StopPATH WV

Big brother is watching you.  There's a fun (or rude, depending on results) little self-discovery tool making the rounds in social media circles that was promoted in a Business Insider article yesterday.

Google has been keeping track of your browsing habits and compiling demographics based on the websites you frequent and has determined your age and sex for the purposes of providing ad content targeted to your interests.

I'm a 55-64 year old male.  Holy Grecian Formula and Sansabelt slacks, Batman, I've turned into one of THEM!  *Note to self:  Must develop new online hobbies.

This is because my Google-determined target ad categories are:

Business & Industrial - Energy & Utilities
Business & Industrial - Energy & Utilities - Electricity
Internet & Telecom - Web Services - Search Engine Optimization & Marketing
Internet & Telecom - Web Services - Web Hosting & Domain Registration
News - Technology News
Reference - Geographic Reference - Maps - Traffic & Public Transit
World Localities - North America - USA - Mid-Atlantic (USA) - Pennsylvania
World Localities - North America - USA - South (USA) - West Virginia

I'm going to tell myself that's because my idea of a good time involves rolling this chair back and getting away from my inhuman task master.  Although... I wonder if there's an online Rorschach test I can use to try to counterbalance Google's unwelcome opinion of me?

Go ahead, try it.  I want to find out which one of you is living the internet life that is supposed to belong to me...