Social Media Overload
Right, so I knew Google knew everything there was to know about each and every one of us.
However, as I was using the browser that I DON'T use for any sort of 'social media' activity, having the big G know all of my accounts as soon as I tried to find anything out about how the whole Google Webmaster/Analytics stuff works was quite scary.
I apparently had a Gmail account. Because of YouTube? But YouTube didn't have the Gmail account as the registered email, I think I signed up for it before the purchase, so it took quite a bit to sign in since Google kept wanting their email account and not my other one.
And then I get into the big G itself and it started to invite me to share my G+ (which I didn't have, but do now) with my Twitter...which it shouldn't have known. So, I got to go digging again to see what exactly they shared that gave the game anyway (it appeared to be nothing since they weren't even the same email or password and the profiles where empty, but the username matched YouTube so I'm blaming it on that).
And then Tumblr, and then Pinterest, and then....something and something. It's been a long 9 hours of digging through what Google should know, and what they can see even though none of my accounts ever shared prior to 40 minutes ago. [I always have gone old school, if I want the same topic on multiple sites I copy/paste separately] I think the only things I was able to save from total domination were my fb and Lin (primary job, if I can get healthy enough to go back, wouldn't be happy with entangled accounts).
In the middle of all of this, I start getting weird notifications on my phone. Which of course has never been registered with a Gmail account, but is an Android. So, I get to call my provider tomorrow because I can do everything except actually sign into and use my phone account on my phone. It doesn't even recognize my email login, but it's only ever known one. Yay. Not a conversation I'm looking forward to.
And then pulling my full name off of stuff (which was only buried deep in a single account and nowhere else), since the big G tried to add it to things that I don't want my students to find (not actually embarrassing, just geeky - I have a love for John Barrowman that started back in his "I Am What I Am" era, and Isaac Jaffe is my hero).
Wow wow wow wow wow. The big G IS full-bore Big Brother, isn't it?
I'm not trying to complain, I'm just using this space to try to untangle everything that's happened since I initially went 'hey, I wonder why I'm still not Indexed with Google? Am I missing a step?' Such a small question, that has lead me on a merry chase. I actually still don't know the answer, but that's going to be a problem for after I can access my phone account again.
If anyone is reading: Did any of this happen to you? Was all your stuff interconnected even if you shut off sharing? Was I dumb to just go with it and connect everything together?
edit: crossposting seems to have worked, I've been indexed!
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Sounds like quite the journey . I set up new emails and new social media accounts for each website so that way it is the relevant niche topics being shared
I will probably try that if I ever get to a point where I start another niche. For right now, I had already been trying to process too much information at once, so just going through the basic steps seemed to work for this one (and my niche isn't one that's separate from my personal life so I don't mind it being directly connected - I did give it its own email though).
Thanks for the help on getting indexed!
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Wow. You have really been in it. I actually used different emails for different platforms so that i could keep track a little less techily so I didnt go through all of that.
Well in my case hindsight is 20/20, I guess.
Fortunately (unfortunately?) I now have a much better understanding of how everything works.
And hey, I got indexed (although that really has to be credited to the advice JoshfromOz gave me).