There isn't anything WRONG with this, it's just a little weird. See, I have a small Facebook "problem." If you look at the Google image search results for Facebook, you will get an idea as to why. That profile screenshot is mine... and some days it floats at the number one result. It's also in the first page of search results for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Why? Because back when I was working on the Web 2.0 Awards for SEOmoz.org, I used that screenshot to illustrate my interview with a Facebook employee. The Web 2.0 Awards got a lot of notice and a lot of links, thereby rising rapidly in the SERPS (such is the "magic" of SEO). So my screenshot, which Google associated with "Facebook" and "Mark Zuckerberg," got a lot of 'street cred' in the image search.
(Google image searches are weird, a friend once told me that she was searching for "dish cloth patterns" or something like that and my picture came up on page 2...)
Some people have friended me asking how I did this and why my profile shows up in an image search, but this is only a prelude to the real oddity. Apparently, and probably for lack of a better source, the image has been appropriated by several publications, all of them foreign. Let's see if I can find a few examples:
Do you know that you were on newspaper in Turkey. Check it out at (address removed because link no longer works) Actually it's just a small article on growing interest for FaceBook in Turkey. There's nothing about your personal info or photo.
hey !!! How's life
i searched 4 u coz ur profile were in an article about facebook in a journal... r u famous zat much 4 posting ur profile in a jounal
i saw ur profile on a news paper
i was visiting egypt two days ago on a vavaction tour to the pyramids
and i saw it by accident
never knew u were true lol
And most recently, someone sent me a link to this article. Have a look and through to page nine.
It's an odd sort of notoriety, and it certainly doesn't bother me. I get maybe one or two messages a week from someone who looks me up on facebook after seeing my profile somewhere. It's a bit strange, however, to think about all the people who are probably passing through who DON'T say anything. To them, I would like to just say that yes... I am "true."
Heh.
Posted on November 08, 2007 @ 9:02 PM | 4 comments
Comments:
the internet is a fucking weird place.
By 
, at
10:22 PM, November 08, 2007
tru dat.
By 
Kat, at
10:54 PM, November 08, 2007
geez, you'd think that they could have at least blocked out your name in those screenshots when repurposing it! wow, you must get a lot of traffic.
By gleek, at
1:51 PM, November 10, 2007
This had me laughing out loud. Sorry, it's scary and funny at the same time.
You could milk it on your résumé, saying you've "contributed" to news papers all over the world.
By Louie, at
9:10 PM, November 10, 2007
