Especially if you have an even marginally uncommon name.
I don't think that I like it one little bit that people can find out all sorts of stuff about me - where I live, where I work (seems I made it into Spoke.com's business directory), my interests, my religion, my 'causes' (from which one could likely derive something about my politics). Even the RADIO STATION I listen to (or one of them, anyway)!
And the thing is, I didn't put ANY of this out there on the web itself, except for a couple of articles that I wrote for a Catholic website about 10 years ago...and a few book and DVD/video reviews I did for Amazon.com back in the day.
You turn up at an event, you write on an email mailing list (not even a web-based one), you speak at some function or other, you review a book about Evita Peron, you work at a big company...and BOOM. There you are, all over the internet.
And it doesn't just apply to 'real names'. Usernames too yield alarming results.
And Google is FAST too - I gave someone a 'friendly reminder' of the rules on TrekBBS yesterday, and there it is Google, for the whole world to see: Bad spammer! Bad spammer!
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They certainly will have cataloged this one by tomorrow.
Have any of you guys ever done this? Googled yourself?
And if so, what did you find?