Over Exposure

I googled myself today. I appeared approximately 640 times on the net. I also googled my image and there were quite a few photos of me as well pictures that were associated with sites where I posted comments. I must say my “prominence” on the web created a bit of internal anxiety as I wondered how my journey into cyber space via blogging and various online social and professional networking sites has severely bruised my sense of anonyminity.

To put things in persepective I googled Maxwell, he appeared about 200,00 times. Then I googled Obama and he appeared approximately 200 milion times. In comparison my 640 results is meager. For a private citizen such as myself my appeance on the web aggregrated by Google search engine was a bit of a shock, despite the fact that I have actively engaged in an internet self-marketing and promotion campagin. For some reason I did not make the connection that I would appear several hundred times via an online search. I thought: “I put so much of myself out there” and my mind began to race as to how I can reign in my online presence. Then it dawned on me: I can’t, once it’s in cyberspace it exists forever. I can only going forward be more vigilant in how I manage my online presence. I’m curious. Google yourself. What did you find?