Vanity Search: Do YOU do it?

The other day I was in the computer lab with a friend doing some math homework. I got my work done before he did, so i had a little bit of free time to play around on the computer. As I was browsing through the world wide web, I remembered a website my proffesor had talked about during class. It was called peekyou.com, a vanity search engine.

In class, we had discussed how EVERYONE, in one way or another is listed somewhere on the internet. One student argued that they are not on the internet in anyway, so they kindly volunteered to be searched on google. The proffesor searched the student's name and it came up! The student was in shock. He couldn't believe it.

The proffesor went on and continued the search, except this time he used peekyou.com. I was in amazement as the student's name came up and showed where he lived and who he was related to. The website even has an option were you can in a way "stalk" the vanity search.

In a way, no one in the world is completely anonymous (at least on the world wide web). It amazes me how easy it is to find someone on the internet. Now I look at it and think, the physical world as we know it has shrunk. Everyone knows everyone, creepy, huh?