Today, I Googled "Morgan Wille". The first thing that came up was Facebook, and when I clicked on it, it showed the public view of my profile which is highly protected and doesn't show any information except who I'm friends with and my picture. The next thing was Linkedin, except I don't have a Linkedin so it led to another "morgan wille's" account. Also the search resulting in showing that I have a blogger account (specifically my CA 346 and in the abstract it said "My name is Morgan Wille. I'm a Junior here at Madison majoring in Com ... I'm from Brookfield, WI (suburb of Milwaukee) and love going home ..."), that I'm from Brookfield, I played tennis in high school, I'm on twitter. I went further and Googled "Morgan Wille Brookfield WI" and the results I got were similar but more personal..i.e. showing my parents names and siblings, High School, College...
Although I expected some information to be out on the internet, I was surprised to see so much of it. The internet is making it easier and easier for people to explore others personal information. I think this might cross some of the lines with internet privacy, especially if some web sites don't inform you of their privacy policy or if their policy changes. For example, I didn't know my blogger account would show up and give as much information as it did.
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