How Much Personal Information is Actually Out There?
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@johnhooks lol it's fan art by someone of Nick Offerman
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks lol it's fan art by someone of Nick Offerman
I knew it was NIck Offerman, I always just saw the tiny gravatar so I just thought it was an actual photo of Ron.
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Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.
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I am not any of these people... come on google...
Edit: I do however use that purple car for my Gravatar and SW Icons.
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No pics or links to me by searching Philip Ruff or Phil Ruff.
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Well.... 3 images on the first two lines anyway. One of em is the #foundSAM from Spiceworld selfie.
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@johnhooks said:
Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.
Or you have some weird kink with dry wall. Ewwww...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Well if you type John Hooks in google you get the CEO of Pacific Global Management. If you type jhooks, you just get hooks that screw in a wall. I guess I'm just not famous.
Or you have some weird kink with dry wall. Ewwww...
I probably could have worded that better, but I never imagined anyone would think of it that way.
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@johnhooks said:
How to know you've searched cable management in the past... I searched jhooks and all that came up were cable management hooks and associated anchors.
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I used to be near the top of a Google search on my name, but then another Jared using the handle "TheSmokingAndroid" start up all the social media stuff supporting his tech reviews.
A search on the online nickname I started using in the 1990's hits my social media.
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If I type in my most common username, it's all pictures of my old car and my motorcycle haha.
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Yea... that's scary... I got stuff going back way, way back.... I mean like back to when I still had to dial up to a BBS to get online!
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I've been blogging daily since Feb, 2000 so there is a LOT of me out there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've been blogging daily since Feb, 2000 so there is a LOT of me out there.
I've been in various forums for a long time... I found a post to a Debian thread about WordPerfect 8, lol. Right near the beginning of 2000. If I dug around, I could go back farther.
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I'm sure that I have older stuff, but that was when I was on daily.... and daily ever since.
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My most recent username: JediMasterOdd nets results (mostly from Twitter), and some of my other usernames that I have used are far too common to find me easily.
nadnerB yields a few results in a Google Image search (scrolling required). Just SW and ML though
There are a few people using my IRL name but no actual images of me show up in a Google Image search. A few avatars of mine do though.