Looking yourself up online

@sunnflr (2767)
United States
August 30, 2008 10:13pm CST
Do you ever type your own name in the search bar and see what comes up? I do it ever so often just to see which of my articles are showing up. I'm getting more and more on there! If you haven't tried it you should. See what's out there about yourself.
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@hichamov (507)
• Morocco
31 Aug 08
i did that twice, it was so funny to see ma self at opera.com lol the only one who listed me lol
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
31 Aug 08
You might show up more now. I don't know if any of our mylot stuff shows up for some people or not. With the tags I'd think something would somewhere, but I've never seen any of my discussions in the search results.
• Philippines
31 Aug 08
Ha! I have done this a lot. I even tried to use my nick and see what comes up. Little i know throughout those years i made a lot of empty sites and blogs. I found them from my searches. It's good even though i wanted to delete most of them, but i cant remember my username or my password, let alone my emails. It's so interesting when you search your name, and you get a hundred results. I also try to search my friends name see if i could find some of my friends that i havent been keep in touch with. I found two of my friends online back in highschool. I was really to keep in touch with them after 10yrs!
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
31 Aug 08
Yeah, I look up other members of my family to see if anything is out there about them. My husband and son don't do any writing online so I haven't found anything about them yet.
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@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
31 Aug 08
Yep I've done it and I think it's cool to see my blogs and articles come up, lol. I also do it with the other name I use online, lol. :)
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
31 Aug 08
Yeah I do my real name and then my screen name because I use that for some of my sites. It's cooler seeing what happens with my real name though.
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• United States
31 Aug 08
I do check to see what is out there with my name attached. Sometimes I am surprised by what I find. Just recently I found a woman with the same name and my last name isn't common. I think I might email her. My sister did this with someone with her name and they still keep in touch, in fact somehow I ended up writing to her because her email address was so similar to my sisters. It was fun chatting with her.
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
31 Aug 08
That's cool. Weird the way we make friends some times. You should email the person and see what happens.
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@hiddenwing (3719)
• China
31 Aug 08
I have ever type my won name in the search bar. However, lots of other people have the same name with mine.Thus, usually, I find a lot of other things that has nothing to do with me
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
31 Aug 08
I guess that would be a problem if you had a common name. My name isn't very common so it's usually me I find when I search.
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@MOMMASAM (1004)
• United States
31 Aug 08
oh, i've done this. i'm an orthopedic surgeon in florida ! it amazes me as i think my name is unusual and then i find dozens with my name. i also try my other names when i was married.
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