When conducting the activity Google “ego search” I found a facebook profile (not mine), a Flickr profile (also not mine but a professional photography business “Erin Butler Photography” who interestingly enough shares a birthday in the same month as mine), my twitter profile, a LinkedIn profile (not mine but the Manager of Operations of NAB – impressive), many images of Erin Butler (but none of me), and the official Erin Butler Photography website. I decided to narrow my search by including my middle name and nothing interesting came up so I tried my maiden name which resulted in 6 different LinkedIn profiles for different Erin Gilchrists, a facebook page (not mine), a blogger profile (not mine) and some images (not of me). I narrowed it down again to include my middle name and nada – this ego search was not very successful in bumping up my ego that's for sure. Having said that I was happy with the results, I was a little nervous about what I might find. I am pleased to see that there are no inappropriate images or websites containing information about me – this gives me comfort. Completing this activity left me comfortable with the idea that a future employer (or my Mum or Grandmother) could attempt to find incriminating information about me without success (because there is none). I found it very interesting that no links for the “web prescence” I have created for myself came up.
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