I've Googled myself from time to time. It's because I've wanted to keep up with what Google will tell about me for other people. I've always known that everything you post and publish to anywhere in Internet, will remain and may come up later. That's why I've never published anything, which would embarrass or humiliate me or my relatives or friends. At least I think and hope so.
I'm from that generation, whom has kinda grown up together with the Internet and parts of social media, so I'm sure that there has been some mistakes for all of us but first (and worst) thing I can think of, are this poor quality webcam pictures, which I published to this first "social media" service, picture gallery called ii2 when I was about 11 years old. Haha, anyone who remembers that? My generation has been almost the first ones to discover the world of Internet and there has been certain things, which everyone has been using at least couple times, like Arctic.net, Habbo, ii2, IRC-Galleria etc. and we've been learning together to use and benefit from Internet. Nowadays it's quite much more, than it was back then and I think that understanding, that EVERYTHING what you publish anywhere (including Facebook, Instagram, ask.fm etc.) will not disappear and it may meet up with you, even if you try to remove it and wouldn't want to see it ever again. Also I think that kids nowadays won't think that also your future boss and co-workers could find everything about you.
So what I'm getting, when I Google myself? First there's my Facebook profile and some posts, I've published there. Nothing special with those. Then there's some information about my titles and doings with my hobby, basketball. And I'm also doing some kind of genealogy sometimes, so Google shows my MyHeritage-site. Also some really old athletics results are there, they've been published on the newspaper and are now to be found from Internet too.
When examining what pictures Google shows, there's also really nothing special. One picture about my face and the rest of them are pictures taken by me, which is quite a lot. There's pictures concerning to basketball and some old pictures concerning to horses. There's no videos to be found under my name. I think that's simply because I've never published any videos.
All in all, I'm quite happy what Google shows about me. There's real information about me and nothing embarrassing or false information. I'm pleased with that and I'd like to keep it what way. Only thing I'm maybe little bit uncomfortable with, is that my phone number is also to be found from there. But it has to be founded from my hobby's website, because my position, so I can't complain about that. Everything else is just fine and I think that many people would find much more about themselves by Googling.
Digital identity is formed with all, what you post and publish to Internet. But as seen with the celebrities, you can also manipulate information and pictures, so every time the digital identity is not truthful. You can manipulate information by publishing something, for example by editing one's Wikipedia site. Many people consider Wikipedia as a reliable and truthful source of information, but to be true, it's not. Everyone can edit these pages in Wikipedia and change the information for what they'll like. For example when Finland lost ice hockey world championship, there was this page about silver, which was edited to fit to Finland's medal. And when talking about celebrities, there's many different news sites, which will have their own opinions and releases, and all of them will change, what is being showed about celebrities when Googling them. Also, it will change accordingly to popularity of pages and news. It's quite awful, what you can find about celebrities from the Internet. I mean that there could be ALL about their lives and they can't control, what is being written and published about them.
If there's no information online or any social media services about somebody, I think that person would live very secret life and nowadays it also means, that he/she is not using any social medias. If you're using some of them, Google surely would know about that and show them to the searcher. On the assignment there was this question: "should there be any information (about a political, CEO or communication professional)?". Yes is my answer, because nowadays almost everyone is using some of social medias and being out there, so it sounds really odd that there's no information about somebody. For example speaking about politicians, Google could bring them closer to ordinary people by telling us at least something about one's life. It's almost bad thing, if there's no information about politician because then people might think that there's something to hide and he/she is not a trustworthy person.
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