vanity search management
If you are at all active online (uploading photos, writing blog posts, commenting on other blogs, uploading video, monitoring your Facebook account, creating baby / marriage registries, managing your resume on LinkedIn, listening to music, etc.) then your vanity search has exploded.
As more of our lives are being spent online so to is it easier and easier for people (strangers, potential dates, potential employers or employees, long-lost friends, etc.) to find out who we are in picture, video, words, connections, etc.
This is both exciting and, perhaps, a bit frightening.
The exciting part is that it allows us to share - easily. The frightening part is that we can’t always control what is shared and in what order.
Just as businesses are able to bid for top placement, I wish people could choose what gets top placement for their name search. I wouldn’t want to pay, but I shouldn’t have to - it’s my name. I realize this can be done technically (via optimization), but I wish their was a non-techie way to manage my name’s search results, and I’m thinking this is going to be a big concern for folks as the masses begin sharing their lives online.
