Googel Me.....

Since I always use my nickname JuJu I didn't think I'd find as much as I did. I googled my real name Judith Marquez and found only 35 others with the same name as me. The white pages appeared and I began to look through the list to find myself. There I saw my current age and the address to the previous college I attended. Then, there was a link to view more information of myself. There I saw all my relatives listed by both their maiden and married last names. It gave all previous locations where I had lived throughout the years. Lastly, there was a link with a check mark next to my current full address. Once clicked one is able to purchase my full address for a fee. This is extremely scary. I am not comfortable with the fact that just anyone out there and pay a fee of $10 to get my current location. It's not like it just has my address but also lists my entire family and all places in which I had resided at are at anyone's disposal. I could try and unlist myself but I'd have to pay a fee and still that is only to remove my telephone number. A person could even run a background check on me for another fee. Marriage records, divorce records, bankruptcies and much more information can be paid to view by anyone who is willing to pay. Realistically speaking once your information is out there in the web world there is really no way of removing it. I could find every which way to try and delete my complete existence from the web but in the back of my mind I know that this information is stored for life in some database out there. So much for privacy nowadays. After seeing all this information of myself online I realize that privacy is and maybe always was nonexistent. Before computer existed there were still issues of privacy but in today's society they should strip this word from the human vocabulary for this word holds no weight and means nothing to me much anymore.