Have you Googled yourself recently?

by Victoria Whithear
10th June 2013

Because I'm avoiding the changes to chapter one of my book and everyone is paranoid about privacy this week, I thought I'd have a look. There are a few more people tracing sites around since the last time I did it and it was interesting to see that although my Facebook is locked pretty tight a reference made by my tutor that she didn't actually link to my profile is visible, but what did make me smile was the images section. Type my name into google, hit images and then see if you can see yourself. Among my goodreads selection and random Aussie relatives almost all of you are there. Well, it amused me anyway.

But to the point. Does the privacy thing bother you? Is privacy as everyone previously understood it outdated? Would your opinion change after you were published?

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I have recently changed my name by deed poll, so its only my online writing activites under Astor E Teller that people know about me....

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Astor Edwyn
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11/06/2013

I just googled me and apart from three images of myself, mostly lists of things.... god knows what! haha

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11/06/2013

Oh, that was disturbing!

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