Digital Identity

Posted by Mike | Filed under Random

In today’s day digital age, your online identity is increasingly becoming as important as your physical identity. If you don’t realize how true this statement is, take a moment and think about how many places online you enter a username and password, rather than your given name. Because of the power of Google, there is going to be a very extensive history of everything you’ve done online, with respects to places that you have signed up for an account and places where you have posted your.

Now, proceed with caution… you may not like the results. If you really want to see an extensive history on your online activities, simply head to your nearest search engine (Google) and type in your username, and hit search. Now, you can see quite a vast history. And if you have posted comments in the past, then take a read over them… they may be amusing. I did a simple Google search on my given name, and it yielded quite a number of results (not all of them actually applied to me, but there were still quite a few). Then I did a Google search of my online username that I use everywhere, and the difference between the two was staggering.

I recently enlightened a colleague to this fact, and the reaction on his face when he saw his online history was quite amusing. What does your history look like?

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Permalink | July 27th, 2010

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