When people visit one of the large social networking websites and does a search for your name, does the account that comes up belong to you? Sometimes yes, and depending on how in demand your name is, sometimes no. Darren Rowse at Problogger offers up some excellent insights about securing your name early on the social networking services, using Seth Godin’s (fake) Twitter account as an example. In a completely different scenario, that Twitter account could have been used to do some damage before being shut down; thank goodness it was simply being used as a means to aggregate Seth’s blog entries. Take a lesson from this, the moment you hear of a new social networking service, get your name — even if it just sits dormant because you can’t be certain that the person who does register it has good intentions.