As far as I know there's only one other Alex Bobbs on the internet. I've google-stalked him about once a year for a long time, until we met on facebook and I realized that he was also google-stalking me. Crazy.
There are only one or two others of me, but the most common other hit is a freelance journalist single mother from the Hague, which has almost caused some very bad confusion for my family trying to find my Amazon wishlist.
By "could easily find/contact", people could at least email me (the hit is my senior thesis page -- I did make it, but I don't consider it my personal page).
Also, while googling myself to find out if this was still the case, I found my entry in the department's grad society listings, which has maybe my favorite anti-spam-crawler email obfuscation evar: [me].UnsolicitedPapersThatYouCantPublish - At - AreSpamIfSentToPeopleYouDontKnow394. [school].edu.
The first hit for me is the school district of Philadelphia website which lists the dates of all new hire teachers when the School Reform Commission (Board of Education) authorizes their hiring formally. So, my first and last name, job title (teacher), SCHOOL, and effective date are all posted publically.
It is kind of disconcerting that people can search my name and find out where I physically spend at least 1302 hours/year.
Apparently the top hit for my name is now my Amazon profile.
Also, in figuring this out, I know why someone recently dug up a positively ancient email address for me. I can't tell whether the email in question makes me look like a fifteen-year-old moron or not, but at least I was a fairly erudite fifteen-year-old moron ...
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Also, while googling myself to find out if this was still the case, I found my entry in the department's grad society listings, which has maybe my favorite anti-spam-crawler email obfuscation evar: [me].UnsolicitedPapersThatYouCantPublish - At - AreSpamIfSentToPeopleYouDontKnow394. [school].edu.
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It is kind of disconcerting that people can search my name and find out where I physically spend at least 1302 hours/year.
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Also, in figuring this out, I know why someone recently dug up a positively ancient email address for me. I can't tell whether the email in question makes me look like a fifteen-year-old moron or not, but at least I was a fairly erudite fifteen-year-old moron ...
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