<p>muffinking, what's your xanga? i want to add you.</p>
<p>I used to have a cool public blog, then I decided to make everything private.</p>
<p>This is kind of scary. I do use a separate email for myspace/xanga/CC, but the one I gave to colleges can be traced to my LJ if they googled it. Luckily it's cool, and a few classmates who stumbled into it told me later that they read all the posts and liked it :-]</p>
<p>I just googled myself too. </p>
<p>There are like 50 different research papers attirubuted to "me"....</p>
<p>Hahaha, i <3 with the same name as me.</p>
<p>Just googled myself as well. My myspace shows up (but only recently), and my deviantart account is on the third page or so, but the rest are just papers by people with the same name.</p>
<p>Ahhh! My xanga is the 5th search result when I google my name!</p>
<p>My personal website doesn't show up though. Whoo! I'll post it here though so I can get more hits. <a href="http://coreyiscold.com%5B/url%5D">http://coreyiscold.com</a></p>
<p>Do you guys think I should making my LJ entries public?</p>
<p>I dont' feel comfortable doing so.</p>
<p>Corey, we should be friends. I totally agree with</p>
<p>"My parents are, for lack of better wording, delusional. Divorced, Depressed, and in their fourties. My dad has remarried the worlds most useless human being..."</p>
<p>That's depressing. Why base a friendship on such a thing?</p>
<p>Somepeople have the knack of distorting an originally pure intention.</p>
<p>lol, i searched my name on google, and i got 10 links, 6 of which were all about ME (others being my dad and cousin), which is freaky, but its even weirder that on google images i got a pic of my dad and one of my cousin...thats what you get for being indian i geuss (unless ur like a patel or shah)</p>
<p>eh nothing to "worry" about anyway, since i dont have nything on the internet thats "obscene" and any of my beliefs that i post here im ready to defend</p>
<p>I just google-imaged myself. for some reason it's all very blah looking men with my name, lol. but one is kind of cute :)</p>
<p>Haha, google image search for my names turns up like 20 pictures of a cute baby with my name, plus some guy with my name at the university of Hawaii.</p>
<p>luckily i didnt find anything when i searched my name or email.</p>
<p>My two cents...most big schools don't have time to google you. However, if you claim to be a contributor to something online, they might check it out. You better not have over fluffed yourself!</p>
<p>There was an article a while back about students making up bogus Facebook accounts for professors and administrators. After that, I think the adults started checking out those sites, if only to claim their name as their own.</p>
<p>I'm part of the generation that didn't grow up with the internet and while I'm extremely comfortable with message boards and sites like MySpace, I still have "a filter" that I think is missing from today's students. </p>
<p>Don't put something on the internet that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper.</p>
<p>EDIT: The drinking references fly right by me these days (you're still foolish to post about that sort of thing). What I'm EXTREMELY shocked by are the references to pot, Adderall and other drugs. If you run a red light, do you carry a sign that says "I run red lights"? NO. Don't post about this stuff. It does not make you cool. It does not make you interesting.</p>
<p>I googled my name.</p>
<p>I got my Science Olympiad results and my school's honor roll.</p>
<p>I win.</p>
<p>"I googled my name.</p>
<p>I got my Science Olympiad results and my school's honor roll.</p>
<p>I win."</p>
<p>Lol...</p>
<p>i googled my online name....</p>
<p>and the search engine produced a modeling agency. bleh.</p>
<p>If an adcom is on the fence about a candidate, they will seek out more information on the candidate, whether through the GC at the high school or via the Internet. Everything, and I mean everything, on the Internet is PUBLIC information -- and anyone who wants to can get access to it. As an early poster on this thread remarked, it's unfair because it violates privacy. There is no right to privacy. It is not guaranteed by the Constitution or any other legal document. All applicants should be very careful if there are things "out there" that they wouldn't want anyone to see, especially compromising pictures or emails (IMs, etc) what could give an adcom the reason it needs to say NO.</p>
<p>collegeparent, i searched my name and found "research professor at XXXX..."(bleh) what if adcom can't find anything about me???</p>
<p>i googled for my name + town name and I came up with a bunch of stuff about me! (good stuff like awards and race results and activities I did)</p>
<p>i try to keep my online stuff "private" with no links to myself or names or e-mail... it can be done</p>