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    How Much Personal Information is Actually Out There?

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    • coliverC
      coliver
      last edited by

      Haha. When you search my username the first thing that pops up is "fan" art/images for Conner/Oliver a couple on the show How to get Away with Murder.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @coliver
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        @coliver said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        @GlennBarley said:

        Have you ever Googled your own name? What about your current (or former) address? Have you ever tried to find something you wrote 10 years ago? Twenty years ago? Can you find a picture of your own face on the Internet?

        Google my name, it is entertaining.

        A few years ago, Symantec called me at work. They were dying. They looked up "IT professional" and the top non-stock photo hit was my avatar 🙂

        Wow... that's still true.

        That's amazing! SEO at work.

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        • stacksofplatesS
          stacksofplates @MattSpeller
          last edited by stacksofplates

          @MattSpeller said:

          https://www.google.ca/search?q=matthew+speller&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=965&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ46DWu-vKAhVP02MKHdenAaYQ_AUIBigB#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=mspeller

          Ha I never realized that was a painting or cartoon. I just thought it was a photograph.

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @stacksofplates
            last edited by

            @johnhooks lol it's fan art by someone of Nick Offerman

            http://offermanwoodshop.com/

            http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644406/

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Offerman

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates @MattSpeller
              last edited by

              @MattSpeller said:

              @johnhooks lol it's fan art by someone of Nick Offerman

              http://offermanwoodshop.com/

              http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644406/

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Offerman

              I knew it was NIck Offerman, I always just saw the tiny gravatar so I just thought it was an actual photo of Ron.

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates
                last edited by

                Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by DustinB3403

                  I am not any of these people... come on google...

                  Edit: I do however use that purple car for my Gravatar and SW Icons.

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                  • RojoLocoR
                    RojoLoco
                    last edited by

                    No pics or links to me by searching Philip Ruff or Phil Ruff.

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1
                      last edited by

                      It's a me!

                      Well.... 3 images on the first two lines anyway. One of em is the #foundSAM from Spiceworld selfie.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                        last edited by

                        @johnhooks said:

                        Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.

                        Or you have some weird kink with dry wall. Ewwww...

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                        • stacksofplatesS
                          stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @johnhooks said:

                          Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.

                          Or you have some weird kink with dry wall. Ewwww...

                          I probably could have worded that better, but I never imagined anyone would think of it that way.

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @stacksofplates
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                            @johnhooks said:

                            How to know you've searched cable management in the past... I searched jhooks and all that came up were cable management hooks and associated anchors.

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch
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                              I used to be near the top of a Google search on my name, but then another Jared using the handle "TheSmokingAndroid" start up all the social media stuff supporting his tech reviews.

                              A search on the online nickname I started using in the 1990's hits my social media.

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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates
                                last edited by

                                If I type in my most common username, it's all pictures of my old car and my motorcycle haha.

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                                • dafyreD
                                  dafyre
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                                  Yea... that's scary... I got stuff going back way, way back.... I mean like back to when I still had to dial up to a BBS to get online!

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    I've been blogging daily since Feb, 2000 so there is a LOT of me out there.

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                                    • dafyreD
                                      dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      I've been blogging daily since Feb, 2000 so there is a LOT of me out there.

                                      I've been in various forums for a long time... I found a post to a Debian thread about WordPerfect 8, lol. Right near the beginning of 2000. If I dug around, I could go back farther.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm sure that I have older stuff, but that was when I was on daily.... and daily ever since.

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                                        • nadnerBN
                                          nadnerB
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                                          My most recent username: JediMasterOdd nets results (mostly from Twitter), and some of my other usernames that I have used are far too common to find me easily.

                                          nadnerB yields a few results in a Google Image search (scrolling required). Just SW and ML though

                                          There are a few people using my IRL name but no actual images of me show up in a Google Image search. A few avatars of mine do though.

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