Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👻🩻🎥 Wednesday, July 17, 2024

TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before I became Simon, the only other person with my name killed a police officer…

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d take that to having the same name as a celebrity tbh

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m the only one in Aus who has my name. My surname is my families in Australia, so you’d be able to find my dad and uncle too.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    same

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty much absent from the internets

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My real name is out there unfortunately because I worked on a community project some years ago but you’d need specific information on what I worked on to find it.

  I hope your cat will forgive you for your transgression.

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I try to be invisible online under my real name. I mostly succeed. It helps that my name is common, so there are lots of hits and none of them are me. If I am ever suddenly a news story, the journos are going to have a hard time finding my Facebook photo (I don’t have Facebook) to steal and put on their sites. 😃

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, unfortunately there’s lots because I have a unique name and was foolish about the internet many years ago. Intrigued by the guy who has me in his thesis thanks. Not a clue who he is!

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just an old scraped practitioner profile with the attached email being my_full_name@gmail.com. I hope we get right to be forgotten laws here.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That reminds me, I once got a really strange spam email that was addressed to (my first name)@aol.com with my primary Gmail address (which doesn’t and never has had my first name even listed in the name section, let alone in the username) CC’d in. I don’t even remember what it was spamming me with, just that it was in broken English and Gmail didn’t flag it as spam. It was really odd

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• Mittens_meow@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. I regularly check as I have a unique name so anything is traceable. Socials are locked down. Linked in is up for career purposes, but still relatively locked down.

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• bull@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used that Google security function recently which goes off to see where you’re mentioned and it happily said nowhere. I have a blog out there with numerous photos of my face on it but there’s nothing linking my full name to it. I just Googled my name and found my Facebook profile though. This was using my shortened name which I generally use. Searching with my full name has nothing I can see. Weird… my Google account uses my name to post Google reviews and I’ve done a couple but they didn’t show up in a search.

  Anyways… feeling pretty ok about my online presence. I know all of my email addresses have been compromised but there isn’t much I can do about that besides keep good MFA security and spam filters on those.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used to google my name several times as a teen but not so much now (sounds like that old euphemism). I know my real name is on a couple of publicly available reports and LinkedIn. Never googled my username though, I only ever use this on reddit and Lemmy. I could do with a good purge though

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My name is quite unique, and my last job put me and my photos on some online reporting sites, so yeh if you google me you find me!

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I try not to publicly put my name anywhere I don’t have to, so my full name has no results. Baku seems to be a pretty common username, so not many personal results there, although I’ve definitely said more here/on Reddit than I should’ve. my Reddit username only has a couple of results, one from a shitty buzzfeed article that exploited my willingness to help a tourist for clicks, and the rest from dodgy reddit mirrors. And my discord username is, well, a discord username. there’s only a single result for it from outside Discord

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• melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  eh…I’m old enough that social media wasn’t really around when I was young and doing stupid things more publicly. Now, my job makes me pretty public anyway, and there are very, very few people in the world with my exact name, so if you google it, only a few of us appear and the most public one is me. All professional pages, though.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep. Mostly comes up with product reviews and a few letters to the editor.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been fairly vicious since the early days so the only thing that shows up that is actually me is an old ABN record. Unique name combination too (Jewish first name + scottish surname and a rare scottish surname at that)

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• Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never done it but just did for shits and giggles. I wouldn’t call my name common, but there are social media profiles with the same name but not me. And my name twin is also a nurse but in the UK by the looks of it. Weird.

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