Huh, wow

Oct. 11th, 2010 04:07 pm
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So do you guys ever google yourselves? I was just doing so now because I'm working on job apps again and although I don't hide the fact that I am fannish, I don't want a potential employer's first impression of me to be formed by googling my real name and finding a whole lot of old lady porn.

So I deleted my twitter account, which I never use, because even though I removed my surname from my twitter profile MONTHS AGO, it's still the top result I find when I google my name, which wouldn't be a problem except that it links the featherxquill username to my real name, so no, thank you.

And then I googled featherxquill, just for the hell of it, and I found that my Blackadder fic, The Birthday Party, has a page in fan history wiki. It's just a summary and a link, but huh, kinda cool. At first I thought it must be because it was a Yuletide story, but if that's the case, I'd think my fic from last year would be listed too, and it doesn't seem to be. So apparently someone took the time to make a wiki entry for my story, or maybe Blackadder stories, which is kinda cool.

*is a bit chuffed* :)

Date: 2010-10-11 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norwegianne.livejournal.com
When I started contemplating looking for jobs after uni, I googled myself - and since one of the first results were (since I had almost exclusively gone by nicks) a pair of M*A*S*H fanfics I wrote back in 1996 or thereabouts, where my real name had got itself attached due to emailing from a RL account.

I ended up getting one of them (the site had later mirrored) deleted.

I then started setting up RL stuff on the web, so I would have an officially sanctioned web-presence, and to drown the older stuff.

I put up a Twitter account with my full name, as well as a LinkedIn account, and joined AllRecipes with my full name. Haven't done much with the latter, but it gave me an additional web-result.

The LinkedIn is golden if you want to job search. Can never hurt to have a resume out there, and retrievable.

Date: 2010-10-11 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tetleythesecond
Congrats! When I google myself, I learn that Tetley, the second largest tea brand in the world, was acquired by Tata.

Date: 2010-10-12 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] canellaphile.livejournal.com
I'm somewhat obsessed with separating fandom stuff and real life, mainly because the people I work with are VERY google and search savvy.

Congrats on your wiki article! :)

Date: 2010-10-21 06:01 pm (UTC)

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