Did you know you could googled using your GN name?

gransnet soops googled in images brings up the most.

Yes, you are posting on a public notice board.

If you have nothing to hide, I would not worry yourselves.

The bullying threads remain forever folks so...

#be nice.

Agree with Fiachna worse on fb as you are known by your real name, so even more careful on privacy settings and even then, what info you wouldn't mind sharing.

MerylStreep, one of the purposes of starting this thread was just to let others GNs know that their posts can be viewed on Google . The more people who realise this, hopefully the less personal information will be posted and the safer users will be .

Aware of the dangers, I never had a profile on GN, nor have I ever posted any photographs.

I googled my real name and, despite having a relatively unusual name, there are a lot of women with my name, dead and alive, and it could be quite difficult to work out which is me. The only photo fronted a newspaper article, so was in the public domain anyway and you would have to know me to know that one of many photographs available and attributable to women with my name is me.

References to my professional and volunteer life, broadly identify the area I live in - but that I have referred to regularly, but hat is all.

Post my GN user name and Gransnet and I am very present,

I have seen at least two threads where the OP posted extremely detailed information about their family including names and places. One was quite recent but I can't find it now so it may have been removed. People have to understand how awful it is to do this to their family. Their children and grandchildren do not want their personal and private details to be splattered all over the internet. What if someone did that to them without their permission?

Every one of your bullying posts can be found by anybody typing your "username" AND "Gransnet".

#Be Nice.

It used to be the case that any accusations of bullying could be reported and the posts deleted. Define bullying, I've seen threads that debated what was and what wasn't going back years. It's apparently subjective. Not sure what happens if you Google 'gransnet bullying'?

According to Google, I'm a domestic goddess, living in Indiana. Who'd have thought it!

Does nobody read threads before commenting?

Several people have pointed out that there is no point in googling just your username - you have to add 'Gransnet' to see your posts. Most usernames are fairly commonplace on the Internet, so no, just googling that won't be linked to here, but adding the name of the site will show up your posts. .

www.google.com/search?q=GeminiJen+Gransnet&oq=GeminiJen+Gransnet&aqs=chrome..69i57.10035j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Gemini You have posted a lot.

You can also find your posts by entering your username in the search box at the top of Gransnet.

I think anyone can do that without being a Gransnet user.

Yes

I did not, I repeat not, have to add Gransnet to my user name for my information and posts to come up.

Possibly because it is an unusual combination, and there are not so many references outside Gransnet.

The last time I Googled my GN name it came up with pictures of a porn star!

If you google your full name all sorts of things come up and it's weird to see all the people with your name. Under images there was a picture of Marilyn Monroe!
Under my maiden name there was a psychic and my obituary!
I'm pleased to say the real me has absolutely no internet profile at all.

Just all your GN posts.

ananimous , thanks for the link in your previous post.

Just a word to any doubters -I've just tried it for myself and Everything I've ever posted is there.

No probs.

The interweb is forever peeps, remember that.

Yes, maybe the Internet is forever, depends on future cyber wars, dictatorships, software development, data collapse but beyond that, if our posts are anonymous and don't suggest location etc, who cares? As someone else pointed out, more information is easily available through other social media sites such as Facebook.

*curvygran950 - Am I the only person who didn’t know posters could be Googled?
I must be very naive indeed .*

No, not the only one, apparently.

Oh for goodness sake, this comes up regularly. Those of us who've been on the site for a while know this perfectly well. Someone up thread has linked to where on GN it is made clear that posts may be reproduced elsewhere.

Look, it's long been the case that you can Google yourself and if you've worked as a professional or for a well known organisation, then you'll have a Google profile. It's also very easy to request Google to delete your data from their servers and searches. We have the EU I believe to thank for being able to do that.

The UK has long been committed to the creation of robust data protection laws and was, in fact, one of the principal architects of GDPR. As such, the UK has already agreed that GDPR will be absorbed into UK domestic law as part of the European (Withdrawal) Agreement. Once this happens, we will see both GDPR and the UK's existing Data Protection Act 2018 working in tandem to rule on data cases.