The last time I googled myself I was absolutely horrified to find that the first few things that popped up were my old MySpace and Xanga accounts, which I hadn't used or even thought about in years. I quickly deleted both of those accounts, hoping to get rid of all traces of my embarrassing early high school memories from the Internet. This time, I'm very relieved to see that neither of those showed up in my Google search. The first few links that came up are Facebook pages of other Alex Willigs – I had no idea my name was that common. In fact, my own Facebook page did not even show up, yet a Facebook group that I am a part of did. I’m not sure whether this has to do with my privacy settings or not. I know that I am searchable on Facebook, but I do have it set to private so that only my friends can see my page.
Most things that popped up were related to other people with the same name. However, my twitter account and old local newspaper articles from high school tennis did show up. I switched over to Google images and found that a few of my Facebook default pictures are there, but none of my tagged pictures. There were also a few pictures from tennis but for the most part, the pictures seemed to be of random people I have never seen before.
It’s kind of a relief that there are plenty of other people out there with my name because googling myself turns out to be pretty inconclusive. None of my past jobs or internships turned up and either did anything about school or where I live. I know that the Internet makes everyone searchable and you can find out some pretty invasive things about people but so far, my Google record looks pretty clean/sparse.
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