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There's a guy with my name, roughly the same age as me, from the same hometown who's a recently paroled pedophile. All the top results when you search my name a
by eigenvector 8y ago
There's a guy with my name, roughly the same age as me, from the same hometown who's a recently paroled pedophile. All the top results when you search my name are about him.
So yeah, I'm not enthusiastic about Googling every candidate.
- drdeadringer 8y agoAlternatively, my "Google Twin" is literally a rock star. Obviously we are quite different people by look and by crook, but this is a coin with at least two sides.
- jpindar 8y agoThat's all the more reason why you should have a web presence!
- FLUX-YOU 8y agoNot everyone can have that, esp. people with a history of stalkers or abusive friends/family.
- stordoff 8y agoI recently found out there's not only with the same name as me (it's a fairly unusual name--I haven't previously heard it outside of my family), but also went to my university. It would be very easy to get us confused.
- erichurkman 8y agoI took my partner's last name when we got married so I no longer shared a name with murderers, drug dealers, a corrupt politician. Now I share a name with a farmer, two people in the Netherlands, and a hobbyist jeweler. Much better.