Spokeo: Stalking Made Easy
This is creepy! My boyfriend showed me this and it freaked me out, but I'm glad I know about it.
Spokeo is basically a site where you can look up someone's online activity just by typing in their email, name, phone number, username, etc. I looked up my email and it showed me a picture of my house… Scary!
So just in case you have ever, even once, given out your personal email, phone number, real name, etc. to a customer (or even if you haven't…) I would highly suggest going to Spokeo.com and removing yourself from their listings.
Here's how:
1. Go to spokeo.com
2. Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Privacy"
3. Enter the URL of the profile you want removed (look yourself up and copy the URL)
4. Enter your email and the code to prove you're not a robot
5. Look in your email and confirm! Done!
I think all dancers should be aware of sites like this… if you know of any others, please post them!! Thanks :)
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a little bit creepy, but i just did a search of all my shit and nothing came up except the town in which my phone number existed. it's a town of 100,000 that i don't live in anymore, so i'm not concerned
although the thing that weirds me out a bit, is it found my old usernames for my myspace and devart and shit. this could be kinda creepy if you don't keep a low online profile.
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Yeah, this is a bit wierd, i thought id be exempt cause im in the UK but results from an old myspace came up and my boys did too, complete with pictures etc! Wierd and so not good! Thanks for the alert! :D xx
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Wow thats creepy. Thank you for sharing. I found myself on there and removed myself ASAP.
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Yeah I just thought it was ultra-creepy that my address and a pic of my house showed up… not cool. It seems like it can only access what's already public information, so it's also a good way of knowing what parts of your info are public, so that you can edit something if you feel unsafe (which I would do even if I wasn't a dancer).
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Yup, I saw this on a tv show months ago. It's amazing what u can find out just with a name. The Internet age is scary man.
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Thanks.. I search around my number, usernames, old e-mails.. etc nothing.. Woo. Im glad. Just my ebay account popped up, that I dont mind.
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Ew I did it an found old addresses of mine. I did the removal thing Skai said in the first post.
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That site is way off. It listed me as Republican and married. Oh and mid 40's (I am 39).
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My name didn't bring anything up, but my email brought up my Dad's address in the UK.
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I hate that site. Someone showed it to me a few months ago. I always use aliases online & have a really common name. This was the only site with my real info. I contacted them & had it removed. I'm happy to see that it's still gone.
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This creeps me out. Some girls were talking about this in the dressing room. I put in my old email address and it comes up with a lot of personal information. I don't like this and I can't get my information removed because I no longer have that email. I contacted them to see if they can still remove me.
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Nothing came up on me, but I actually use it for work to search potential clients.
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Originally Posted by
julzgulz
I put in my old email address and it comes up with a lot of personal information. I don't like this and I can't get my information removed because I no longer have that email. I contacted them to see if they can still remove me.
same with me! its freakin me out!
hopefully they can remove it
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Where is the CODE???? So much shit to remove oh my fucking god Im EVERYWHERE!!!!