Monday, May 21st, 2007 Archives

I was surprised today to learn that a colleague of mine knew about this blog. I don’t necessarily hide it from co-workers (it is the internet after all and anyone can see whatever I write if they want), but as it is quite personal content you really have to search to get to it. Or so I thought. Now that I’ve been writing long enough and because I have registered the name “globalflight” in a number of other places, it is quite easy to find my entire presence on the web. Especially if you know my last name, which I purposely don’t post here, this site is the number one hit on Google – i.e. anyone can find it who knows me with about 2 seconds of effort. I know by being out on the internet I choose to expose myself, or at least part of myself, to the world, but it is really so easy now to find out a lot of someone you know with just a click of the button. Have you Googled yourself (or one of your friends) lately?