Ever wonder how wide your own self is splashed across the web? What is posted you didn't have anything to do with and were never asked if it was okay?
As an author I look every now and then to see how much chatter a particular story is generating. My personal info I'm not that free with for security reasons. Sometimes I wonder where they managed to find personal data or pictures posted to the net? Google has unbelievable resources, and bots, to research everyone's life.
There was a recent post of a story from another author. I like to research interesting authors and found several sites holding data. Curiosity thing led me to check if UF-2 is trending or are there any sites still holding onto it? The "Way Back Machine" holds onto darn near everything including my old web pages so that was a given.
Not sure why google included a picture of me in the search? http://tinyurl.com/ky67gwo
Sure would be interesting to know what kind of search engine code they are using to associate me with my novels and stories? Probably wouldn't understand it anyway. I wrote code back in the dark ages. Wished I'd been outside waving when the Google street machine came by taking pictures. Yep the farm is on the web too. And their satellite view shows amazing detail down to..., Well that good.
Wave everyone. We are being watched and photographed.
Have fun with life
It's too short to take it seriously
I'm going to put my 4020 JD back together now that it will start, thank you very much
always,
Barb
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Make new friends and find out about yourself
My own real life experience has been that a proportion of new friends will do an internet search on you turning up things you never knew existed. They might of course not be friends you want to keep!
Rhona McCloud
Cheating
Yes, well I was impatient and looked on the Internet for a place that I could read the rest of UF-2, and found that page. I am not playing with tractors, or track hoes any more.
And, no I did not find a place to get the rest of the story, I I guess I have to be patient. :(
Is it an ego thing?
'Cause I've never had any interest in doing a search on my name or any of my screen names. I can't control what others post so there's no reason to be concerned about it.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
Ego? or you thinking Egotistical? Hummm, let me think
Pride in what we have accomplished isn't prideful (sinful)
How many things do you NOT check to make sure everything is right? Ask for SS # and then they say it back to make sure they heard it correctly. Along with credit cards, driver's license, name, amount on the check, credit, etc.
If I'm checking to see if me is still me is that ego? Yes I'm interested in how well my stories are trending. Several of them went viral on the net. I wouldn't have known without checking how far they had spread.
Take it down a notch. Check the tires, oil, gas, on your vehicles? On the plane? You bet your life I do. There is no where to pull off to the side and park if things go from good to bad. Did I look in the mirror this morning and maybe a dozen or more times a day if I'm working in the house or out in public? I'm guilty. When I come in from all day in the field I usually don't look. Sometimes all there is are two white eyeballs looking back. It's a frightful sight. Bath first if possible.
Ego: a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
egotistical: excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
Have fun with life
If it gets too much poke it with a stick
Something may change
always,
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl