Did you ever put your real name in a search engine, like Windows desktop search or Google? I did and was surprised that I am all over the Internet (Karin Bartsch). You might be too!! Try it!

i have done that over the years, and it is fun. im not on myspace or facebook, but there are quite a few others with my name on those sites. i get a kick out of seeing a strangers face with our name attached to it. its interesting which of my own websites/personal info comes up on the search also. my real estate websites pop up high on the search engines, because im in sales and i had arranged to have high google placement. but theres a lot of other stuff out there ~ im on linkedin, classmates, a book that i collaborated on over a decade ago is still being advertised, etc. tmi! the information age is simply incredible i think.

I have an extremely common last name and an extremely uncommon first name. It makes me anonyms, and obvious when called out. What is distressing is, there is a famous female beauty queen with my name, and I'm a guy... =/

found no one with my name . . .

Yes. I'm an original.

I found out I'd run the NY marathon! Pretty clever of me I thought! :-)