Survey: Googling your own name is fairly common
About half of the online adult population has looked up themselves or someone else online, according to a survey released Sunday. A good 36 percent said they have searched the Web for someone with whom they’ve lost touch, and 9 percent have dug up information on someone they were dating. At the same time, 60 percent said they are not worried about how much information about them is on the Internet. The findings, published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, reflect how people are sharing more and more of their lives on the Internet, as well as how Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and MySpace are encouraging users to post their home videos, photographs and personal profiles online, including data ranging from their favorite movies to their cell phone number.
The increasing amount of personal information online has drawn concern among privacy advocates, who worry about how it could be used and who controls it. Most recently, they decried a new Facebook advertising program that broadcasted its users’ online purchases and other online actions to their friends and network. In response, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized and gave users the ability to permanently shut off the program. But the Pew report suggested that most Internet users are not concerned about their personal information online. The study found that 61 percent have not felt compelled to limit it, while 38 percent have taken steps to control it. It may be sometimes quite surprising to see what the Internet knows about you…
Source: SFgate
Comments(18)
Yayy
1st comment
btw my name does not show many results
meh. my name just shows up 4 result.
Only 3 results :/
Well the Truth is ..where there is knowledge there will be seekers.. where there are movies there will be pirates . and yet we ask “whats in a name”
You hear phrases like “Go look him up on google” or “Just google him”.
But I have tried a few names before and I will be damned if I can find any remotely useful or relevant info whatsoever!
I guess there is no information on my name, 0 Results
maybe you losers should do something worth recording.
like shag a bicycle or something.
There’s loads on me
@8 – Bill Gates
I even find your sex tape on google… cool
hmph. Real adults google Taylor Rain.
g erdelja
At Comment #1 ;;
im not surprised at that, you have such loving parents they blessed you with a messed up name
lol.. apparently im some big shot corporate attorney in new york..
Now I understand why Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are always Top 1 and 2… they are stupid and bored.
@ 10
damn shes one fine piece of a$$
OMG my name shows up more than 10.000.000 times.
How many Malakotriftis are out there???!
I googled myself last night… What?!?
I couldn’t get anyone else to do it for me!
i sand papered my finger prints and started wearing a darth vader mask long ago, i dont even know who i am O.o