I have accounts with Facebook, Reddit, Google, Skype, and Youtube. Of these, only Facebook, Skype and Google are associated with any part of my name. Partly because of privacy concerns, but mostly because I don’t use the others socially and therefore don’t have any reason to have my name put on them.

Google didn’t find me within 10 pages, but Bing and Yahoo both got my Facebook on page 1. Other than that I didn’t get anything at all, which is exactly what I expected. If someone were Facebook friends with me, they could conceivably find the username I use for most of my other accounts (which is pretty unique and finds those accounts immediately), but other than that I would appear to be relatively anonymous. This pleases me—I don’t like the idea of anyone and everyone being able to find out everything I do online, even if it is all boring crap that no one cares about. I don’t have anything to hide, per se, but I very much like having the option to hide it. And if anyone were to go to enough trouble that they could find me, they’re probably knowledgeable enough that I couldn’t do anything to stop them anyway, short of completely leaving the internet and moving to a new city.