What Town Are You?
Sunday, February 25th, 2007One of the most frequently mailed New York Times articles today is about social security numbers and how insecure they are. Surprise! The article details how SS numbers have ended up on public display through state and county record offices.
Curious, I entered my SS number into Google and ran a search. Nothing turned up, but Google asked me if I meant #####-####, i.e. it had regrouped my SS number into nine-digit zip code format. So I clicked and found out what “my town” is. I would tell you here, but of course that would be kind of dumb, now wouldn’t it? Suffice it to say, I’ll be headed to the beach.
So check it out for yourself - google-map (note that there is no capital ‘g’ when ‘google’ is used as a verb) your SS number and find out what town you are today.