As much as possible, you want to optimize what a trivial investigation of you brings up—like, for instance, an internet search with your name as the query. Putting anything anywhere under your real name cedes a lot of that control.
Actually it’s the other way around. If there nothing that you put up under your own name that’s well ranked it’s easy for someone else to put something up. Not putting up anything means having no control.
Perhaps I should have been more specific—every time you use your real name outside of a public-image building context, it becomes harder to build a public image associated with your name. I wasn’t trying to say that you should put nothing up—more that it should be something like what you’d expect a medical doctor’s official web page to look like. Not a stream of possibly controversial or misinterpreted posts on a web forum.
Actually it’s the other way around. If there nothing that you put up under your own name that’s well ranked it’s easy for someone else to put something up. Not putting up anything means having no control.
Perhaps I should have been more specific—every time you use your real name outside of a public-image building context, it becomes harder to build a public image associated with your name. I wasn’t trying to say that you should put nothing up—more that it should be something like what you’d expect a medical doctor’s official web page to look like. Not a stream of possibly controversial or misinterpreted posts on a web forum.