about me are probably not things that I want the whole world to be able to see. Being googleable seems very dangerous to me, especially when it poses the risk of being stalked or having personal information stolen. Although it is pretty fun to be able to google yourself, I think that I would rather not have any information about me available to the world through google.
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