Ego Surfing

I have decided that with all the internet jargon floating around the internet I would add to it with one more. The term is Ego Surfing.

Ego Surfing is something that we all do time to time, but never really thought of it as name worthy. Essentially it is the act of trying to look up information about your self while you're on-line.

"How is this done?" you ask.

Simple, all you do is go into your favorite search engine and type in your name. First and last, age and state, so on and so on. The more specific the fewer the sites.

Now granted this is simply boredom incarnate, and you usually don't find anything about your self, but that's not the point. This is done primarily to find stuff. And there are plenty of times that you'll find weird or even creepy stuff.

I've had friends find numerous porn sites using their names and such, but nothing creeped me out more than when I found my self dead. Well, not really me, but damned if it wasn't close. There was a kid up in Idaho with my name, and roughly my age that was killed in a murder suicide. His description fit me nearly to a "T". (Except for the whole being dead thing.)

So now you've learned a new term, enjoy.

EGO SURFING: the act of looking up one's own name and personal information on the internet only to see what will result of the search.


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