So I googled myself

[NightWatcher]

And there is a guy with my exact same name who's doing a lot better with it than I am. He's a high power, high dollar attorney in a big city. It's kind of a bummer that I'm not the best me that there is.

When you google yourself do you actually find anything good about yourself, or is there another you who is doing better than you are?

[Avalux]

1. Just because he's a high power, high dollar attorney doesn't mean he's better.

He might be a right wing conservative asshole. You are you - don't compare yourself to a name on a computer of a guy you've never met.

[steve2470]

18. amen

If you're happy, that's good enough.

[Jenoch]

2. I have Goggled myself.

I'm the only me there is. In fact every single person who comes up when Goggling my surname is a descendent of my grandfather (spouses too) or his brother.

[JimDandy]

15. Same here, so best or not I'm all there is. n/t

[flying rabbit]

3. I get a whole bunch of realtors.

Maybe I missed my calling.

[greendog]

4. There are around 50 guys out there with my name.

One is a fairly successful professional hockey player. Another is a rather annoying wanna-be conservative pundit in Canada. And a couple are Clergymen.

[progressoid]

5. If you don't live alone, you should lock the door before googling yourself.

To save embarrassment.

[NightWatcher]

6. Once I googled myspace and it made me scream "Yahoo!"

But I'm feeling much better now.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Well, I found out I died in 1979...

but then I died again in 2010. Both times I was in my 80's, so maybe that's not so bad, except that I died gain two years ago when a judge set the date.

[csziggy]

8. The other me is a travel writer - and I am jealous

She gets to travel all over the world and writes books about her trips. Apparently she's pretty well known - I've had people ask if I am her.

While I like the idea of traveling, I don't actually enjoy doing it. Maybe I should travel vicariously by reading my other me's books?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

9. I giggityed myself

[IMG][/IMG]

Alright!

[MrScorpio]

10. There's only one me...

I'm the best there is and I know it.

[mrmpa]

11. There are 100 people............

in the US & Canada with my name + 37 in the United Kingdom.

[hollysmom]

12. there are 2 people with the name I am using, no one but me with my birth name

On of the people with my married name is a young basket ball player, she is very good and is looking to make it a career
But the other thing that shows up is a quote I made on a message board that was taken out of time and context and posted around the world to show how foolish some women are. I was speaking to someone I knew well on that board that was making a fantasy comment and I basically told them we heard it already, enough stop with posting that same thing - but it came out like I thought it was horrible for anyone to post that idea. Every time I see it I want the rip out the throat of the woman who took it out of context and got her article posted every where with my board name on it, the one that I use on most boards.- why should someone get success while making me look foolish. This was the only time I was quoted - why does it have to be this???? Sometimes I hate the media.

[lovemydog]

13. Please don't google the serial killer apprehended today, named Holly Smom

Just kidding!

[hollysmom]

14. What a joker.

[davidpdx]

16. My name is pretty common

Even found a few people with the same first, middle, and last name.

Here is the really freaky shit. After my parents divorced, my dad then married a woman with the same first and last name as my mom only her (his second wife) middle name had an "e" on the end. So essentially they had almost identical names. It turns out years later she ran a credit report and for some reason my name and my brother's name were on it even though we weren't her children.

[GreenEyedLefty]

17. I found at least 4 people with the same name as mine.

Some here, some in Germany. I thought my name was not especially common. It's kind of funny and surreal.

[Xyzse]

20. Don't want to...

Besides, I am the only person of my name in the world that I know.

[pipi_k]

21. Hah!

There are 8 of me that show up on a Google White Pages search.

The real me lives in Mass. It gives the names of two people I know (which I do)


The other "me" lives in Las Vegas. It gives the name of one of those two people I know in Mass, PLUS it gives Mr Pipi's name (which doesn't show up on the REAL me's mini profile).

I've never been to Las Vegas, ever.


Oh, and there's another me on Facebook, too, and another Google link shows images associated with my name.

There are a ton of photos there, and three of them are actually mine, taken from Facebook. Luckily, they're not personal. Just some closeup photos of a rosebud, some honeysuckle, and a frog in my pond.

[LynneSin]

22. So you're the little Leibowski to this person's Big Leibowski

[NightWatcher]

23. I'm not the Dude man, but I do sip alcohol throughout the day

and have no visible source of income
I do have a rug that really holds the place together, however.

[Ohio Joe]

24. Could be worse...

My name brings up pages and pages of a mediocre governor almost no one has ever heard of and who has been dead 100 years... That and a fundy southern pastor... "I" don't show up for almost 100 pages... Sheesh.

[elleng]

25. There are lots of us,

many doctors and others of some renown.

[hobbit709]

26. Lots of hits but none of them me-at least not on the first 5 pages.

At one time there were 14 people with my name listed in the Austin phone book-not a one was me.

[arcane1]

27. I googled my DU username and found it most unoriginal

Which is funny because when I first came up with it, for some ancient now-forgotten site, I added the "1" because "arcane" was taken. So I lack originality in user names, but for my real name only 4 results come up. One of those results has all of my mother's info but it's attributed to my name. Go figure

[rrneck]

28. No sex threads. nt