Comments on: ClaimMyName: Self-Help Against Name-Squatting on Social Media Services

By: yiid.com

yiid.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:35:08 +0000

It seems to be a great service, but it isn't to expensive ?

Regards
Marco

By: yiid.com

yiid.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:35:08 +0000

It seems to be a great service, but it isn't to expensive ?

Regards
Marco

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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:53:05 +0000

[...] indicator of which TLF posts are hottest. But what are you waiting for, anyway? You’d better claim your name on Twitter before someone else does! It’s easy to set up an account and free, of course, and you can add followers from your [...]

By: Berin Szoka

Berin Szoka — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Clearly, my parents were thinking ahead!

Your point is a fair one, EF. Apparently, there are a mere 172 Szokas in the U.S.!

But yes, many of my friends having kids are, indeed, deliberately picking out unique names because of the Internet era. I suspect that trend with accelerate as more couples hyphenate or even amalgamate their names--thus creating a much more diverse mix of last names. For example, a friend of mine, formerly Bobby Smith, is now Bobby Smithney, having married one Ms. Courtney.

By: Berin Szoka

Berin Szoka — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:31:00 +0000

By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:06:51 +0000

The value of this varies greatly from person to person; see http://howmanyofme.com. According to that site there is only one of me, so who would sit on that name? No if you are John Smith....

I had read a story that indicated that soon-to-be-parents were actually picking out names so their future children would be unique when "googled" That seems silly--by the time these children are grown up the likelihood of the net being the same seem remote indeed.

By: Jayel Aheram

Jayel Aheram — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:58:48 +0000

The only problem with claiming names on any of these services iis that merely claiming them is not enough.

Unless you keep track of them and update the profiles accordingly, you will end up with a lot of dead-ends when someone searches for you on Google or any search engine. On one hand, you get to claim your unique name. On the other hand, you have a lot of blank profiles that do not tell much about you and will register in search engines. It just creates noise.

I am having a hard time as it is keeping track of and updating a small number (18 ) of social networks (making sure profile information is accurate, links bank to http://aheram.com, making sure there is nothing on there that you do not want), adding 282 more to that list will just break me!