After searching for my name, I found myself to be a little lucky. I didn't really find anything that pertained to my name as Brooke Martin. I guess I could call myself a little fortunate because my name recently changed after I got married. Searching under my married name, Martin, I found several links to the following topics:
Web search
- Brooke Martin Photography, she is quit talented
- Brooke Martin, a 14 year old girl who created a dog treat company called ICPooch
- Brooke Martin, a news anchor in Indianapolis
- I did find my blog that I have for my classes.
- I also found my name linking to my student organization under their board members
Image search
- I did not find anything in reference to myself
Video search
- I saw a lot of Brooke Martin on Vine, but I do not have a Vine account
When searching for Brooke Maxey, my maiden name, I found the following:
Web search
- A lot of links to social media, all of which were not my accounts
- I did find several links for a blog that I wrote when I was an intern at Gallery Furniture for winter break in college.
- I also found a link that took me to my wedding/engagement/bridal session (fun to reminisce)
- Brooke Maxey, the volleyball player
Image search
- I found a picture of my husband and I
- I found my work ID photo from their website
- I found several of my wedding pictures
- A lot of Brooke Maxey, the volleyball player
Video search
- I found footage of volleyball games
From my results, I found it a little shocking that I did not find more links to myself. I remember when I first became a teacher, I caught students Google searching my name all the time. I believe it was my first year of teaching, about half way through the first semester, a student found my name and my phone number posted online. I was horrified thinking, oh my goodness, what am I going to do now? They found my information from a Facebook link. The page was for someone who had lost their phone and asked everyone to post their numbers on the page. I told my students that if they looked at the date, the post was 3 years old, they would see it was a long time ago and I explained it was an older number. I have no idea how I came up with that little white lie by the skin of my pants, but it worked! I never received a phone call from a student. From that point on, I was very cautious of what went online.
I have done searches of myself in previous years to see what students could find on me and I never found anything that I wouldn't be proud of. I guess I consider myself lucky because I grew up in a transitional stage of technology and I was really involved in instant messaging (back when AOL dial-up was cool) and text messaging. Also, I was a littler terrified of my Dad because he was strict on what I could do on the computer. I do like that when I search for myself, I see a lot of professional items such as; my blog posts from Gallery Furniture, Graduate School blog for my classes, my professional information on my student organization website because I am a board member, and my work information on my school website. I say I am an active person with technology, I am just cautious on what I put online. I have always been terrified to post that I am leaving on vacation for a week and I come home to a burglarized house or even someone stalking me. I guess I have watched too many Life Time movies haha.
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