It is way too easy to find people on the internet.<\/p>\n
I wanted to see if I could find an old friend’s phone number.\u00a0 She hadn’t given it to me, but I know from her myspace blog she’s having a rough time right now.\u00a0 So just for fun, I looked up her name and state on Google.<\/p>\n
Presto.<\/p>\n
And just to verify my result, I looked up her husband’s name and state.\u00a0 Same address.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 Guess that’s it.<\/p>\n
Freaky.<\/p>\n
So I looked up my own. \u00a0 Sure enough.\u00a0 Google has an option that lets you take your name out of their phone book, and yes, I did.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 It’s not that easy to get your name out of whitepages.com or reverse lookup, or any number of sites like that.<\/p>\n
And really.\u00a0 If someone is that serious about finding you, there is always Peoplefinder.\u00a0 For a small fee, you can find almost anyone.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 I used it to track down old classmates 2 years ago for our 10 yr non-reunion thing.\u00a0 I found all but one of my 7 classmates (small private highschool).\u00a0 and the one I couldn’t find, I tracked him to Boulder Colorado, where he went to school after he joined the Air Force, and then he dropped off the grid.<\/p>\n
None of this is new information to me.\u00a0 But every now and then it blows my mind how extremely easy it really is to locate people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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