A puzzling little blog still looking for its voice, but sometimes gets lost and has trouble finding its way.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
This Is Me, at Least with a 90% Probability
I have been doing a lot of looking for myself... online. It started a few weeks ago when I submitted my address to a website. When I checked back a week or so later, the site had changed my address to an older one that no longer exists. Really, the building has been torn down and even the ZIP code is being phased out. I may have typed a digit or two off, but that cannot explain why the site reverted to an old address. Therefore, I decided to search for myself online. It took between 4-10 pages of results before I came across a page that was about me, depending upon the search engine used. Not bad for only a few months of online presence. Most of the results were about a physician who may work for the Mayo clinic. Probably not related. I even checked one of those "free" people finding sites for me. It did not find me. Not one of the results were anywhere near me. It was only when I began thinking about a topic for today's post that I realized why I couldn't be found. I,technically, have an unlisted phone number. Oh, it is in the directory, just not under my name. I never bothered to have it added or changed. On the one hand, this cuts down on any unsolicited calls as well as many attempt at identity theft. On the other hand, it makes it almost impossible for anyone who really wants or needs to find me. I had unintentionally made myself too unavailable. With all of this misinformation out there, one would either had to know some very specific things about me or be one of the few people I had given personal contact information to over the years, and then search for me using that data. A very hard challenge, but it would be one I personally would enjoy. I have actually done such searches based on little info over the years. For example, for the final challenge in a contest, I had to look through nature guides to identify the approximate species of a bird depicted on a stamp and then go online to find out which country, or former country, had issued said stamp. While I wasn't one of the winners chosen, I did manage to get the correct answer. Of course, now that I am on social media, it has become a lot easier to find me; as long as one remembers to look for me every once and awhile. That reminds me, I might have to change some of my security settings soon.
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