Internet Chatter is Now Serious Life Changing Important

[Artimus Gigan]

Apparently if you have accounts under your real name at sites like Facebook or Myspace, things like employers/colleges/internships are now looking at sites like those to do personal background checks on people who submit applications for acceptance.

So yeah, stupids posts and pictures must be done in secret under an alias, because if you type in your real name just once on the internet, Google will find it in an instant.

[solarflere]

Go ahead, google my username. You will never never conect my username to my real name. infact, you will never find my real name online. I am very carefull about these things. I got about three different Aliases online. Not one is traceble to me.

[Artimus Gigan]

Go ahead, google my username. You will never never conect my username to my real name. infact, you will never find my real name online. I am very carefull about these things. I got about three different Aliases online. Not one is traceble to me.

same here apparently

[90'sCartoonMan]

Crap, I put a link to my LiveJournal on my Face Book (as well as on TZ). I should probably friend lock it before my next interview. I say some pretty stupid things there...

[solarflere]

Crap, I put a link to my LiveJournal on my Face Book (as well as on TZ). I should probably friend lock it before my next interview. I say some pretty stupid things there...

Just so you know, Google indexed the entire WWW, so even if the webiste goes down or gets changed, you can view googles cached site, they do this avery week or so. So even if you lets say locked it now, It will still be able to be viewed about two weeks after.

[Roman Legion]

Just so you know, Google indexed the entire WWW...

Well, all of the static parts, anyway.

--Romey

[solarflere]

Well, all of the static parts, anyway.

--Romey

Try searching TZ on google, or cross refrense your username and TZ, you will find so many indexed sites its scary.

[Delthayre]

There isn't too much under my real name, but it isn't too hard to link Paul Brömmer with Delthayre, which gives you a considerable amount of material.

This could actually hurt me since I've done a lot of talk about politics and if I ever try to run for office, all anyone has to do is pull up one of my posts where I profess my atheism and my candidacy is down for the count.

I haven't a Live Journal (just a Xanga that I use as a creative graveyard now and then) or a MySpace account, so those won't come up, but I've put plenty of words on the internet in not terribly hard to find places.

[Zubby]

This could actually hurt me since I've done a lot of talk about politics and if I ever try to run for office, all anyone has to do is pull up one of my posts where I profess my atheism and my candidacy is down for the count.

Consider yourself lucky. I can't imagine a worse fate than being a politician. Should I ever try to run for public office, I hope that people will make an issue out of my atheism, my having admitted to using marijuana and my homosexuality!

[solarflere]

You two realize that you only making it worse with these posts right?

[Roman Legion]

Try searching TZ on google, or cross refrense your username and TZ, you will find so many indexed sites its scary.

I've done that plenty of times before, just for fun. I'm actually surprised at how little is turned up. Even including the "omitted results," there's nothing there that I wouldn't expect to be there... really, I'm disappointed.

--Romey

[solarflere]

I've done that plenty of times before, just for fun. I'm actually surprised at how little is turned up. Even including the "omitted results," there's nothing there that I wouldn't expect to be there... really, I'm disappointed.

--Romey

Try searching my name, that should give you pleanty.

[Peter Paltridge]

My name is on my website, but I WANT employers to see that. I don't have any weird blog where I write hysterical sobbing rants of insanity, and I've never posted my real name on a message board.

[Captain Harlock]

A friend of mine applied for a job at a local high school. They checked his myspace (as told to him by one of his friends that looks over applications) and saw some pretty NSFW kinda material. Needless to say, he didn't get the job.

[Kury Wagner]

Yeah, that's funny stuff there. Makes ya want to watch what exactly you post on your Myspace. Haha.

There was a news story this summer about a kid at a highschool near here who got kicked off of his football team or some sportyness, because he had pictures of him smoking and/or drinking on his Myspace. I was like "BURN! That's why you don't take pictures, *****!"

I have a fairly uncommon surname, so I rarely use my real one. I've Googled myself many times before (yes, I am aware of how deliciously dirty that sounds) and there's only one thing that's actually me. Which was from years ago when I was looking into my family tree and signed a guestbook.

[The_NewCatwoman]

I saw a sliver of that report on ABC News last night around two or so in the morning. Thanks for explaining, all I heard was, "...pretty much, if you don't want your parents to see it, don't post it." Rough quote though.

Goes to check her MySpace,

tNC

[Karl Olson]

I'm in trouble: www.karlrolson.com www.myspace.com/karlrolson http://karlrolson.livejournal.com

On the other hand, because I use my real name here, it makes it easier to use moderation and reporter work on ToonZone.net on a resume, which I can do interestingly enough (thanks Admins.) It also means that I get quoted in press releases and on the back of dvd boxes by name too. Being secretive on the internet is essential, unless you're looking for notoriety.

[Tenku]

Meh, my Myspace isn't even close to NFSW. Never will, because I hardly visit there. So there.

[Space Chief]

Go ahead, google my username. You will never never conect my username to my real name. infact, you will never find my real name online. I am very carefull about these things. I got about three different Aliases online. Not one is traceble to me.

I, however, go by Space Chief, and Space Chief alone.

And if you Google me, all you'll get is Russian Space Agency Chiefs talking about the Mars mission.

[solarflere]

I, however, go by Space Chief, and Space Chief alone.

And if you Google me, all you'll get is Russian Space Agency Chiefs talking about the Mars mission.

Thats because you are not participating in a lot of other forums and other discusion groups.
As for me, Solarflere, is my social name (ie, forums IM's groups etc.)
I have another one like that, and then, I have my Hack name, which under no circumstances must not be trased to Solarflere, my real name or any other identity I assume online. That name is only known no others like me in that industry.