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 Is privacy as everyone previously understood it outdated?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've just done it and the only thing it links to that is my is my twitter page, but when I add my fake middle name I do get more images of my current and pass profile photos

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