{"id":220,"date":"2012-02-09T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T22:13:21","slug":"2012-366-day-40-internet-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/2012-366-day-40-internet-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"2012-366 Day 40 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Internet Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post inspired because my name shows up in a blog much more popular than my own today<\/a>! Less than two days until the softball tournament!<\/p>\n

Have you ever Googled yourself? (Wow, I wish there was a better phrase for that.) Are you the first person that comes up under your name? What about your screen name? If you share your name with a celebrity or just have a common name you’ll have to do a bit of digging to find yourself. Since I have neither of those things, I come up pretty early in any Google search. How early? Well, let’s take a little trip. (Remember to log out of your Google account when searching – or better yet use incognito or InPrivate browsing sessions, otherwise Google’s accumulated information on you will skew the results.) All results as of 2\/9\/12.<\/p>\n

Matthew Worland
\nResults: 1,440,000
\nHighest Rank: 1
\nPercent of top 5: 80%
\nMy LinkedIn profile<\/a> takes the top spot here, the second entry is for my office hours<\/a>. Oddly enough, the third entry is for a Facebook page, but not mine (then again, I have my Facebook page somewhat locked down). My Twitter account<\/a> comes in fourth, and the fifth is a White Pages search that lists four cities, three of which I’ve lived in, so I’m assuming there’s at least some reference to me there (not interested enough to go look).<\/p>\n

Matt Worland
\nResults: 690,000
\nHighest Rank: 3
\nPercent of top 5: 40%
\nA CAD drafter who owns mattworland.com bumps me out of the top spot here, although the homepage of my site (mworland.com<\/a>) comes in a respectable third. I’m listed under the fifth link, the collection of Matt Worland’s on LinkedIn. Amusingly, a link to my (severely out of date) ratemyprofessors page<\/a> shows up on the first page here (these reviews are from back when I was a Graduate Assistant teaching lab classes in 2005).<\/p>\n

disciplev1
\nResults: 3,300
\nHighest Rank: 1
\nPercent of top 5: 100%
\nIt’s not particularly odd that I own this one, as it’s the screen name I use all over the internet. In fact, I came up with it in High School, so I have accounts that I forgot about when I scroll through these search results. I originally wanted disciple21, but that was taken at a lot of places. My first substitution was disciplet1, but, as some people pointed out, that looks like disciplette 1, which wasn’t really what I was going for. Since I was taking french at the time, and vingt-et-un is 21 in french, disciplev1 worked for me. I also liked the fact that if you took it as versioning, it could be interpreted as disciple version 1, which seemed appropriate given my computer background.<\/p>\n

All in all, not bad, although probably a little easy as my name isn’t Thomas Hanks or William Smith. <\/p>\n

Weight: 233.4 Max: 240 Min: 233.4 Body Fat %: 24.7
\nYearly Mileage: 20.2 miles (+3.2 miles)
\nCurrent Belt: Purple \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Next Belt: Orange \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Next Test Date: 3\/3\/12
\nFitocracy Level: 12 (15830 points, 1980\/2750 to next level) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ID: disciplev1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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