I used to think that my first name afforded me an amount of uniqueness in the world. I never really met a lot of Shanes, let alone a lot of Shane Adamses. But just my luck…there are like half a dozen of them that are active on the internet.
- The Realtor, (who snagged the vanity URL from all of us a long time ago)
- The musician and author,
- The storm chaser,
- …and now the teenage fiction writer from Philadelphia (who is also on Tumblr)
Great.
Now I realize that I’m probably not doing myself any favors, since I’m currently fourth on the Magnificent Google List despite having been online for longer than all of them.
But I just can’t help myself.
(reposted from my Tumblr)
This is one of the reasons I reserved my kids’ domain names a few years ago. It’s like a real estate investment. In fact, we’re using laurengibson.net right now for her soccer profile.
There is one other Celeste Lindell. She lives in Florida, golfs, and works in PR. It’s pretty easy to tell us apart.
You should sue them. Make them change their internet names. Clame the “I WAS HERE FIRST!” rule.
Unfortunately, there are a TON of Sarah Crowley’s – there’s even a facebook group of them – and I think there were a lot of other Sarah Thatcher’s too. It doesn’t help that ‘Sarah’ by itself is an incredibly popular name. I’ve never been able to get my name as an email address or user name for anything.
Shane, I always thought I was the only MacKenzie out there for a long time, too. I think we, the trendsetters, should have first rights and patents on our names. Is that unreasonable? ;)
There’s also a Shane Adams who’s a middle-age style jouster.