ABSTRACT
According to the web information company Alexa, Google is the most visited website in the world, followed closely by Facebook. While social networks like Facebook may be unwieldy with regard to their privacy settings, there is, none the less, more than just an illusion of control over what a person chooses to share and with whom to share it. With regard to the information that is found on a Google search, one can find a distinction between an intentionally packaged web presence that an individual might have created via their own personal or professional website, and all the other information that might be found on the Internet about them that is outside that person’s control. Virtual impingements are not limited to Google searches, they extend to any kind of information-seeking for known or unknown others, or even ourselves, searches occurring outside an intersubjective setting.
