Jul 31 2006
Holy Moly, I’ve been OUTED…
I was looking through my stats yesterday, and I saw a Google search for my name - first name and last name - that brought someone here, to my blog.
Whut? How’d that happen?
I do a bit of vanity surfing occasionally. For example, if you go here, you’ll see that my blog is valued at about $47,000.00 (but today, if you are one of the first 20 callers, I’ll give you a 10% discount. BUT WAIT! That’s not all! I’ll toss in a set of Ginsu knives that can cut through aluminum cans! Act now and all this can be yours for just 2,120 payments of $19.95 EACH! Hurry!)
And I Google people sometimes. Including myself.
I mostly Google myself for security reasons. I like knowing that my name brings back a bazillion genealogy sites. Evidently, people with my name are either really into genealogy or else maybe my name is descended from somebody important. Who knows. There is a writer of children’s books with my name and a professor of hispanic studies. There are many, many people who are “out” on the Internet who have the same name as me.
But I never found MYSELF in those Google searches, and so I would hunker down a little more secure in my online anonymity. I was completely anonymous.
Until yesterday.
Because? Suddenly, when one Googles my first and last name, the first site that comes up is this one, my blog. It’s not on page 27, it’s not after the writer of children’s books or the professor of hispanic studies. It’s FIRST.
So, say, a colleague went and Googled my name (hi, colleagues! please don’t go reading the archives, I didn’t mean a WORD of it, not any of it! I swear!), this site is the first one that will come up. Or, if my mom were to Google my name - she’d know I was making fun of her about the ham.
The thing is, I’m screwed. How did this happen? I don’t use my last name anywhere on this website. I really only ask the question rhetorically because my husband already figured out how it happened. I’m going to try to correct it if I can.
To be honest, I had been flirting with the idea of being out. I am kind of sort of out already. For example, anyone who gets an email from me sees my full name. I’ve been quoted a few times where the writer quoted me by first and last name. And? The biggest one - someday I want to be a real boy writer and not just a puppet blogger if I’m good and that would likely involve my last name. And maybe a blue fairy.
Unless I take a pen-name. Linda Roquelare, Linda Twain, or perhaps Monique Kashmir. Something.
But now that I’m already kind of out I’m not sure how I feel. Do I want my parents reading about my sex life? Do I want my employees reading about my work issues? Do I want my employees reading about my sex life? Do I want my older kids reading about any of this?
What do other bloggers do?
The thing is that I want to write about what I want to write about. Having parents and coworkers and neighbors read my blog might impact that. I don’t want to change my writing, my topics, my language. The more I think about it, to be honest, I wouldn’t be mortified over any of it, except I suppose it could put my job in jeopardy (dammit, I shoulda listened to Dooce, huh?)
So is it possible to put that Genie back into the bottle or what? I’d love to hear stories of what others have done and how they deal with similar concerns. Thanks for sharing.
Best Regards,
JustLinda
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Damn. Now I gotta go Google myself and I’m going to feel bad no matter what! If I REALLY pop up, I’m going to be like you (Worried n shit) and if I don’t I’m afraid my feelings may get hurt! UGH!
Put the damn genie back! NOW!
My only google hit is for a stupid interview I did with the Tampa Tribune sayin I’m movin away from the hurricanes. Why? I answered a survey. What was I thinking.
Did you see the link to that British chic living in France that someone posted on Dooce? She got dooced. “Petite anglais”. You can google her. Good blog.
This is one of the reasons I don’t have a blog. I just visit them.
I write no matter what people may think, including my employer. If there is something that I don’t want people to know I simply don’t write it. In terms of what you want people to see and not see, you could always just censor yourself and call it a day. I would still attempt to remove any link from your real name to your blog.
As long as you are not stating who you work for, or releasing company secrets, I don’t think that they can do anything to you. If you are just bitching about work, that’s one thing, you do not appear to overly point out who you work for. I bet you would be safe. Check out the bloging policy from your employer just for safety sake.
I just started a second blog so I can say things that I don’t want anyone in “real life” to know.
I emailed the blog address to my short list of close online friends and swore them to secrecy.
I don’t know what else to do.
Well I’m glad I found you too. Had to goolge you myself. Sorry for disappearing so abruptly - I LOVE the new digs.
Holy crap! That’s kinda scary! I’m going to google mine and see if my blog pops up and if it does, uh well I’d be screwed if my family read it. lol
I had a blog where I was all the way out, everyone knew all about me. for me, I found that it inhibited me. So, I reinvented myself.
I created a blog that my immediate family and friends know about but I can complain about dad, grandma and grandpa and Old Aunt Sally or my former best friend who is a pain in the ass all I want.
Now I am off to google me to see what comes up.
I haven’t been up to anything recently, but so it goes. Such is life. What can I say? Pretty much not much exciting going on to speak of. I haven’t gotten much done lately, but I don’t care.
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