> This is a categorically false premise. The kind of statement that only makes sense when you're in a deep bubble and entirely removed from the average person's use of the internet.
I'm not convinced, though accept that this could be because I am in that bubble.
I can't imagine this average person searching for me on Google, finding nothing (which they won't, because I did the same as the author long ago), and concluding that there is nothing to find. Especially since nobody who has tried to find information about me after real life encounters has stopped at Google.
The more persistent ones did eventual find bits and pieces, but admittedly they were more technically inclined. Even so, none of them — technical or not — presumed that there _wasn't_ anything to find.
I'm not convinced, though accept that this could be because I am in that bubble.
I can't imagine this average person searching for me on Google, finding nothing (which they won't, because I did the same as the author long ago), and concluding that there is nothing to find. Especially since nobody who has tried to find information about me after real life encounters has stopped at Google.
The more persistent ones did eventual find bits and pieces, but admittedly they were more technically inclined. Even so, none of them — technical or not — presumed that there _wasn't_ anything to find.