When I Google my name I get sites for bookstores and the like. When I Google my full name, I get the usual: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube accounts with that name (just for the record, I do not have usernames/URLs with my actual name on these sites), but there's also relevant results, and I wonder whether they only pop up because I'm signed into Google, or because I actually do rank that high on the search.
There was a time when we actually used search engines other than Google, but I think that time is far off enough for some of you not to have experienced it. I wonder what the results would be if I used MSN or Yahoo search, but I am not compelled to try. I'm curious, but not that curious.
You know how you can set your Facebook URL to something personal instead of a random one? One of my Facebook friends set hers to "firstnamelastname.official" for the day when she becomes a famous author. Talk about confidence. (Mine is the screen name I usually use. I mention it in my other Wattpad book "White Night Gold Dawn: narratives from the soul". What, you think I was going to spill it so easily? Actually, if you'd read my Wattpad bio you'd have known it already; it's there too.)
When I recently made a new Gmail address (the old one wasn't based on my name, and I needed a new name-based one for official use [coincidentally, do you remember the time when Gmail started out as invite-only? If you don't, then your first email address was probably a Gmail one, not a Hotmail one]) I had to put a whole string of numbers after my name to make it an original address. You really have to work on it now. Just putting "1" or your birth date doesn't work now. At least not for me.
My friend Tazi managed to make a new Gmail address a year or so ago with her actual full name. Perks of having a unique name. (How's that for yet another "perks of" Wattpad book title? The best one I've read so far is "The Perks of being a Hafizah". I love UmmTameem786's style!).
Did you ever Google yourself? Why or why not?
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