How Do You Ungoogle Yourself?
Do unflattering photos or embarrassing blog postings pop up when someone Googles your name? Or are you concerned about your privacy in this new digital age? With Google’s excellent indexing of the Internet, the reality is that friends, family members and employers can find out more information about you than you potentially want them to, just by “Googling” your full name. Here are a few ways of getting out of this situation. • Stop using your full name. The best way to “ungoogle” yourself is to not offer your full name or abbreviate your last name when signing up for online accounts, posting from your blog, or attaching yourself to any content that’s published on the Internet. You can also create an online pen name or a screen name to go by. • Google yourself to find out what other people are seeing when they search your name. If you have a common name, it’s possible that you’ll be buried in the search results with all the other “Sarah Smiths” or “Chris Johnsons” in the world. Don’t fo
