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Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

by the way..im having issues with my user id. Had to change it.

 

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Anonymous
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

Mine didn't show up in Google for four months. Only once our house went ito foreclosure and a sheriff's sale was scheduled. It does stink, I agree.

 

But when I feel huminilated about it, I remember WHY i filed, and what the crcumstances were. I can sleep at night knowing that I wasn't trying to cheat the system. It just didn't work out for us in the real estate market.

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Anonymous
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

Please don't take this as me saying you brought this on yourself... but you did not do yourself any favors by repeatedly "googling" yourself.  

 

Keep in mind how Google works.  Every time someone does a search on a subject on Google (and other search engines), the search engine spins up a dedicated application that starts crawling the web looking for information on that subject.  It does not, it cannot, find everything about a subject on the first search.  But, the more often a subject is "googled", the more information Google gathers on that subject.  That is how Google is able to return to you millions of records from across the world on popular subjects in only milliseconds.  

 

So, by googling yourself on a regular basis, you actually helped Google builds up a larger volume of available information about you.  The bright side is, Google can't afford to keep all the information it finds about everything at ready reference forever.  Stop searching for yourself and let the subject grow stale.  The volume of information will eventually begin to degrade over time.  

 

It's a sad Catch 22.  You won't know how accessible your BK records are unless you search for them, but the act of searching for them will make them easier to find.  Smiley Sad

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Anonymous
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

You took the words out of my mouth. I Google my name and my heart fell to my feet, I'm mortified. I filed when I lost my job in 08' . It said it was posted in 14'
I feel you pain
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Anonymous
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

I just googled my sister's name + bankruptcy, it shows what chapter she filed, when it was filed and discharged, her entire name and complete address!

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jim44
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

When I switched email boxes from Excite to Gmail, I tried the option of having all of my mail automatically sent from Excite to Gmail. Google is my home page and instead of typing my email address in the gmail box, I typed in the search line.  The first thing that came up was my question of how to import my Excite mail to Gmail. The whole conversation was there including the answer for anyone to read.

I sold a condo and signed the closing papers for my partner using a POA.. It was an embarassing short sale and the title agent wanted a copy of the POA.  As I live in Florida it's all public info and the full image of the POA is on the Clerk of Court website for everyone to see.  I petitioned the court to have at least the POA sealed and was denied. 

In this day and age everything is public... and I mean all your personal information.  The more you use social media, the more exposed you will be.... unfortunately. 

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Scupra
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Re: Just googled my name and my BK filing on internet :( Feel like crying

Word of caution - the more you Google yourself, the more relevant you become. Stop looking Smiley Happy

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