Monday, December 17, 2007

Do you google or run background checks on yourself?


With all the modern technology available i feel this is a legitimate question.

This week alone i have googled myself at least 5 times, i don't know why, i guess if there is some sort of government plan or conspiracy out to get me i want to be one of the first to know. Well i know thats ridiculous, but you can never really tell noadays, i personally know of many reasons why one would want to google themselfs. That sound like a bronx salute, "yea fella go google yourself."

I know this one girl who caught her boyfriend sleeping with her best friend. She put his picture up on a bunch of local and national gay forums and dating websites. She even set up profiles and made contact information using his real address and phone number. Now thats a first rate case of someone who should have googled them self. He could have tracked down the websites and squashed his profiles before he won "best gay rookie of the year" which my friend nominated him for. He may have deserved itbut either way it was funny as hell.

I also know a guy who use to find a particular phone number on his girlfriends cell phone. When he asked her who was the number? she always made up a story or denied ever recieving or making the phone call. When he tried to answer it they always hung up. Well this guy gets sick of this a bit before he would have gone mental and signs up for a popular background check service. He punches in the number and finds an address a employment location and a bunch of other personal information. This guy cruises by the address but never sees his girlfriends car. One day this guy (who is a geek) looks up the address on google earth (free google survielance software)and the flyover picture of the house shows his wifes car in the driveway. This guy tries to confront her and she continued to lie until he just made a plan and set in front of the guys house until his girlfriend showed up. He threw her clothes and stuff on the mans porch and called the guys wife (yea wife)and she showed up a bit later. He learned all this stuff from public records. This is a completely different world we live in today.

So to answer the question, hell yea i google myself and run background checks onme and anyone else i can think of.

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