I was recently having a little debate with Diana over at the Digital Natives blog about我最近有一个小的辩论与戴安娜超过在数字土生土长的博客约 how best to manage online identities as a teenager如何最有效地管理在线身份,作为一名少年 , inspired by Lifehacker’s ,灵感来自lifehacker的 recent post最近邮政 about managing digital reputations.关于管理数字化的声誉。 My main point of agreement was about ‘becoming the source’ for information about yourself, and how important it is to maintain a high-profile place for positive information control.我的主要出发点的协议是关于'成为源' ,为您的个人信息,以及如何重要,它是维持一个高姿态的地方,积极的信息控制。 I do that very well with this website–google ’sam jackson’ and you’ll see I’m the fourth result–but right before I saw Diana’s post, I had decided I wanted to cover some other bases.我认为非常好,这个网站的Google山姆杰克逊' ,你会看到我第四次的结果,而是权利之前,我看到了戴安娜的职位,我已决定我想包括其他一些基地。

It’s midterms time here at Yale, and while some people like to go out and shop or buy things to de-stress some, I opted for another route: buying a few domain names.它的midterms时间,这里在耶鲁,而有些人喜欢走出去商店或买东西,以去除压力,一些,我选择了另一种路线:买几个域名。 I went to gratuitous lengths to try to acquire a few I’ve been negotiating over for ages, with continued failure.我去无偿长度设法取得一些我一直在谈判,为的年龄,与继续失败。 But I did go ahead and buy但我确实要大胆向前并且购买 www.SamuelAJackson.com www.samuelajackson.com and www.SamuelABJackson.com www.samuelabjackson.com . I remain bitter that I don’t have the funds to acquire samjackson.com, or samueljackson.com, etc.我仍然痛苦,我没有足够的资金收购samjackson.com ,或samueljackson.com等。

I wish I had been a little older–or a lot wiser–when I was younger, because I would be a lot richer now for my domain purchases if that had been the case.我希望我已有点老了很多,或明智的-当我还是年轻,因为我有很多丰富的,现在我的域名的购买,如果已经如此。 But, in case anyone is ever searching for my full name, I now have some good insurance.但是,在任何情况下,是以往任何时候都寻找我的全名,我现在有一些很好的保险。 These wouldn’t really rank, of course, and I will just have them redirect back here for now.这些不会真的排名,当然,我将只是他们重新回到这里,现在。 Still–pays to try to cover as many angles as possible, and it’s really pretty cheap.仍然自付尝试涵盖多方面的作为可能的,并且它的真的很漂亮便宜。 Certainly a much lower down payment now than there will be later, if you have to try to buy a domain off someone or do damage control from high-ranking bad PR.当然低得多的首期付款比现在会有后,如果您有尝试购买一个域名小康有人或做损害控制,从高级将领坏的公关。

For a good place to start investigating how to control your public identity online, check out both that一个良好的地方展开调查,如何控制您的公开身份在线,请双方认为, lifehacker post lifehacker后 and danah boyd’s和danah博伊德的 musings on the subject last fall musings关于这一主题的去年秋天 .