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cirocco
12/01/09

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It's sickening that a site run by women--one that gives a lot of lip service to the idea that no one, regardless of her behavior, deserves to be sexually assaulted--is propagating an image that was taken of an intoxicated, unclothed woman without her consent. Without blurring her face, no less. What unjustifiable hypocrisy.
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Mushu_the_educated_whale
12/02/09

@cirocco: I thought so too. It's a sad picture.
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CaitlynCelsus
12/02/09

@cirocco: Here here!
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Danielle Kouyoumdjian
12/03/09

@cirocco: Hold the phone. Rape is the same as a drunken photograph? If you are implying that she was sexually assaulted, I ask you for evidence supporting this claim.
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cirocco
12/03/09

@Danielle Kouyoumdjian: She didn't consent to the picture--she's intoxicated to the point of unconsciousness. I doubt like hell Jezebel has her permission to run this shot. I didn't say that the subject was raped, but propagating this picture is victimizing her by exposing her to shame and ridicule. Did you read the article about Hope Witsell posted earlier today? Or about Jessica Logan's suicide? Why do you think Erin Andrews's "peephole videos" are, even as I type this, being investigated by the FBI? People's lives can be destroyed by having images of this sort in circulation.
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Treeless
12/01/09

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MOM?!?
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
12/01/09

@Treeless: LOL. Sister Agusta?
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TurtleSpeak
12/01/09

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The only Google result for my first name and last name is my Neopets account. So while it is embarrassing that everyone knows I've had a Neopets account for ten years and that I am still actively using it, it's not as bad as it could be...
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cand86
12/01/09

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My plan is to set up a website full of fake pictures of me, which will have accompanying text "Using myself as a model, I wanted to explore some of the most tragic ends of our young society's mistakes in an artistic way.". This way, when a compromising picture surfaces, I can just say it's from my collected works.

I wonder if I can pass off that video of me drunkenly singing as performance art, tho?
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sybann
12/01/09

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Almost ALL of my bad behavior predates the internet - and all of it predates Google - unfortunately the camera HAD been invented so I haven't exhaled fully.
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CollegeCamel
12/01/09

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My problem is that I have the same name as 1) A girl whose (public) Facebook page shows her in a bikini covered with tattoos and 2) Someone the same age as me who was busted for drunk driving somewhere.

It's not a very common name, so I constantly fear that I will be judged by these two.
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Ultraprison!
12/01/09

@CollegeCamel: I have the same name as a girl about my age in my industry who Gawker made fun of for saying stupid shit about my industry (journalism).

HR people, is there a nice way to mention in my cover letter that I am NOT the first Google result for my name?
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Ultraprison!
12/01/09

@Ultraprison!: Just Googled myself again. Radar Online, Huff Po, and Salon picked up the story from Gawker. Not-me is all over the interwebz. THANKS GAWKER.
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hydrogen_jukebox
12/01/09

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Actually, what's kind of weird but mostly flattering is that when I Google my name, a bunch of my design work from college comes up on random graphic design blogs in Japan and whatnot. They must have stolen it when I had it posted on the AIGA boards, but they credit me for it.

Thank you for promoting my work, faceless internet design fairies.
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A-girl
12/01/09

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See how the internet sees you:
[personas.media.mit.edu]
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rant/roar
12/01/09

@A-girl: This is interesting. I don't entirely 'get it', but it's beautifully put together!
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A-girl
12/01/09

@smama: I thought it was interesting to see 'other A-girls' (I'm an actress, an artist, and a company!). As it's art, interpret it as you will (I don't entirely 'get it' either).
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siandt
12/01/09

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I am, I think, the only person in the world with my name. My first name is not uncommon in France. My last name is not uncommon in South Africa. The combination (and in the US, no less) makes me particularly easy to pinpoint online and I'll have a hell of a time passing it off as someone else's mistake if something embarrassing pops up. My Google search comes up with mostly academic stuff, thankfully.
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
12/01/09

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Whenever I Google my name, I always get info about this mountain climber who sort of has my last name, but not really.
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kkatt
12/01/09

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I never understood the compulsion to take off your clothes while you were smashed. Rip them, get grass stains on them, throw up in them, sure! But disrobe? I never did that. As far as I know...
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Clarissima
12/01/09

@kkatt: You just haven't been drunk enough. Applause to you, I say.
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kkatt
12/01/09

@Clarissima: Thanks! I am topless in all of my dreams though... I hope they aren't flashbacks!
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ShinyMcShine
12/01/09

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This is why having a common name is a really good thing. There are hundreds of people with my name.

I think this should be a factor in choosing baby names.
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Clarissima
12/01/09

@ShinyMcShine: I have a common name as well. The great Google Army of Me name search leaves me hoping that any prospective employeers do not assume I am any of those girls.

For this reason, I now list my facebook URL on my CV. Just to prove who I actually am, even though I don't want these people to friend me.
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ShinyMcShine
12/01/09

@Clarissima: That's a good point. I have always just assumed that a prospective employers would see how many there are and realize there was no way to know if it was me or not.

I do remember once a Google image search came up with a mug shot of someone with my name.
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HereComesMyBaby
12/01/09

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Eeeek. Last night, I Googled my dad's name, and there's a dude with a VERY similar email to his leaving creepy sexual remarks on pictures of Russian women on the Internet.

I couldn't sleep because of this. So gross!

I told my dad about it but I guess he doesn't think Google is important. He was weirded out though.

In other news, a woman one letter off from my (insanely uncommon) name writes scrapbooking/craft books!
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hydrogen_jukebox
12/01/09

@HereComesMyBaby: Scrapbooking? You're lucky. A woman with one letter off of my insanely uncommon name is apparently a high-class escort in the UK.

Sweet. Good thing we look nothing alike! (Though she's probably in all likelihood much more successful than I.)
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Blueberry26
12/01/09

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Any embarrassing facebook shit out there I blame on whoever's bright idea it was to only allow college students, and then suddenly open it to the general public. Where once you had to be part of the club to find that shit, now you can be anyone.

My professor facebooked me my freshman year (the rest of the class as well, not skeevy) and for some reason it still took me about a year to wise up.
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WagaMama
12/01/09

@Blueberry26: I'm curious about that. I mean, college students age, right? So, when you graduate, did they used to kick you off of Facebook? Because if they didn't, then eventually there would have been non-college students on there anyway.
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IndignationCoordinator
12/01/09

@Blueberry26: I honestly don't really get why professors add students to their Facebooks. I teach at a university myself and basically I have all my students' e-mail addresses in case I need to shoot out a group message, and they are more than welcome to come visit me during my office hours or call my work phone, but other than that ech. I think that crosses boundaries, quite honestly.
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IndignationCoordinator
12/01/09

@WagaMama: I think that you just needed a college (.edu) e-mail address in order to register in the olden days. I don't think that those expire (though I could be wrong), so you weren't booted out upon graduation, I imagine.
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Blueberry26
12/01/09

@IndignationCoordinator: He knew all our names and faces the first day, which freaked me out. And he was a great professor and seemed like a cool guy, but as a student I feel weird having that kind of relationship with him. I got to know teachers in high school, but it was always on a student-teacher level and stayed in the classroom.

I was always a fan of the Mr. Feeney style of teaching, rather than that other guy who was everyone's friend and let Shawn live with him.
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WagaMama
12/01/09

@IndignationCoordinator: Ah, that makes sense. I know that I graduated from college almost 20 years ago, but as an alum I can still get a .edu address if I ponied up the fees for the alumni association.

I quit Facebook after my parents joined and I decided I didn't want to censor my FB self for my parents since I already have to do that in real life. And they are in their 60s. So, even some of us grown-ups think that the old farts have ruined Facebook. :)
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Breamworthy
12/01/09

@WagaMama: You know about restricted profile, right? I mean, I am definitely the wrong person to tell anyone about facebook features, being a complete facebook moron - but I know my little sister has my mum on restricted profile, so I know that such a thing exists. I am too boring to care - or maybe it's just that my mum is a raunchy old broad and I am too old to be worried about what she thinks.
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psychgirl1221
12/01/09

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When you have a last name like "Brown" I think it makes it harder for people to actually find you. If I google myself, I find a literary agent and a woman who apparently wrote some pet books. If my husband googled himself, you'd just get results for the author of the DaVinci code. We also have an Alton Brown in our family (not the TV star) and a James Brown (not the singer).
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boobookitteh
12/01/09

@psychgirl1221: That would be a pretty awesome family reunion though.
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