The article we were assigned was very informative, if not a little frightening. When online, I always try to remember to not write anything I wouldn't want printed in the newspaper. It is all available to the public no matter how "private" the site may claim to be.
I Googled my name and was surprised I had as many hits as I had. I first did a search without quotations. I got a lot of hits on my last name due to some guy in Germany "Joachim Gauck". He is apparently some big-wig in Germany.
When I put quotations around my whole name, I got only 1 1/2 pages of hits. One was from Facebook, some were lists of names of people such as mylife.com.. There were a couple from newspaper articles written for Sullivan University and that was about it. Nothing really came up that surprised me. I guess I'm more of a lurker than a poster.
Anyway, I do try to be very cautious online. Even on Facebook, if one of my "Friends" starts to write using foul or abusive language, I automatically un-friend them. One, because I don't appreciate that type of language and two, because I don't want to be linked to those posts in any way.
Well, that's my .02 cents worth on privacy. I probably should blog more, but I've always been the type that wanted to start writing in a diary, but only got 1-2 days worth of writing then threw it aside. I believe in living in the moment, not in the past.
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I had a long response to this, but there was so much foul and abusive language that the filters just took it apart.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.
I do appreciate your outlook on things, and thinking about who is going to (or could) see a post has often made go back and use different "emphasis" words.