# Does anybody else ever search for themselves? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679 "2000-10-04T21:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679/21 "2000-10-05T19:48:06Z")
I like the idea to search for your own username to know if somebody is talking about you… but with my username that wouldn work… cause everybody calls me dodgy, and I d get a shitload of searchresults So even if I wanted to be paranoid, I coudlnt… _sigh_ the web is cruel. loons ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679/22 "2000-10-06T05:11:29Z")
Yes, and it’s depressing as hell to find out that most of “my” references are actually to _**(SEXUAL) DRY SPELLS**_!! :mad: 😕 ARGH!! ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sue)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679/23 "2000-10-08T19:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*I do worse. I occasionally search for my screen name in the text of the posts, to see if anyone is talking about me. The first time I did this there was a pit thread with my name in it :eek: When I read it I was very happy (not to mention relieved) to find that a poster had put me in a list of people that the poster admired. 🙂 I also found a couple of other threads that I hadn’t kept up on which said good things about me. :Insert tearfully happy smilie here: \*\* \*\*sub         [/sub]O         º       [sub](:()[/sub]         +         A         " \*\* ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679/24 "2000-10-09T02:03:30Z")
Yeah, I do the same thing Intriguing ? does. It’s the best way to keep track of threads to see if anyone has replied with something interesting. Given that I often can’t remember what I did yesterday, it’s nice to have search to tell me what threads I’ve been posting to. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679/25 "2000-10-09T05:05:03Z")
I don’t search old threads–I figure if they’re more than a few days old, then they’re dead. I generally just keep up with threads I’ve posted to the old fashioned way–if they’re on the first few pages, I’ll see them. I’ve run searches on myself a few times–this usually happens after I’ve found somebody invoking my name without telling me, which has happened two or three times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-else-ever-search-for-themselves/35679.md?page=1)