LEARNING COMMUNITY 13

     I have an extremely traceable online identity. When I google myself, I am listed on the first entry. In google, when you type in “Zachary Triano”, I am the first entry listed and it is my facebook page. The second result refers to a friend I have added on facebook, but it lists that I have her listed as a friend. The third result is a post I made on my history blog. The forth result is a post on the FRO blog. The fifth and final google result that refers to me is a college now award that I received in high school. While searching I also discovered that google lists facebook groups that I have joined, on page two. One result that does not refer to me is a Zachary Triano who got arrested for reckless driving in North Hampton. Another result that does not refer to me, nor does it include me, is a listing of all the Zachary Triano’s in the US, of which it lists 6 people, and I am not one of them. When I look at pictures using Zachary Triano, one picture of me, posted on my mom’s facebook page appears.

     When I google myself using Baruch, multiple blog posts I have made for my classes appear in the entire first page of the google searches. After that first page, I am no longer seeing any more “Zachary Triano’s”, but the president Zachary Taylor, and multiple times I am seeing a Jay Triano as well as multiple listings for Baruch College.

     When I google myself using Murrow, which is my old high school, I find the same college now arawd I received, as well as a few groups I have joined on facebook, but everything else does not refer to me. There are no other Zachary Triano’s when using these terms. There is a Zachary T. Murrow and a Zachary Randolph. Just out of curiosity, I googled some friends of mine and some of them contained similar results that I did; however, some of my friends that I entered, did not come up at all, while others came up, but it wasn’t actually them.

     I am found on google more times when entered with Baruch, however, all of those entries are based on my blog posts. The results are more scattered around different spectrums when I enter my name, because I see a few blog posts, awards and facebook. I invite you all to try this fun experiment and let me know if you have such a traceable identity as I do. I think that it is a very scary thing that we can see other people on google so easily. What do you all think of this?