Okay, to confirm some business related information on an acquaintance, I googled. You know. Like you do. Once upon a time, you’d pick up the phone and call a mutual acquaintance or some other neutral third party when you needed some little bit of information that you probably should have known anyway, and would be kind of embarrassing to admit to the party themselves. So now there’s Google – that all purpose neutral third party who can save your butt from all sorts of interpersonal brain farts.
So, I start typing the person’s name in, and it goes into that suggestive search thing, where it gives you other popular searches that have started out as your has. Like you’re searching “George Cloo” and it offers “George Clooney”, “George Clooney ER”, “George Clooney limoncello”, “George Clooney girlfriend”, and the like. But when I started out with the acquaintances name and immediately it suggested this person’s name plus the word “fired”. Just slipped that word in there, all innocent-like. “Oh, was this what you were looking for?” Well, no. But I am only human. Yeah, I looked.
And it was all about how the acquaintance had “exited” their previous employment. Okay, I don’t know the situation, but . . . harsh. Super harsh. Not my experience of this person at all. But talk about things I didn’t need to know. Yikers.
Let’s face it. Google is our friend. But Google is everybody’s friend. And Google has a big mouth and will run and tattle anything they know to anyone who asks. Or possibly doesn’t actually ask. Sometimes they just offer up a big ol’ slice o’ run-and-tell pie to somebody who hadn’t actually bellied up to the gossip fence. Wow. Just wow, people. The internet is one scary place. And it gets scarier by the minute.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Yup. That's why I am amazed by what people put up on the internet. The worst, to me, is pics of their little kids, often with full names. I was reading this woman's page and she had pics of her school age kids, their names, what school they went to and their grade level. Yikes!
The whole world can read this stuff, folks.
So, what did you learn about Clooney?
Does Clooney have any secrets? Another day, another hot, not nearly age appropriate "companion".
The kids thing is kind of scary. And that kind of information is all the stuff that a predator would use to lure a kid, because, "Hey, would I know this if I didn't really know your parents?" People just don't think.
what is tough is that you cannot control what OTHER people post about YOU :-(
And it's actually easier to dismiss something that's just a blog or some site that has a rating function - people have axes and they will grind them. Unfortunatley, in this instance, one hatchet was attached to a professional publication. Yeeee-ouch.
Post a Comment