Did you know you could googled using your GN name?

Chewy just googled you and forever posts from 2017.

Several not forever!!!

I’ve just Googled my name. Guess what it comes up with....?

Pensionpat I googled your moniker and there were several threads including one from 2016 that you had posted on.

Google mine and as I expected there's quite a bit about credit cards. I didn't see anything relating to me at all.

I`ll bet you can guess what`s listed for my name!

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There are many and various M0nicas on the google pages for that name, none of them is me.

Is this an example of becoming invisible in old age?

Just googled mine I am an amplifier

Googling my user name comes up with several of my GN posts and photos

I know it's public forum but wasn't aware searching my user name would show my posts. As far as I'm aware nobody knows my user name anyway.

If you google your username followed by gransnet all your posts appear

Wouldn’t get very close googling mine!

I've just checked and apparently I'm on a dating site.

My user name just brings up endless delicious recipes! ?
I've no problem with that. ? I've been careful not to put any identifying names or locations as I'm extremely wary of the internet and its search capabilities!

Can't believe how many Buffybees there are, none of them me.
Buffy Bee honey and a Buffybee looking for a man, ? not me
honest!

Oh dear just googled mine and first up came many, many posts to and from me.
I am actually very shocked.
Only consolation is that no-one in RL knows my username.

As Lucca says, you have to put Gransnet after your name, or you will just get all references to your user name.

If you do that, you will see a list of your posts, whether or not missing out 'Gransnet' links to other people or things. Try 'Chestnut Gransnet', or 'Buffybee Gransnet' and scroll down a bit.

It really only matters if you have posted identifying information, or if someone like the police has the authority to ask for your IP address (the string of digits that identifies your computer at the time of the post) and can link you directly to your posts.

That is highly unlikely to be a priority for the authorities though, unless you are posting about matters of national security on an open forum without protecting your computer .

Just googled my username and it came up with more shopping sites than I knew existed. I am in heaven?

Its a public forum, so Im careful what I put on it. I treat this, how I treat Facebook. If anyone bothered to google mine, theyd probably be bored witless. Im amazed at what information people put online nowadays, in particular on Facebook.

When will some posters realise that GN is not the virtual reality equivalent of your friends sitting room. It's a business.
I'm constantly astounded that people are using the internet and have zilch idea of how it works and how information is shared.

Yehbutnobut If you add "Gransnet" to Yehbutnobut you can see lots of your past posts.

Thank you Elegran.

Quite a few Felice on Google but none of them is me. It is quite a common French surname so that is to be expected.
If I Google my real name there are a few items and photographs which were in the public domain anyway.

If you put gransnet in google and search images you can see all photos that people have put on.

People that know you will recognise rooms in your house ,pics of grandchildren and actual photos of meetups.

The internet can be dangerous.
Not to scare mom her but one poster a few years ago was very open with information. I never interacted with said poster. However when bed bound one day I spent 10 min (maximum. That’s all it took)
And managed to find her GC address and then on google maps the house and from that was able to easily work out which school she attended.
It honestly took zero effort.