I just Googled my name because it's been a while since I looked.

[Laffy Kat]

First mention: Forward Party! I have NEVER belonged to the Forward Party and I don't want that to pop up. I have an usual name with an usual spelling. There is no way that could be anyone else. How do I get this off? I am livid.

[Quakerfriend]

1. They have an address at:

1701 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20036

You can also check your state address.

Very creepy!

[Laffy Kat]

7. Thanks. I sent them an email, but who know if they even open those. nt

[nancyfladem]

2. Google can remove results

If you're logged into a Google account you can request removal of personal info in Search via Google.

Click on the three dot menu next to the result on the Google page. On the bottom left, you'll see "remove this result."

This is a link to Google Support explaining the process in case my explanation isn't clear:

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/9685456?hl=en

It really does work. There were several results with my address, phone, party affiliation and other such info that I asked to be removed- no longer there.

[Laffy Kat]

11. This is what I need! Thanks ever so much. nancyfladem!

[nancyfladem]

13. Glad to helo!

🙂

[sanatanadharma]

3. Creepy, curious, close, crap, compilation of relational speculation

It is all there in a curious mix of fiction and fact and all the fractious-frictions we create in life. My life.

I played the game and am glad to say I barely exist but apparently have an alias I never knew. I do know how Aibot conflated me and other not-mes to make a new expanded me.

The internet can do it! It can make us bigger, better, larger than our life story to entertain the future. That is until the servers are scrubbed and history is lost in a metaphoric technological-burning of the library at Alexandria.

[Laffy Kat]

12. True and well stated.

[getagrip_already]

4. Yeah, there is one other guy with my first and last name in the us....

He is a 6 time felon in tx. We have different middle names but our ages are similar.

I keep expecting to be pulled over in some last century hamlet and held for an out of state warrant.

Don't know what to tell you about that party, but make sure your party affiliation is correct on your official voter registration roll.

[Laffy Kat]

8. I did and it still has me as a Democrat, thank god.

[regnaD kciN]

5. I'm glad I use my full (including middle) name...

…because just googling my first and last names directs me to a couple of college football players, a Republican state senator from the deep south, and a paramedic convicted of sexually assaulting patients.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Yikes!

I use my middle initial, too, and it included that on the Foward Party post. My first name is spelled quite unusually and my last name is rare. I don't know how this happened.

[hunter]

6. Used to be, long ago, I could google my name and another word or two and find a naked pic.

Damn, I was hot!

Alas no more.

[Laffy Kat]

10. You're braver than I ever was.

I wasn't bad either back in the day, but I'm way too introverted and modest to ever let anyone take a nekkid photo. BUT. I say, if you've got it, flaunt it, and whatever floats your boat.

[LuckyCharms]

14. Whenever I Google my name...

A bunch of mugshots/articles/court cases from people across the country having the same name as me come up.

Apparently, a lot of people with my name are criminals.

Half of them look like psychos, too.

[Laffy Kat]

15. Well that's unfortunate.

Those of us who know you know better!

[LuckyCharms]

16. Aw thanks! The good news is that there are a lot of

physicians, CPAs, and lawyers having my name as well, so I guess it evens out.

But the criminals are the ones they show first.