Negin Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I really dislike how if I google my name, all these pictures of me come up - obviously under Google Images. All Facebook pictures - even though my Privacy Settings are for friends only. Why does Google do this? Is there anything one can do, other than foregoing FB altogether? Am I just being silly and paranoid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Sorry about the typo in the subject heading. :glare: I hate it when that happens. Wish I could fix the typo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sputterduck Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Woah! My baby picture comes up... With my legal name (haven't changed it since exh left) other, much prettier people come up. lol But with my maiden name, it's my baby pic! Weird. And a few lines down, pics of friends I have on google+. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Hm, none of my facebook photos show up when I google my name. But, my name is pretty common. Even when I google my name, I have to get through quite a few hits (more than one page) before I get to one that is actually connected with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 But with my maiden name, it's my baby pic! Weird. And a few lines down, pics of friends I have on google+. When I googled my full maiden name? There are somebody's mugshots! LOL! (No, it wasn't me). As I said, my name is pretty common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 One of my sisters has an unusual name. I tried googling her and it *does* come up with some facebook pictures, but only a few. It looks like her profile pic (which is probably set to public, I think that is a default setting) and a handful of other photos that were taken by friends and which she was tagged in. Probably, the friends have lower settings than she does. None of her actual photos show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy2BeautifulGirls Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Only my FB profile pic comes up. And so does my hubby's bike. :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Lots of people come up for my name, but none of them are me. They all look pretty nice. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I have a very uncommon name and when I googled, the only pictures that came up were the logo for our local utility company. I "like" them on FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I'm guessing these are pictures your friends tagged you in, and they would be based on your friends settings not yours. If you don't want them visible un-tag them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Only my profile fb picture comes up, but then again so does a picture that is clearly Steven Tyler from Aerosmith:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 All of it is real estate information on our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I googled my name exactly as it appears on facebook and I didn't get any of my pictures, not even my profile pic or pics I have been tagged in. I am not sure what the difference is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Nothing of me. I'm not on FB If I google my maiden name I get images of another person. Someone of a different ethnicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I have an uncommon last name and none of my pictures show up. Not even my FB profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 No pictures of me come up, and I am on facebook. I have my privacy settings set pretty high, though. I'm not searchable on FB; I have to give permission for someone to tag me in a photo; and things of mine are only visible to friends (or to a more restricted group). I would suggest going through all of your account and privacy settings on FB and see which ones are making you publicly searchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lluv Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I searched by my maiden/married name and got nothing. Funny though, my maiden name brought back a few hits of nude women :confused:, none of me though :lol:. I thought I read one time that if you recently changed your profile to private, your photos would still come up on a google search, due to the data being cached in their database. I found this how-to remove images from Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I checked my maiden name, my first married name and my current married name on Yahoo and Google and no pictures of me come up. Most of them are very old black and white/sepia pictures since Dorothy was a more popular name 60 years ago. I am on Facebook with fairly strict privacy settings but I'm pretty sure I'm searchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 No pictures of me came up, not even my profile pic on Facebook. I went through 3 pages and no links related to me were there. My name must be more common than I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I googled my name exactly as it appears on facebook and I didn't get any of my pictures, not even my profile pic or pics I have been tagged in. I am not sure what the difference is. Same here.... I googled it a few different ways. Most are for me but ZERO pictures. Nothing embarrassing or overtly personal either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I googled my maiden name, which is definitely not common, and still nothing related to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenR Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I checked google and when I clicked "everything" (where you can choose images, maps, blogs, news, etc) I wasn't anyone near the first few pages. But when I clicked on "images" and searched my name there was one photo my kids. :( Granted there were a ton of unrelated images. There are some hot people out there with my name. Sadly.... I am not one of them. :glare: Also, Betty White images came up often... And no, that is not even close to my name so :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 My facebook account does not have my exact name. It did when I first signed up (a mistake I hope I have corrected) but now I have put extra vowels and consonants in the name. So it doesn't come up in Google searches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edithcrawley Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 If I'm logged into Google when I do the search I get images that I put on my blog. If I'm not logged into Google, I don't get anything related to me at all. Are you logged into Google? They started recently combining everything, so if you are logged in when you search, you'll get very personalized results (more so than before) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 If I'm logged into Google when I do the search I get images that I put on my blog. If I'm not logged into Google, I don't get anything related to me at all. Are you logged into Google? They started recently combining everything, so if you are logged in when you search, you'll get very personalized results (more so than before) It was the same for me. There were no pictures from my Facebook page just a handle from my blog that said they were personalized for me. I'm not sure if they would pop up for anyone else, and someone would have to know my name in the first place in order to search for me.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCrazyMama Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 No pictures of me, not even my FB profile picture. I searched both my maiden and married name. There was some guy's naked rear though.:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 All I know is that with my name, there are going to be issues, lol Lizzie Borden is my married name. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 i googled my married name and maiden name. there's absolutely nothing. i don't have a FB account though. there are some very accomplished people with my name, as well as a porn star and jailbird, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWife Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Nothing comes up for me, but someone who has my sister's name has a rather nice grave stone. I checked google and then google images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 All I know is that with my name, there are going to be issues, lolLizzie Borden is my married name. :D :lol: You could be right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlluminatedAttic Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I have an unusual name. My FB profile pic does come up, then a bunch of pictures of dogs, then book images about crop dusting, then a few inspirational saying. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 This is scary. i googled my name, not very common and there were all kinds of things that came up about me. no pictures thank goodness but where i live, where i've lived, my hobbies, the prices of my houses that i've lived in, my religious choices....yikes. i do not like this one single bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Thank you all for your replies. Some of your comments/finds were funny :lol:. Some are obviously of concern. :001_huh: No pictures of me come up, and I am on facebook. I have my privacy settings set pretty high, though. I'm not searchable on FB; I have to give permission for someone to tag me in a photo; and things of mine are only visible to friends (or to a more restricted group). I would suggest going through all of your account and privacy settings on FB and see which ones are making you publicly searchable. With FB's new timeline setting, how can I check and/or change my privacy settings? I can't seem to find it. I used to be able to find it easily. :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Interesting! My name isn't common, but my last name is also the name of a large city. When I google my name, I get lots of real estate listing and information on a woman who has my first name and lives in the large city. Apparently, she is a very popular doctor and does lots of civic work. However, the first google listing is an ad from the US White Pages :confused: saying there is one listing for my name, and gives my home address. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I don't see any pics of me at all. But apparently someone with my name (different spelling) draws pictures of naked ladies--and not well at all. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyBrooke Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 When I Google Image my Facebook name, hundreds of gorgeous pictures of a very beautiful woman come up. She looks like me in the sense that we have the same length/color hair and approx body size, so hopefully people googling me will think she's me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 I don't see any pics of me at all. But apparently someone with my name (different spelling) draws pictures of naked ladies--and not well at all. :lol: :lol: When I Google Image my Facebook name, hundreds of gorgeous pictures of a very beautiful woman come up. She looks like me in the sense that we have the same length/color hair and approx body size, so hopefully people googling me will think she's me :) :lol: Some of you ladies are really making me laugh. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamakimberly Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I guess I'm lucky I own a web-based business- everything that comes up for me (other than a couple headshots from business sites) is related to my fonts. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I googled my first and last name and in 10 pages nothing was about me. I stopped looking then. Then I googled my First Maiden Last and discovered that my MA thesis is listed in Google Books! I didn't know that! :001_smile: Also discovered that comments I've made on FB on public pages are listed, like one time when I commented on SWB's post. Not so happy about that. But I think I can go back and delete them since they are all old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 If you google "Mergath," you get pages and pages of me. :tongue_smilie: I've always used the same username. As for my real name, my married name is fairly uncommon, and a few of the hits are actually me. My maiden name is super common and has a million results, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustybug Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I googled my married name (which is pretty uncommon) on the images part and got pictures of bridesmaids dresses and one very disturbing picture of a photography shoot of someone shooting a gun in their mouth with blood splattering out of the back of their head. :001_huh: I didn't see any pictures of me. I did come up with my profile on a few forums and my blog on the regular search. With my maiden name, still nothing. On BOTH searches, I got pictures of Dusty Rhodes the wrestler and Dusty Springfield. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 With FB's new timeline setting, how can I check and/or change my privacy settings? I can't seem to find it. I used to be able to find it easily. :confused: I haven't been changed to timeline yet, so I don't know if that affects this. I click on the tiny little arrow to the right of "home" in the top right corner of a FB page. Then I click on Privacy Settings and then on "Apps, Games and Websites." At the bottom, you'll find "Public Search." Click on "Edit Settings," and you can enable or disable public search. I have it disabled, and I always have (which may affect whether there are cached images out there of me). On the main page for privacy settings, I went through everything and changed them so that I have to approve all tags for photos or posts, and who can see my profile. Basically, I checked every link on that page and put the settings up really high. The end result of all of it is that if I'm not already friends with you on FB, you can't find me there when you search. I just don't come up. This means I have to initiate all friend requests, which is a bit of a pain, but it's worth it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 On the main page for privacy settings, I went through everything and changed them so that I have to approve all tags for photos or posts, and who can see my profile. Basically, I checked every link on that page and put the settings up really high. The end result of all of it is that if I'm not already friends with you on FB, you can't find me there when you search. I just don't come up. This means I have to initiate all friend requests, which is a bit of a pain, but it's worth it to me. Thank you so much. I updated a few things. The tagging photos part is a bit unclear. I hope it works. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassoonaroo Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) Ha ha. Once, years ago, I had the flu (the week-long fever and achy thing) and I was bored and I googled myself. FWIW, I've got one of those names that can be male or female (I was named after my dad, actually). I didn't find me (and I don't have photos on my seldom-used Facebook acct), but I did find that I share my name with: 1. A nice Christian minister's wife who leads ladies groups and wrote a book. Her photo looks very nice. The creepy thing is, her husband's name is my ds' name! Ha ha. I am NOT married to my son. I can't find her photo today. 2. A British supermodel who actually has done some very-little-clothing sorts of modelling. She's a lot younger and a lot more endowed than myself (and I think that endowment was surgical). Anyone who hunts me down thinking that I am her will be sorely disappointed. 3. A blues musician who is a black male, opposite of me being a white female. I almost bought a tee shirt of his band (which is named after him ... er me) to wear as a night shirt. The one on the right, of course. 4. A real estate agent somewhere in Texas. It's really a weird feeling to see your name attached to someone else. Edited January 29, 2012 by Bassoonaroo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photo Ninja Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 It's really a weird feeling to see your name attached to someone else. That's for sure. There was a photo with my name, but it certainly was not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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