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[Sushismom]

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@MalteseMomma wrote:

google your own name and sadly,  you will see lots of QVC info..............

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None with my name.

[Porcelain]

If you give out a lot of personal information in your posts. Like the small town you live in. Your family history and structure. The places you've lived. The type of work you do. Your age. Your birthday. Pictures of yourself. Details about other family members. That info can be collected and  cross referenced with purchased info from advertising and political databases and various personal info/interest data collectors like Facebook.

If you post enough detail about your life here, someone can figure out who you are by a process of elimination. Now why anyone would want to...maybe you revealed that you know an important person that the bad guy wants to influence, or demonstrated that you have a high income, or that you have lots of assets and seem unconcerned about security...Most os us are not interesting enough. But this one way a few unlucky people get targeted by bad people for scams and worse.

[froggy]

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@MalteseMomma wrote:

google your own name and sadly,  you will see lots of QVC info..............

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I must be incredibly unimportant or dull as dishwater because nothing even related to me comes up when I google my real name. If I attach my city and state to the search all that comes up are public records like real estate.

[threecees]

If you google your name and then add qvc after it, it may show some

of your info.

[NickNack]

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@Sushismom wrote:

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@MalteseMomma wrote:

google your own name and sadly,  you will see lots of QVC info..............

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None with my name.

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@Sushismom   @MalteseMomma   No QVC information comes up when I Google my name either.

[MrsSB]

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@Porcelain wrote:

If you give out a lot of personal information in your posts. Like the small town you live in. Your family history and structure. The places you've lived. The type of work you do. Your age. Your birthday. Pictures of yourself. Details about other family members. That info can be collected and  cross referenced with purchased info from advertising and political databases and various personal info/interest data collectors like Facebook.

If you post enough detail about your life here, someone can figure out who you are by a process of elimination. Now why anyone would want to...maybe you revealed that you know an important person that the bad guy wants to influence, or demonstrated that you have a high income, or that you have lots of assets and seem unconcerned about security...Most os us are not interesting enough. But this one way a few unlucky people get targeted by bad people for scams and worse.

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In a discussion about a famous artist of the past, I made a comment that my DIL was in the process of working on a musical project about the artist. Someone recognized who she was so I guess by that she could find me too. But I don't think I have much to worry about. 

[Porcelain]

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@MrsSB wrote:

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@Porcelain wrote:

If you give out a lot of personal information in your posts. Like the small town you live in. Your family history and structure. The places you've lived. The type of work you do. Your age. Your birthday. Pictures of yourself. Details about other family members. That info can be collected and  cross referenced with purchased info from advertising and political databases and various personal info/interest data collectors like Facebook.

If you post enough detail about your life here, someone can figure out who you are by a process of elimination. Now why anyone would want to...maybe you revealed that you know an important person that the bad guy wants to influence, or demonstrated that you have a high income, or that you have lots of assets and seem unconcerned about security...Most os us are not interesting enough. But this one way a few unlucky people get targeted by bad people for scams and worse.

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In a discussion about a famous artist of the past, I made a comment that my DIL was in the process of working on a musical project about the artist. Someone recognized who she was so I guess by that she could find me too. But I don't think I have much to worry about. 

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I don't think fellow posters would be the problem. The problem is that all of the forum pages are indexed and they do come up in searches. And that's for anyone to see.

We are probably safe. I just cringe sometimes when I see very detailed personal info in posts. There are a few of my own posts I would probably do well to go back and clean up or get rid of because I shared maybe too much, but I don't have time to read through all that. It is what it is.

[MrsSB]

@Porcelain I agree. I was a little startled is all when the poster knew who my DIL was. 

[froggy]

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@threecees wrote:

If you google your name and then add qvc after it, it may show some

of your info.

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There is no reason on earth my name would be associated with QVC in the public realm. I am not on ANY social media and I do not use my real name on any other blogs where I comment.

[Nonametoday]

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@Nataliesgramma wrote:

Unless law enforcement gets a warrant to look at someones posts.....

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@Nataliesgramma 

You can bet your bottom dollar Google has already had our names, addresses and phone numbers and like Facebook sold them to everybody who wanted them.  That is the reason it is free to post on Facebook and Twitter --- no fee.  They just sell your information.  But you did sign up for that.