Footprints
Every person on the planet earth leaves a footprint.
Digitally speaking, you can follow your own footprints in the sands of
cyberspace, thanks to Google, and probably a hundred other search engines.
Someone told me once that what another person thinks about me is none of my
business, but Google is kind enough to save, file and make available everything
that has ever been posted or published about me anywhere in print or online. Do
you really want to know? I hadn’t really given it much thought, since my life
is pretty much an open book, but this week my Master’s class had an assignment
to do a “Vanity search” and post a blog about what you discovered in the
results. I learned a lot about me.
My name officially is, Joseph L. Percevecz on all of my
identification cards, bank records and such, but birth certificate, passport
and really official documents list my full middle name. When I searched my
full, given name in parenthesis I came up with only 9 results. Joseph L came up
with only 5 results. Most people know me as Joe Percevecz, so I gave that a try
and came up with 105 results. My wife likes to call me by my given name and
Joseph Percevecz is usually the way I list myself on any form that asks me to
put down my name, so I was not surprised to come up with 634 results for Joseph
Percevecz. My Facebook page uses this name, any social media has this name
listed and I own several domains that popped up in my Vanity Search.
Family friends that have known me since my mother was alive
sometimes call me Joey. So I did a search for “Joey Percevecz” and actually
came up with 320 listings. This kind of surprised me, until I started reading
the list. I have a couple of email addresses that use onejoeyp or 1joeyp and my
E-portfolio is on my web site at www.onejoeyp.com. My
blog is on Google at www.onejoeyp.blogspot.com so
I have a lot more exposure to Joey than I realized.
Do you realize how much exposure YOU have on the World Wide
Web?
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