I have spent much of the morning trying to find an email address for someone I knew quite some time ago (12 years, actually). I thought this would be easy. It's not. I've come up with where he lives and where he works, but can't get any further than that, even though his name is somewhat uncommon. Previous attempts at finding people on the Internet have always been very successful, so I was surprised at how unsuccessful this one is so far, especially given that the person for whom I am looking is quite technologically inclined, or at least he used to be.
This got me to thinking, maybe he doesn't want to be found? And that got me to thinking, would I want to be found? I think that I would, so I started to search for myself and was surprised to find that without knowing me as "Avengingophelia," which someone I went to high school with would not, I'm hard to find as well! The only hits you get for my name are from college projects or jobs that are far out-of-date.
So I want to make myself clear: This blog is not a secret. My name is Grace Mitchell and I am originally from Elkton, Oregon. I went to Reed College and now live in Austin, Texas. If you want to contact me, email avengingophelia@yahoo.com.
There. Let's seem if I am easier to find now.
Comments (3)
I think more and more while people are fine with people finding them, they don't want spambots to, so they wouldn't have their email addy on a webpage....
Posted by broad | August 10, 2005 3:01 PM
Gosh, I just Googled myself, and I'm scattered all over the internet. I would be terrifyingly easy to stalk. How dismaying.
Posted by Sofiya | August 10, 2005 3:57 PM
While looking up a friend from high school a couple of months ago, I came across this website, Intelius.com. It searches public records and then charges you a fee if you want info on someone. It seems to use the same info that the credit agencies use, because I notice that the same name errors of mine that show up on my credit reports also show up here. I looked you up, though, Grace, and you're there among all the other women of the same name. I could buy your info for $7.95, which is much cheaper and more complete than Classmates.com. For $50, I could get all your marriage, divorce, home ownership info. I find that to be a little scary, personally... Anyhow, I couldn't find my friend through other means, so maybe I'll pay the $8 to look for him on this website... Maybe you could find your friend that way, too.
Posted by Scand79 | August 10, 2005 4:12 PM