Googling myself is actually something that I remember trying when I was a lot younger. I think it was the summer and my brother and I were on the family computer and we were bored. I believe the only things that came up for me at that point in time were my Facebook page and a photo of my dance studio that had been in the newspaper.

Now that I am googling myself at the age of 19, I have found that I have a much larger online footprint.

When googling my name, my Facebook and my Linkedin pages show up in the first four hits. I then ventured to the second page of results and found my YouTube account as well as this blog on our class list of learner blogs!

Then, once I clicked on images, four images of me appeared on the first page alone.

Retrieved from https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-arts/sleeping-beauties-3023651

Retrieved from https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-arts/magic-carpet-ride-2990830

Retrieved from https://www.delta-optimist.com/living/deltas-new-theatre-company-3079663

 

Retrieved from https://www.devilsadvocatenews.com/at-the-moment/winter-formal1

All but the last photo were from various theatre productions I have been a part of and were featured in the local newspaper as well as their website. The last photo is from when I was in grade 8 and I performed in our school talent show that the school humbly titled “Extravaganza”. My high school has a blog that is run by students, so that year, there was an article about Extravaganza featured in the blog.

Next, I looked through the videos section of Google and was actually shocked to discover no videos of me or that had any relation to me at all! I thought that, because my theatre photos had shown up, there would definitely be a video of a performance somewhere on Google; but there were none to be found after looking through the first three pages of results.

Next, I tried adding my hometown to my name in the Google search. Similar results came up on the “all” page, so I clicked on images. Any guesses as to what came up in images? Yep, more theatre photos!

The entire first row of photos all have me in them, plus the first two in the second row!

Because I knew that photos from the shows I was in were being put in the newspaper and therefore also on the newspaper’s website, I was not very surprised at the photos that I was able to find when googling myself. However, since I hadn’t googled myself in a little while, I was slightly taken aback by the number of photos that were put in the newspaper that I had been in.