It’s been up and running since November last year, so it came as a bit of a shock when I noticed the number of views on my Google Maps CV had shot up from around 15 to over 5000 last Monday afternoon.
Don’t get me wrong – I love that people are interested in what I’ve been up to. I’m just glad I’d taken down the sections about getting my nose broken in a Leeds nightclub or being arrested in New York for drinking in the street while wearing guyliner.
But the thing I found most amusing was the bizarre game of online chinese whispers that broke out between bloggers. First of all it was Man hosts CV on Google Maps. Pretty accurate this one, but quickly succeeded by Unemployed man hosts CV on Google Maps. For the record, I’m not unemployed, but I can forgive the error considering I had a CV that was quickly winging it’s way across the ether. Next came Unemployed man hosts CV on Google Maps, and promptly gets hired! Perhaps the most intriguing story, but also the least accurate.
So what next? Unemployed man hosts CV on Google Maps, gets hired, gets promoted, enforces management buyout and retires? How about Unemployed man hosts CV on facebook, prompting 5,000 job offers from drunk teenagers who vandalise his career by spraying graffiti on his education and throwing up all over his interests?
Still, you can’t blame people for trying to make a story sound interesting. Employed copywriter remains employed isn’t exactly tabloid fodder. And I can’t deny that what will inevitably become tomorrow’s virtual chip paper was a lot of fun while it lasted.
