Something to get your creative juices flowing this fine first day of Spring: A story about finding your “Google Twin”—a person with the same name as you who is hogging all the search results:
Rebecca Roush Googled herself, expecting to be rewarded with a list of her own accomplishments. Instead, she was introduced to some other Rebecca Roush, a limelight-stealing, attention-hogging, overachieving Rebecca Roush who selfishly dominated the entries.
She had discovered her Google twin — that person who shares her name and her Google entry, and with whom she is saddled in the annals of Internet history like siblings forced to share a room.
“There is something offsetting about finding your Google twin,” the Davis, Calif., resident says in an e-mail. “It’s like all of your attempts at individuality get swept away.”
This is true – unless you are the dominant Google Twin. As I happen to be. There are other John Scalzis out there – a weatherman in Florida, a middle-weight boxer in Pennsylvania – but I’m the one clogging up the Internets with my Googlation. None of the other John Scalzis have tried to kill me yet. But the year is still early.
Have fun with this idea—ficlet away!
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