Everything can be found on google, right? Even yourself? During class, when we all googled ourselves, I realized that I can be googled. While most of the search results had nothing to do with me, there were a few that did. I was able to find a link to my facebook page, high school sports rosters, and two pictures that I drew in my high school art class. I did not expect any of these findings, except maybe the link to my facebook. I realized that I am much more googleable than I previously thought. It was fun to be able to google myself and find actual results that pertained to me. However, although it was entertaining to find myself on google, I do not wish that I was more googleable. I would not want others to be able to find information about me that I feel is personal or private. I do not think that it is necessary for people to be able to google me, because those people whom I wouldn't mind knowing my personal information I know well enough that they could ask me and not have to google me.
Having the ability to find yourself on google does have some advantages in that people who are trying to find links to your sites such as facebook or twitter would be able to do so. Also, it is fun to find information about yourself on a site such as google. However, I believe that this is where the advantages end. It is very risky to have personal information available to the world, especially today when internet stalking has become much more prevalent. There is also some information that is embarrassing or very private that many people would not want others to be able to access. There are great risks in strangers knowing too much information about you and using it to be able to access other information, to steal, or to stalk. Also, anyone can put information online, and therefore much of the information that is provided is probably not true. It could be detrimental if someone were famous enough that there was a lot of information about them on google, because there are many people who would post false information that could be harmful to reputations.
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I completely agree with your opinion on the matter. Although it is fun to find information about yourself, It can also be very dangerous that anyone in the world can see this information. I like your point that much of the information on the information may not be true anyway so what does it matter.
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