If you are on academia.edu, how often do you get messages from it that somebody has searched for you? I made the mistake of starting an academia.edu profile a while ago, and now I get these notifications every day. I haven’t been updating that profile or visiting it at all, yet I keep getting informed of these searches.
The idea that people Google me (not me, the blogger, as you understand, but the RL me) every day is extremely unnerving. I don’t have an important name in my field just yet (and at the rate this stupid manuscript goes I never will), so it isn’t fellow academics. Neither would my students engage in such searches. At least, not on a daily basis.
This is why I’m wondering if this is normal. Please share how often academia.edu informs you that you have been Googled. I’m getting really paranoid here.
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