The title in and of itself should give something away. I spent the first half of my life without having heard the word google, so it still sounds funny to me.
Anyway, as an assignment for a course I am teaching, I asked the students to google themselves and write about the results. It was so much fun reading about their experiences, that I thought I should try it too.
I learned a few things from this:
- Google really likes my sister’s wedding page for some reason.
- There’s some old guy who wears awesome outfits who is also named Tom Tylee.
- Careful what you pin to Pinterest, or make it private, or risk sharing your styling aspirations with the world.
There is also a Tom Tylee on Facebook who lives in England, and is quite the partier. I hope no potential employers ever saw his photos of drinking pints and being a lad and thought, “Whoa, can’t hire that Tom-guy. He’s crazy.”
I haven’t been on social media much, and keep meaning to go through and make everything private, but I just can’t seem to get a round to it. Maybe now I can. At least on pinterest. Nobody needs to know that I aspire to be an academic hipster.
Techno Tom 