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 googled my real name and found out i'm a professional bridge player in america. More confusing is the guy with the identical name to me who live a couple of miles away and is in the same local mountain bike group as me. We confuse the hell out of each other and everyone else :)

There is a man who lives close to where I am with identical name, he also uses the same doctors surgery, he is about my age and whenever I go to the surgery or ring up they invariably say “ oh which one are you “ yes they do have to check date of birth but I think when they type my name into the computer it comes up with two that match very closely and surprises them.

Many years ago when the internet was first becoming common place, I joined various forums unrelated to autism I might add, it amazed me just how many times I had to try adding characters to my full name in order to get it accepted, “ this user name is already in use” .

That was then, I was naive using my actual full name, I wouldn’t do such a thing now, on FB I slightly changed my date of birth, and various other little adjustments, 

Years ago a comedian called Dave Gorman set himself a challenge to find people with his full name, again not so easy back then, 

He travelled far and wide to meet each one he found, it was ok to watch him researching it all, 

There is a man who lives close to where I am with identical name, he also uses the same doctors surgery, he is about my age and whenever I go to the surgery or ring up they invariably say “ oh which one are you “ yes they do have to check date of birth but I think when they type my name into the computer it comes up with two that match very closely and surprises them.

Many years ago when the internet was first becoming common place, I joined various forums unrelated to autism I might add, it amazed me just how many times I had to try adding characters to my full name in order to get it accepted, “ this user name is already in use” .

That was then, I was naive using my actual full name, I wouldn’t do such a thing now, on FB I slightly changed my date of birth, and various other little adjustments, 

Years ago a comedian called Dave Gorman set himself a challenge to find people with his full name, again not so easy back then, 

He travelled far and wide to meet each one he found, it was ok to watch him researching it all,