Never Google your name

Never Google your real name, either.  I did mine... and was shocked to discover, amongst other things, a letter I'd written to New Internationalist magazine way back in 1994, long before we even had the internet as we know it.  It was on the subject of meat-eating and animal rights.

How on earth did that get on there?

Maybe because it was on a 'controversial' subject?  Maybe because it came to someone's attention? 

Paranoia strikes deep...

I'm not surprised you're paranoid after that . I'm now wondering about the letter I wrote to the council 30 odd years ago about the travellers' camp that had sprouted on my way to work which forced me to take a 2 mile detour on my bike because of the vicious dogs running loose .......I was only young, in my first job, and more concerned about having to cycle further to work than the fact the travellers had no permanent site to call home ...............ah well, as you say, best not to Google my name. 

I've firmly come to believe that a certain level of paranoia is actually quite healthy.  The internet - and especially social media sites - is a veritable treasure trove for the security services, and others with deeply sinister intentions.

I've firmly come to believe that a certain level of paranoia is actually quite healthy.  The internet - and especially social media sites - is a veritable treasure trove for the security services, and others with deeply sinister intentions.