Just a wee bit spooky
I got an email from my 13 year old nephew last night. Not odd in and of itself except that it came to an email address at Gmail I have created as a professional front for my new MSW career, an email I haven't told anyone about. I'm assuming he was able to do a search on my name at Google and find the email address. He's 13 and he's that Net savvy. <sigh>
I had someone else recently find me by looking up whois info for a domain where my name is deliberately, completely absent from everything else to do with that domain. I guess I should fix that. It's not that I mind people finding me. I had a way to contact me there, but I've recently learned that the privacy service I was using bailed on me. It's just a bit disturbing how easy it is for people to find you if they know what they are doing.
Doing a Google search on my name pulls up several references which is also oddly discomfiting. I suppose I should be surprised that after 12+ years of working with the Net, there are only about a dozen Google references to my name.