But what is the most embarrassing thing that you have found about yourself on this project?

Oh, easily 200 live journal posts. That was, yeah, without question.

And those are like diary entries, essentially?

We're not talking about the content today.

I'm Christine Zier-Cleset.

I'm Kaira Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garan, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

This episode is called Can You Really Disappear Online?

Hi. Hi.

Hi.

It's just us today.

I know it feels so weird.

Rosie is out again.

So I thought this would be a great opportunity.

There's a vast difference in age between you and me.

Okay.

And I'm going to ask you a very gen Gen Xer asks a Gen Zier, a question.

Okay. How much of your life is online? Like, what's your footprint online? I am embarrassed to say

that I've tried really hard to make sure a lot of me is online. Like, I Google myself constantly to make sure that my

efforts are not in vain. Like, what is it? How many search page results are actually about you?

All of them. Okay. It helps that I have a really nice, unique name, but yeah, it's all me.

I think that only two pages of Google are about me. I have a pretty small footprint. You know, I've been a journalist for over 20 years, so there's a certain amount of my work that's online. But for the last maybe 10, 15 years, I've been pretty guarded online. And so I suspect, well, you know what, actually, I was really surprised recently. I googled myself and I was kind of surprised by how much information was online.

...