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July 07, 2008
Ego Surfing what is it?
I was bopping around Slashdot today and found this interesting post:
I was ego-surfing the other day, and was surprised to discover that I was listed as a member of an on-line dating service. It turns out these scamsters generate web pages for lots of (FirstName, LastName) combos, each claiming that the named individual is a member of their service.
There is more than one way to use an identity, but that raised an interesting point.
"Ego surfing" is doing a search of your name on the internet. There are doubtless many people with the same name as you but it is worthwhile to do so just to see if something that doesn't have anything to do with your might come up. I discovered that the top 4 results pertain to me but then it is mixed with many others.
It is worth noting that somethings I posed comments on nearly a decade ago are in the top 20 list, so remember what you say in the past will define you in the future.
Posted by Peter at July 7, 2008 01:01 PM