Science speaks: Googling yourself is normal

In the current issue of Archaeology mag, a report on how people in the past spent their time with media. Using the density of grime on the pages of surviving books, we learn that medieval Dutch readers indulged a similar impulse:

In one manuscript that had been enhanced with custom illuminations, the owner primarily looked at pictures—in particular one that depicted the owner himself.

 They all spent quite a bit of their prayer-book time asking for protection from disease or the consequences of sin.

While technology has come a long way, it would be interesting to compare those findings with the most common themes of status updates...