I’ve had various posts recently about people that share my name. It’s really interesting to see other people that share my name. It’s intriguing to think about the idea that there’s another person with your name out there in the world living their own life. Is there anything that connects you to them other than their name?
The downside of people having your name is when people may do a search for you online, they may get some results that they didn’t expect (which could happen either way) and results for someone that’s not you.
A new website, ClaimID, has been developed to let a person claim their online identity by identifying and tagging various webpages that are about them. You can either specify that a specific page is definitely about you, or combat a page that is definitely not you, even though it’s your name.
Here’s my official “Jason Bean” page. You’ll also notice the MyClaimID badge over there on the right now too.
An interesting note, the Jason Bean second from the right is a fireman in Laconia, NH. My wife and I honeymooned in New Hampshire in that area. One night we were at a little Mexican restaurant / bar place and there was a plaque on the wall that a “Joe Bean” had won a jalapeno pepper eating contest there in 1984 or something. My grandfather’s, who I never really knew, name was Joe Bean. Isn’t that weird?
On a side note, don’t you just love the Citibank Identity Theft commercials?
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