me on the web
I got a call today from some dude named Sam. He said he wanted to go climbing, which I thought was cool, but strange because I don’t know any Sams I don’t think. He swore he’d met Ben Pope climbing Squamish, though. Since I’ve never been climbing in Squamish there was obviously some miscommunication going on…
It made me curious, though. Turns out, if you google “ben pope climbing” four of the first ten hits lead to me, so apparently my web presence is getting larger thanks in large part to various sorts of social networking. Two of the hits were from twitter, one from LinkedIn, and one directly to my resume, which has my phone number on it. I assume this is how Sam came to call me instead of the Ben Pope who he was really looking for. I kinda wish I was this other Ben Pope…I did a little stalking and found some photos of him sending v8s and flashing v7s.
It’s interesting how we think google can be so useful, but it’s like any other tool, really. It’s only as smart as the people that use it.