So, I recently got bored (what a surprise), and so I looked up my user name on Google.

My first reaction was, "Whoa! I didn't know I had that many accounts!"

Then I was rather creeped out.

If someone can look up my user name on Google, then they can learn quite a lot about me.

If you don't believe me, you can look up your own user name.

Just found that rather strange and scary...

Cheers,
gman021

I typed in my username and it found 2 pages with posts I have made on here and on other forums. Even ones I am not members on. I was quite freaked out by this matter.

I think it's normal. Internet is a huge data "bank" and google search all and everything in all the data. So if you type your username you can find all you've done, all you've said... I think it's normal.
BTW I tried to type my name and I find 242 answers and 10 pages

I hope you will understand my english.

Menrhunes

I don't care if someone finds all the stuff I've posted online... I've always been careful not to include personally identifiable information. The scariest thing I found is that I'm not the only one using this username. I thought it was unique (and it used to be), but that's not the case anymore. It saddens me to think that someone may associate me with online content I have nothing to do with.

The most interesting thing about my username is how many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language listings there are. Meanwhile things I've actually done don't even register. Kinda funny really. Even the handle I used to use before returned more bogus entries than anything. Guess it shows my contribution to the web...

Well, this shouldn't be too big of a surprise. The internet isn't a private affair after all.

If Googling your screename creeps you out then you might be surprised what you find when you search your real name.

Not so much in my case. Although there are plenty of entries for my name, absolutely none of them actually link back to me. Probably because I've been good, and never used my real name anywhere. Not having a Blog or Myspace page probably helps with that. And no, I'm not going to tell you my name. Did the same thing a few years ago, and was actually supprised to find even more musicians and similar with the same name as me than was previously there. Ironically, I have no musical or artistic talent.

Not for me. I just get a bunch of stuff on a famous actor from the early 1900's...

Yeah, it would really only be scary if there were alot of things being said about you, without you knowing.

I get a load of illegal torrents uploaded by someone called The_Terminator... but nothing about me. And for Jonan Amraphenson (my other username) I just get a load of EVE online killboard stats, which arent bad (though i think that site's actually wrong ), so nothing especially scary about me.

Looks like my username is quite popular...over 6,300 results

Dare I say I set the trend?

My real name does not exist anywhere on the googled internet. How cool for me. And here i have hated my name all this time.

I ain't gonna google mine ...I don't wanna know...

Gman21 said: "If someone can look up my user name on Google, then they can learn quite a lot about me."

....now, why does that bring a Carly Simon song to mind....

I googled mine, and it's like finding a needle in a hay stack. Way too many hits.

Mos, there is nothing to be afraid of the first hit is Humor.

I inherited my user-name from my late godson, and there's no telling what and where that crazy little fart did the five or so years he was on the net.

It seems someone on a few warcraft forums has my username. I never intended on playing that game anyway.

Hmm. Mine comes back with, surprisingly only me. Gee, and here I thought I had a common username!

I doubt anyone else used my username.

How can they when you're the only one that can spell it.