Check your "username" on Google.

Question

If you have an unusual username then check it on Google. If you have been on this site for a while, you will be amazed that there can be literally thousands of your entries listed there.

Answer 1

Kind of creepy...and my name is not that unusual.

• That's very creepy. - Alicia-53 Nov 8, 2009
• 18,200 entries in SpanishDict - incredible. - 00515f39 Nov 8, 2009

Answer 2

It is called Google Dashboard and I posted this a couiple of days ago. It is worth a read.

Google Dashboard Info

Answer 3

All of which, for privacy's safety, one must be extremely careful when choosing both user names and (especially) passwords.

Care should also be taken with any information provided for a "profile."

• Lie, lie, lie. - Zoltán Nov 8, 2009
• That is the exact reason I have not made a profile - it gives away too much info. - 00515f39 Nov 8, 2009
• Will you kindly explain the bee in your bonnet, Sr. Zoltán? - 005457e3 Nov 8, 2009
• Good point, Carlo. - --Mariana-- Nov 8, 2009

Answer 4

Off topic but related to this thread and could be very important to some of us.
. It was on TV (US) today that google has a function where you can check all the data Google has accumulated on you and you can remove the nasty items that you (unintentionally) searched for or viewed. I wish I had a pen at my bed, but the time I got up the name slipped my mind. Anyone knows the command to view your data?

• You mean that they keep track of all the porn sites that you've visited? I'll have to check that out. I've lost track of a few sites. - qfreed Nov 12, 2009

Answer 5

Lot of great stuff I've written out there on different forums.

• 19,400 entries on SpanishDict - prolific! - 00515f39 Nov 12, 2009