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How often do you Google yourself?
We now know the answers to the previous poll question were no and yes, just as you predicted, as it turns out…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Well..I just did…But that wasn’t ME that came up!
I am unemployed and job searching. So I Google myself more often to see what employers might see when searching my background. My name is not common…
I just did and I found that I had been shot and killed by a sniper in Massaponax, Va., on Friday, October 11th, 2002.
My assailants were one John Malveaux and one John Mohammad.
Wouldn’t you know I would be just one more victim of a muslim jihadist.
Irony of ironies: I was shot by gun stolen in Texas.
All I can say at this point is that news of my demise has been both premature and greatly exagerated.
Gooogle me?
Never.
I just Googled myself (including my city) and found a review of “Runaway Bride” that I posted to IMDB.com in 1999. At the time, I wrote that it threatened to become a one-joke movie in the first half, but improved in the second half.
If one is heavily involved in pro-life work, and if you write frequent letters to the editor, it is surprising how many times your name comes up, even ones sent several years ago. Any activities connected to the Internet could possibly have your name on it.
Very occasionally. I share a name (very slightly different spelling) with a Baywatch/Lifetime movie actress (I’m the pretty one, obviously), and I also look very young for my age/experience level, which makes working in my male-dominated industry somewhat difficult. I took out a URL to put my resume on, since my industry is one where resumes are very uncommonly shared – it’s all word-of-mouth and prior work connections - and that way if someone googles me, they see some evidence of the fact that I actually have quite a bit of industry experience. Otherwise everyone just assumes I’m a college intern. I put the URL on my business card, so that whenever anyone asks for my contact info they have a direct but passive way to find out my job history. Hm, I should probably update that resume, come to think of it. It’s a few months behind.
I also have a LinkedIn profile, but that site is badly set up for people in my industry, and a pain to maintain. So I don’t really have many connections – it’s just there to proactively maintain a moderately controlled web presence. I don’t think my Facebook shows up on Google – I opted out of that back when profiles first became visible to search engines.
I have two goals in doing this, besides simply counteracting my youthful appearance: holding my own against the aforementioned Baywatch actress, and pushing to the bottom of the page a really unflattering picture of me from a newspaper article about an ethics debate I won some years ago. I was just recently out of the hospital and a few months into physical recovery at that point and I basically have never looked worse. :P