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www.spokeo.com

This website allows anyone to all your personal information for three dollars. They can find where you live, how old you are, where you live, and your realitives. This is a whole new level of scary.
Kim Site Admin

Ahh, the inevitable consequence of combining the yellow pages with social media and ever more powerful search engines.

This site uses info taken from yellow pages and social media profiles, most notably Facebook. You can mitigate what sites like this can find out about you by opting out of having your number published in the yellow pages when you purchase the number (Occasionally there's a small fee for that, like $3), and by setting your info to private on Facebook -- it helps if your friends and relatives do the same. Not sure what you can do about marriage licenses and other civil documents, if your county is one of those that stores records online! But people shed personal info all over the web. It's super convenient and useful when you want to easily find friends near you, but also a little alarming when you realize that the things you do get stored roughly forever.

Prior to sites like this, you'd have to do your own searches on Facebook, the yellow pages, and various government sites like the census and public marriage/divorce records -- this site essentially does multiple google searches on your behalf.

They had a lot of info about me, but much of it was out of date -- like landlines that I got bundled with internet in college, but never plugged a phone in for (meaning I was technically the owner of the number, but there was never a time when it was possible to contact me by it!) They also had some stuff flat out wrong, like it has me listed as married, and it includes some email addresses that I've never seen before.

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