Monday, October 22, 2012

On Googling myself

I can already tell that I have absolutely no web identity as of yet. When I googled the name Nora Castro, all I saw were links to a Nora Castro in Puerto Rico and a 1994 graduate student from Thomas Jefferson High School. Then I tried including my middle name, Lorena. But when I googled Nora Lorena Castro, I was directed to various Nora Lorena Castros on Facebook and to various directories on where I can find Nora Lorena Castro's address and contact information. I then decided to google Nora Lorena, and voila! I finally found myself. One little link. Right underneath it I saw the words, follow Nora Lorena Martinez on twitter, which brought a tiny smile to my face because Martinez is my boyfriend's last name. We had just held a discussion the night before on whether I would take his last name when we got married or whether I will remain Castro. Being the typical Hispanic macho man, I of course said I'd change my name. After seeing Nora Lorena Martinez's twitter account, I decided to google nlorena_2003, which is the username I use for almost all the online services that I am a part of. I was expecting to find something on my yahoo e-mail account, or my facebook account, or even my SDSU information, but instead I found this: storify.com/nlorena_2003/tribes A few weeks ago, my Technology teacher asked us to storify a book we had read individually titled Tribes, it was the only thing that showed up when I googled myself. This only tells me that I am obviously a visitor of the web world rather than a resident. I have so much work to do to create an identity online. I don't understand how people find it so easy, it is so overwhelming!

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