
This is not me. However, if you were looking for me on the internet this is one of the people you would find. Has he stolen my identity? No, but we happen to have the same name.
Have you ever looked yourself up on Google and found your “Google Twins”? In other words, using Google to find people with the same name as you and finding out what they do, what they have accomplished, etc. I had done this a few times a while back before I had this website and I was usually nowhere to be found on the internet. Now I show up, but so do many, many other Nathan Manleys. I thought I would use today to investigate the global phenomenon that is Nathan Manley and see what some of my (evil?) twins are up to.
One of the interesting things that the internet does is that it removes a lot of the location based solutions by which we communicate. There have always been people with the same names (since, lets face it…we are not too creative with naming our kids). For the millions of people with a name like “Dan Smith” or “Robert Jones” you could always tell which one you were talking about by their location. “oh you are talking about the Dan Smith from Springfield! I was thinking of the one in Centersville!” or “No, not Katie Jones on Elm Street, the one who lives on Spring Street” etc, etc
However, as the internet makes physical location less and less important you start to run into new problems. Instead of location based identity I think you will see a switch to action and relationship based identity (”oh, you mean Nathan Manley who is friends with ____ and is really interested in solar power?”). However, what if there is another Nathan Manley who used to play soccer? (there is). How does our new ability to find anyone anywhere affect our identity? I think it will become more and more of an issue the more information we put on the net…so we are only at the beginning. For instance, I wonder how many people will be looking for their friend Nathan Manley and come across this website, only to be disappointed (or pleasantly surprised)?
With that said, lets take a look at some other Nathan Manleys out there on the net:

Here is me (Nathan Manley)…if you are on this site reading this that means you are reading about me with words written by me. Good job! But wait, what about:

Nathan Manley!! Nathan is the head coach of the Rapid Area YMCA Swimmers in Grand Rapids Michigan. He seems moved to Grand Rapids from California in 2003, where he formerly taught English and the boys and girls swim team. Seems like this Nathan is upholding the Nathan Manley name pretty well! Lets see who else we can find.
Uh oh… This Nathan Manley appears to be dead! Born: Jul 15 1896 in Bath Co., KY Died: Aug 5 1978 Buried: Longview Cemetery, Bethel, Bath Co., KY. This could make an interesting road trip. RIP Nathan Manley…hope everything went well! You seem to have lived to the ripe old age of 82. Also of note, this Nathan Manley died a year before I was born…coincidence?
Here are a couple super smart Nathan Manleys. Apparently they made it through AP Physics…I’m glad some of us did!

Here is a soccer playing Welsh Nathan Manley. Actually I have seen pictures of him before in googling myself, I actually used to play soccer back in middle school and high school, but I’m guessing this Nathan Manley is better than I am.
If you are looking for a Nathan Manley to sell you a ceiling or a Nathan Manley who is a pretty good golfer or one who is good at chess or races cars they (we?) are out there.
Rockclimbing? You bet!

Drinking? Of course (oh wait, that’s actually me…how embarrassing!)
So it seems like if there is something to be done out in the world, Nathan Manley has a representative on the job. Although I am sad that another one of us got the Gmail name, I got the domain name! But hey other Nathan Manleys…don’t be afraid! I plan on upholding the great tradition of excellence that we seem to be developing here. If you are one of us feel free to let me know! Post below fellow Nathan Manley!
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