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Originally Posted by archipelago
I read another post about someone googling their own name here and it coming up. I tried my screen name with just the abbreviation "psych" and all of my posts were right at the top. I had no idea. It's giving me pause.
And here of all places where we are sharing details of our therapy sessions and relationships to our therapists…I don't know. It makes me self-conscious.
I still want to post what I want but I wonder if I should edit myself more.
Did you all realize that these posts are just "out there"?
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Yes, I'm very conscious that everything I post here is going to be searchable in various search engines. It's another reason why PC is not a "safe" place. We might address our posts to a group of people we have gotten to know reasonably well, but as the years pass, every thread is read by hundreds of people who never log in (although many of those "people" are search engine robots who index each and every thread.) Everything we write here is essentially public, and the posting archives are indexed and searchable just as much as the most recent threads are.
Neither my current user name nor my previous name are usernames I have used anywhere else, and I avoid writing things like the names of my pets, or other things that could potentially lead people I know to this site. But I'm always worried about it anyway.