What do you find when you google your name?

Today is the day I am supposed to post something to this blog but I had no ideas of what I wanted to discuss. I could have done anything about why facebook is so great or why it is terrible or ....I just had an idea for next week possibly the irony of why the older generations being so against but recently I have seen many of them jumping on the bandwagon, hmmm I'll think about it. Back to today's post, I wanted something interesting but due to a long distracting week I hadn't even payed attention to the recent events outside of my little world. My solution, I Googled "facebook" and found this news story titled "Why tons of Facebook pages will wind up in Google search" It perked my interest because I once googled my name and my facebook page popped up. That kind of bothered me to know that even though you could only see some information my profile was available to to any random person anywhere in the world who uses Google (the biggest search engine).

It was time to read on so at least I could find comfort or have a legitimate reason to be infuriated as to why google had access to individual facebook pages. Here is google's answer:

"Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information," Google reps wrote in a 2009 post introducing real-time search, "and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content."

Basically there are many businesses, musicians, celebrities, etc. who use facebook as a way to connect with customers, or fans. For their benefit their pages need to come up in a google search. This makes sense and in fact sounds very beneficial, a quick status update or skimming thorough pictures could give someone all the information they need to potentially bring in more business.

They did mention that private profiles are safe but I was still skeptical because I had seen my page pop up before in a search. I was pretty sure I had since increased my security settings but I had to know for sure. First result: linkedin (that's fine I want people to find that one) Second: twitter (I guess that is okay because I only use that for this class, no personal info) and then there it was the third result. a little bothered I decided to click on it so I might be able to find a way to make sure it doesn't show up again. What do you know there is another girl with my exact same name! I've only heard of a few other Sereens but they all spell it different, not only does this girl spell her name the same but she has the same last name! What a blow to my ego, I thought I was the one and only. Oh well...I wish I knew her then we could be friends.