Fabulizr

Get offline

Still reading this blog? Great!
Again, if you don’t want your name online, then don’t do anything online. Be passive. Just read. Don’t interact.
Sure, you can do your banking online. Your bank doesn’t spill the beans on you online. But be sure not to get caught in a phishing trap (or hook rather) when reading your email. “A what?”
And you may not be online, but your employer may be, and your friends certainly are, your hobby club, the fitness center,… At one point in time they might spill the beans on you (the office party pictures, the trivia night results, …)

Most likely your name did turn up some results.
Are these results indeed about you, or someone else?
If they are someone else, is it obvious they are someone else?
If the results are you, did you put them online?
Are they what you expect them to be? Is it good? Or is it baaaaad? Worse than bad…?
Or you couldn’t care less. That’s cool. You can do the exercise again next year, see what turns up then. In the mean time, break up with your friends, go live in a tree house in a forest and ignore the fact that the Internet exists and is here to stay!