Really scary - get off this list
02-03-2011, 07:46 AM
#11
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Washington,State
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Originally Posted by craftyone27
A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. Thought the board members might be interested.
There's a site called spokeo.com that's a new online USA phone book with your personal info: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your credit score, home value and pix, income, age, children, etc. Remove yourself by searching for your name, copy the URL of your page, then go to the bottom right corner of the page, click the Privacy button to remove yourself.
I checked it out and found myself - really scary. Not all the info wascorrect but I didn't like the idea of even being on this list so I removed my profile. It only takes a few clicks to get off the list!
There's a site called spokeo.com that's a new online USA phone book with your personal info: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your credit score, home value and pix, income, age, children, etc. Remove yourself by searching for your name, copy the URL of your page, then go to the bottom right corner of the page, click the Privacy button to remove yourself.
I checked it out and found myself - really scary. Not all the info wascorrect but I didn't like the idea of even being on this list so I removed my profile. It only takes a few clicks to get off the list!
02-03-2011, 07:47 AM
#12
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Bend, Oregon
Posts: 157
Originally Posted by cjomomma
I'm laughing at this because they only had 2 things correct about me. Who my DH is and where we live. It said I don't have children and that my MIL lives with us (hmmm has h--l frozen over)? I wish we had the income stated because then I'd have more money for fabric. LOL!! I'm gonna look up my whole family.
02-03-2011, 07:53 AM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Murray, Ky. Looking for a nice cushy pillow to rest my head on!
Posts: 14,022
Originally Posted by Woolie
Originally Posted by cjomomma
I'm laughing at this because they only had 2 things correct about me. Who my DH is and where we live. It said I don't have children and that my MIL lives with us (hmmm has h--l frozen over)? I wish we had the income stated because then I'd have more money for fabric. LOL!! I'm gonna look up my whole family.
02-03-2011, 08:01 AM
#14
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bay Area near San Francisco
Posts: 1,213
Originally Posted by Mimito2
They have a great pic of my Barn, the house square footage & home value is for the barn. LOL If it were that big I would definitely have a shop and a long arm. Humm. Instead of building a cabin I could just finish out one end of the barn..... DH is not even listed...
02-03-2011, 03:51 PM
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 2,771
What scared me more was the part where it said, "click here" to remove yourself, and then once you did that, it asked for your email address!!!!
I'm thinking, "why", so you can add it to my information that you aren't going to delete.
Mine's not accurate either, but I figure, they must have gathered it from somewhere else on the web, so even if you get it deleted off their site, it is still available someplace else.
I'm thinking, "why", so you can add it to my information that you aren't going to delete.
Mine's not accurate either, but I figure, they must have gathered it from somewhere else on the web, so even if you get it deleted off their site, it is still available someplace else.
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