Dear Mr Richardson,
I do agree with you that making children more Googable is very important, but i do disagree on the fact that employers should only look on Google. Their are many other sites that havw information on people such as Yahoo or if you are looking for a job applicant Monster is a good site to. To me google is a site to help me find references for papers or large objects not for background information on an average person. It is not right for an employer to totally depend on Google.
While reading this blog I became interested in googling myself. What i found out was very disheartning their was no information about me at all. Their were videos of a fighter beating up people, whos name happened to be Sean Bowman. Other things like i was a professional golfer or that i was dead did not please my eyes either. About thirty pages through i found one of my myspace blogs which was just me ranting and raving about school. Now if an employer saw that he might think i have anger issues or some other ridiculous idea.
Friends of mine have myspaces and have some odd things on their myspace. They post bulletins saying that they hate the world and just want to die. Now if an employer saw any of these things he would be shocked and probably call a mental hospital instead of giving them a job. The problem with google is its to vast. The solution may just be having to use more reliable sites like Monster.com where the person can actually show you whats fact and whats fiction.
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