Your name-what others look like

[bmccasland]

The *other me* owns a winery in California. I keep wondering if she'd share?

[Eden]

Good grief.... my fictional alter ego has a MySpace page....

A search of my name these days mainly turns up me - mostly race results and credits in research papers (I'm a medical photographer/graphic designer) and my fun fictional friend who has torrid love affairs with FBI agents...

There's a few others, mostly kids or teenagers it seems. There used to be a horse breeder - but she's dropped out of sight.

[VeloVT]

Ugh. If you google my name... there is an internet porn star with the same name. And no, it is NOT me. She looks nothing like me, so if you met me you would know, but I definitely worry about potential employers. I find it disturbing, because some of the search results are really nasty (and that's just the textual metadata that shows up in the search, not whatever you see if you follow the link).

I can't imagine why she chose my name. It's a completely boring, waspy name that doesn't sound sexy or porn-starish at all.

Am I the only one with this problem?

[Crankin]

OK, I just googled my name... most of the posts are "trying to find -----?" for people looking for me.
But, quite disturbingly, there is a huge record of my posts here on TE. I changed my screen name from my real name about 3 years ago, but the posts are current ones . They are from a place called Board Tracker. Lots of graphs of how much I post, as well as my posts. I am not sure how they connected my name to Crankin, as all of my TE posts now show up as Crankin, even ones from when I was using my real name.
There's a couple of things on the Google list which are announcements of my son's promotions in the military that I put in the Boston Globe, as well as a couple of posts I wrote on the middle-lit list serve for English teachers about ten years ago. That's it. Definitely no one else with my name.

[Catrin]

I am the only person with my name that I've ever found on the internet. Even my last name is so unusual that an internet search just on that alone only brings up <30 people. No fictional characters, no porn stars (thankfully), just me. Which is why my Facebook page is the only place where I use my real name and that took some consideration.

I did check Board Tracker after Crankin's post and it has no record of my real name Thankfully, Catrin is simply a Welsh variation of Catherine and there are a lot of people out there using it.

Crankin - that is just spooky! I wonder how their system figured out that Crankin = <your real name>?

[Crankin]

Apparently, board tracker is an application that businesses use to see who is posting/buying stuff. When I clicked on "profile" on my board tracker page, it linked to Crankin's profile on TE (thankfully, I have nothing on there except my town), but the page is in my real name.
Susan? Does TE use this? Help!