At first I was shocked when I googled myself in class. There were pictures I wasn't surprised to see some pictures of myself that I had posted on twitter and facebook, but there were some images that caught me off guard. I saw pictures of that my friends and family had posted, some of them I wasn't even in. I saw screenshots from some of my youtube videos. I saw images that I had downloaded from the internet, and pictures that I had posted on my Art and Technology blog last semester. There were pictures of me that my dad had posted, and pictures of my dad's girlfriend that had nothing to do with me.
Google's ability to hunt down pieces of your life that are displayed online is a little bit scary, but then again, if you post things on the internet you are putting them out there for anyone to see. So finding images that I have posted isn't that abnormal, since I searched my own name. What I don't think is acceptable is how google searched through people I communicate with and displayed other people's images on the search. What if one of my friends set her settings to private and doesn't want to be found, but people can still find her images under my name? It scared me that there were images of my friends that I wasn't even in, and I don't think it's right that they should be displayed under a name search that isn't theirs.
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