Googleability

After googling my name, I discover that according to Google I am the only Sheila Waslawski in this world. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have no Google doppelganger. However, this means that almost all of the Google results pertained to activities I specifically partook in. The results included newspaper articles pertaining to sports and academics throughout high school, math challenges, and athletic statistics and awards. Due to my privacy settings on Facebook, the only social network that appeared was Twitter. After searching under Google images, the only photographs that pertained to me were those of math equations that I solved in high school (lame) and a soccer ball that linked to a website in which my name was included. Overall I was moderately googleable.

In my opinion being googleable has both constructive and negative effects. Being googleable allows companies to have a quick overview of the awards and honors one may have received; but this also means that the same possible job prospects may view information that one may not have believed to be public. Social-networks are where this primarily comes into play. Companies are known to view Facebook pages of employee prospects and not only judge their information, but their friends’ information as well. Not only is one accountable for his or her information on the Internet, but also the friends he or she is depicted to be associated with. One now has to treat any piece of information he or she places on the Internet as being under the public eye.