Technology Vessel

In addition to looking for critical information on Google, more than half of Internet users were also seeking information about themselves in the search engine service. That is one of the results of a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project of 2253 people in the country, Uncle Sam’s on August 18 and September 14, 2009.

The survey showed 57 percent of adults in the U.S. like to do a search on Google or commonly referred to googling himself. This amount is increased compared with the year 2006 amounted to 47 percent new.

When they do googling on their behalf, 63 percent say they find the information relevant to the information themselves, while 35 percent said the information received is irrelevant. On the first page of results, 31 percent say they do searches relevant to them, while 62 percent said that the first page of irrelevant results.

However, it does not mean that someone is googling himself doing the activity regularly. Only 2 percent who claimed that they regularly do so, 19 percent do so occasionally, and 78 percent do it once or twice only. In these searches, 42 percent claimed to find their own photographs. Narcissistic, too, yes. This was increased from 23 percent in 2006.

In googling things to do with himself, not infrequently they find things that they do not want. A total of four percent say they find the information that is not true of themselves. As many as 8 percent tried to delete the information belongs to them, such as photos and videos, because they do not want it.

The survey results also show that many adults in the U.S. who argue that the increasing importance of personal identity which is presented online. Approximately 33 per cent admitted they were worried about privacy on the internet revealed. However, this anxiety decreased from 40 percent in 2006. The majority of users, which is about 65 percent of the vote to change the settings of their accounts become more stringent and restrict the things what they can publish.

The survey results revealed that at the age of 18-29 years with 71 percent changing their privacy settings to be more stringent. Then at an advanced age, ie 50-64 years, as many as 50 percent chose to delete the photos and the comments that they do not want in their social networking site.

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