Ever look up your name on the net? - Page 3

Mmsfoxxie · ‎06-19-2010

I've googled myself and haven't seen anything untrue but the info varies depending on my first married name and my current one. Most info is under my first married name such as old addresses and phone numbers. I'm connected to my kids and their dad. Little info connecting me to my current husband whom I've been married to for 15 years.

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore to be happy”. (By Nightbirde, singer of the song, It’s Ok)

Melzie · ‎08-01-2010

@Venezia wrote:
People have been known to lose out on jobs because of information pulled up on the internet, which didn't even apply to them.

Just someone with the same name. And it can be incredibly difficult to sort out. The internet is a double-edged sword.

I agree. I used to have one of those cards where you earn a free hotel room after so many stays and one day when I checked in the man said, "welcome back." I thought that was odd as I'd never been there before. So I gave him my license when he asked for an ID and said he would fix the address. What? He said my address showed as N. Dakota but I have aways lived in the northeast. We just assumed it was a computer glitch. Anyway, I got a free room that night. This happened to me two other times in different cities after that so one day I googled my name, which is not very common, and to my surprise there was another person in ND with the same exact name, even the same middle initial. She had a page on LinkedIn so I looked at it and she was some sort of a professional who traveled a lot, which explains why I aways had points for a free room, why she never noticed that she was missing points, and the addresses kept being changed from one state to another. No one ever noticed that we were two different people. I don't travel much any more, so thank you to her for the free rooms, but after that I never presented my card whenever I checked in. Not worth the hassle of trying to fix a dumb computer. :smileyvery-happy:

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

Yes, and I get a good laugh every time!

@Malcontent

The website I'm thinking of implies arrest records, court records, and bankruptcies, in order to get you to sign up and pay for specific info, which is pfhishing for your personal info.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

@Melzie wrote:
@Venezia wrote:
People have been known to lose out on jobs because of information pulled up on the internet, which didn't even apply to them.

Just someone with the same name. And it can be incredibly difficult to sort out. The internet is a double-edged sword.
I agree. I used to have one of those cards where you earn a free hotel room after so many stays and one day when I checked in the man said, "welcome back." I thought that was odd as I'd never been there before. So I gave him my license when he asked for an ID and said he would fix the address. What? He said my address showed as N. Dakota but I have aways lived in the northeast. We just assumed it was a computer glitch. Anyway, I got a free room that night. This happened to me two other times in different cities after that so one day I googled my name, which is not very common, and to my surprise there was another person in ND with the same exact name, even the same middle initial. She had a page on LinkedIn so I looked at it and she was some sort of a professional who traveled a lot, which explains why I aways had points for a free room, why she never noticed that she was missing points, and the addresses kept being changed from one state to another. No one ever noticed that we were two different people. I don't travel much any more, so thank you to her for the free rooms, but after that I never presented my card whenever I checked in. Not worth the hassle of trying to fix a dumb computer.

@Melzie Probably that "auto correct" thing. LOL

cotton4me · ‎03-09-2010

There seem to be a lot of people with my name, some of them famous, so I get lost in the shuffle. I've never been able to find the real me, although I'm sure it's there somewhere.

Pandalady · ‎05-14-2011

I actually looked up my maiden name and it turns out that someone has that name and she is a TV personality. Could make my HS classmates envious if they think it's me...LOL

I'm not short...I'm fun size!

Tessa Mendoza · ‎01-27-2020

No, but I know a man who had a business enemy that spread awful lies about him. There for all who Googled him to see. He spent a fortune trying to get it taken down, and it wold be for a short time. Then, up it would go again. Poor guy.

I hate all our personal info being out there.

Think I wil Google myself now. Scared what I will see.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

I looked up my dad once and they claim he is 112. He passed in 2005. Lots of crazy info comes up. My husband was mixed with his dad's info. Crazy stuff.🤪😩

Malcontent · ‎05-24-2015

Tessa:

My name is unusual for even we Italians, add on my married name, I’m a Dr. Seuss character.

My address and my ‘private’ land line phone number are correct, but everything else is not. It does say that my husband (of over 50 years; that they say I’m divorced from) is now a relative and lives at this address too.

Crazy juju.