Avatars, online personas and suchlike

[sgtiger]

When I've googled my name, I didn't find anything about me. Surprisingly, I'm not the only one with my name in the U.S. though.

[HappyAnika]

Googling my maiden name comes up with a few things about me, mostly academic. Googling my married name comes up with nothing about me in the first 10 pages, all other people with the same name. I had a very unique maiden name, not so unique married name (and it's only two letters off from a very, very, very famous actress, so Google asks "Did you mean blank blank?").

I'm cautious with my real name, address, date of birth, place of employment, for stalking/ ID theft purposes. Personal stuff I'm careful of in terms of prospective employers. Googling potential job candidates is becoming very common, and I don't want anything on the web that could be construed as a negative against me when job searching.