The Google

I was at a picnic yesterday that was thrown by one of my (former?) co-workers and learned that someone in my office had googled me up at some point and found out about my past. I'm not sure exactly how many people this information circulated through, but it was at least a few people who I had *no* idea that they knew.

I wasn't really upset that they found out - I've always known that information about my past was just a quick google away. I'd wondered in past positions if anyone had figured it out but never had any reason to think they did. Based on how this group of co-workers reacted to it, I'm not sure I would've known if anyone had found out.

It sounds like people were surprised, but didn't really think it was that big of a deal. They thought it was a bigger deal that I hadn't mentioned anything to them but I'm not sure exactly how they thought that sort of thing would come up in normal day-to-day conversation at work.

Anyhow, this was an interesting sociological event in my life that I'm glad turned out to be a non-event for the most part. Even though it's an "open secret" that I'm not really ashamed of or anything, it's just not that big of an issue in my life anymore and I'm glad it didn't turn into one.