So you know in this day and age, people "google" you, you google them, you google yourself, and so on. And actually, career advices now include googling yourself and/or reviewing multitudes of social networking sites to make sure nothing unseemly pops up. So I googled myself today because it's been a while and I was curious if the results would be the same as before.
My first name is rather unusual. I used to think that it's unusual even for a Korean name. For quite a while now, if you googled just my first name, what comes up is this website I set up while I was in law school. During the mid to late 90's, websites were no more than homepages with a bunch of links to sites that people thought were cool. I figured a website with actual substance would be cooler and taught myself html by viewing various site codes to upload all my law school outlines. While I was attending those classes (it was brutal finishing and uploading them while preparing for finals). Granted it has all my short-hands, but if you know law school study methods, outlines are pretty much a necessity.
Because that website has been around for a long time (now over a decade), it has trumped a lot of other sites (even my blog) if you googled my name. Why? I think it's because over time a lot of other legal resource sites linked to my website as well (heck, it's free and I'm not even getting paid for ads on that site).
But today, I found out the price of not having a Facebook account -- a Facebook account of another person with my first name comes up as the first search result of google. Which made me laugh out loud ... because I'm rather amused that a social networking site should trump a site that tries to give some substance to others. But I guess it's an indication that Facebook is a lot more important than, say, free legal outlines.
More power to Facebook. And if you are curious, yes, I'm still rebelling and I am not getting a Facebook account.
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