August 6, 2008


Dear Clusterflock,

How many times do you Google yourself each day? (I am personally, disturbingly way too obsessive about this and do it too many times to mention here).

posted by Brandon Hobson in dear clusterflock, humans, observations, psychology, self-help 

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10 Responses to “Dear Clusterflock,”

  1. Mike Dresser on August 6th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    I do from time to time, but I’ve got plenty of internet chaff hiding me from searchers: specifically, a midwestern talk show host and a wine writer for the Baltimore Sun. And there’s an IT guy who posts on a lot of tech boards. It would be fun to be the top search result, but relative anonymity has its perks as well.

  2. Andrew Simone on August 6th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Lord knows I have done it, but probably not much more than once a month or so.

    You do know, Brandon, you can have google send you new information on your name (or anything for that matter) via email as well, right?

  3. Brandon Hobson on August 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    i didn’t know that, but I’ll sign up. I’m not sure it will help me stop, though.

  4. Deron Bauman on August 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    brandon hobson

  5. Raynor on August 7th, 2008 at 7:07 am

    in all honesty, i have never googled myself. i will do it now and report back.

  6. Raynor on August 7th, 2008 at 7:13 am

    whoa, it looks like my last name has a spanish homonym which means, “they win.” i guess that’s something.*

    *note: i am not spanish.

  7. Amy Mabli on August 7th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Brandon, you do that too often and you’ll go blind. I’ve personally never done it, but I suspect that others have done it with me in mind.

  8. Amanda Mae Meyncke on August 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    I do it whenever I start getting too many weird visits to my blog, to make sure none of my well-meaning friends have published my physical address. After I started writing for filmcom, I started seeing weird searches pop up.

    Other than that, I’m the only Amanda Meyncke in the world. “In truth, it’s a lonely life…”

  9. Daryl Scroggins on August 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Different people have better or worse reasons for doing this it seems. I think many writers, for instance, will find it very useful to do this often, since it’s often the best way to hear about reviews of work or comments on it. And, if you enter literary contests regularly, you will often hear of results in this way long before being otherwise notified. I suppose this is true for artists of all sorts.

  10. Brandon Hobson on August 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Amy,
    Yes, we have done it with you in mind.

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