Google betrays us all, episode 114
Apr. 21st, 2009 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brennaTwo Things from MetaFilter Today:
1. Google now offers 'Profiles'. They are for showing up when people Google your name (if you're one of the top four people with that name-- apparently it only shows four?).
Guys this is bad. :( Google results should remain pure. In MY DAY, if you did something embarrassing and it got online, you learned to live with it, whether you were a regular person or a group of people or a corporation or even a government. You learned, and sometimes even chose to conduct yourself accordingly, that you could be Googled, and that no special weight would be given to what you personally had to say about yourself. I don't care how handy or harmless this thing seems-- it's in the wrong spirit. Even though they're at the bottom of the page, and all the same results still show up, play it backwards and you hear a voice heralding the return of the Official Version. Dear Google: stop it, and quit turning the internet into not the internet.
2. A cool story about a monument in Georgia I did not know existed. Just the one link, so I went straight to it.
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Okay, listen up, kids, I have a rule for you. Any place with enough doors in it is bound-- as in, by Fate-- to have one left unlocked somewhere after hours. If you doubt this, just think of how lazy and unconscientious you are, and multiply that by however many people work there. This rule was proven yet again by me at the Christian academy by my apartment, after playing on some swings (which is all I went there for originally) and wandering around getting the bug. In the end it was just... schoolish, and I would have spent my time better by just sitting and reading the copy of The Hobbit that some kid had on top of their locker, like I thought about doing. But it was neat to smell crayons and stuff again.
1. Google now offers 'Profiles'. They are for showing up when people Google your name (if you're one of the top four people with that name-- apparently it only shows four?).
Guys this is bad. :( Google results should remain pure. In MY DAY, if you did something embarrassing and it got online, you learned to live with it, whether you were a regular person or a group of people or a corporation or even a government. You learned, and sometimes even chose to conduct yourself accordingly, that you could be Googled, and that no special weight would be given to what you personally had to say about yourself. I don't care how handy or harmless this thing seems-- it's in the wrong spirit. Even though they're at the bottom of the page, and all the same results still show up, play it backwards and you hear a voice heralding the return of the Official Version. Dear Google: stop it, and quit turning the internet into not the internet.
2. A cool story about a monument in Georgia I did not know existed. Just the one link, so I went straight to it.
----
Okay, listen up, kids, I have a rule for you. Any place with enough doors in it is bound-- as in, by Fate-- to have one left unlocked somewhere after hours. If you doubt this, just think of how lazy and unconscientious you are, and multiply that by however many people work there. This rule was proven yet again by me at the Christian academy by my apartment, after playing on some swings (which is all I went there for originally) and wandering around getting the bug. In the end it was just... schoolish, and I would have spent my time better by just sitting and reading the copy of The Hobbit that some kid had on top of their locker, like I thought about doing. But it was neat to smell crayons and stuff again.
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Date: 2009-04-22 03:23 pm (UTC)it really amazes me how different the internet is now than back in 1997, when I made my first online journal and disclosed way too much identifying information for the world to see. now I'm afraid to post almost anything. :\