Re: Personal Information

SydneyH · ‎03-10-2010

@cody2 wrote:

Lilac, it isn't very wise to put that challenge out here. Someone, or several someones, may just take you up on it. Not a snark. Just some friendly advice.

Good advice because even a novice hacker can do quite a bit of damage from a photo. Guess some need to learn that the hard way.

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

@cody2 wrote:
@LilacTree wrote:
At the time of the revision of this forum, QVC recommended that we all post our personal photos as our avatars. Some of us did, but most did not and still do not.

Obviously, my avatar is a photo of me. I have right-clicked on it and there is no connection to google wherein someone can find out personal information about me. Perhaps it's a question of which browser one uses. I use IE 7.

I would not mind at all, if someone here has the interest, that they click on my avatar and post back here all of the personal information about me they may find.

Personally, I would never even consider doing that to someone, as I have absolutely no interest in the personal information of anyone here. But obviously others feel differently.

Therefore, as I said, feel free to find me via my avatar. It would be interesting to see if that can actually work.
Lilac, it isn't very wise to put that challenge out here. Someone, or several someones, may just take you up on it. Not a snark. Just some friendly advice.

Hi @cody2,

I think that it's possible that people sometimes forget that internet forums can be viewed from all over, depending on how the forum is set up, and whether the forum is public or private.

september · ‎03-09-2010

@LilacTree wrote:
@cody2 wrote:
@LilacTree wrote:
At the time of the revision of this forum, QVC recommended that we all post our personal photos as our avatars. Some of us did, but most did not and still do not.

Obviously, my avatar is a photo of me. I have right-clicked on it and there is no connection to google wherein someone can find out personal information about me. Perhaps it's a question of which browser one uses. I use IE 7.

I would not mind at all, if someone here has the interest, that they click on my avatar and post back here all of the personal information about me they may find.

Personally, I would never even consider doing that to someone, as I have absolutely no interest in the personal information of anyone here. But obviously others feel differently.

Therefore, as I said, feel free to find me via my avatar. It would be interesting to see if that can actually work.
Lilac, it isn't very wise to put that challenge out here. Someone, or several someones, may just take you up on it. Not a snark. Just some friendly advice.
We shall see. Frankly I'd rather know so I can react accordingly. It would also be very helpful for everyone to know so that those who have posted personal photos of themselves, pets, grandchildren, etc., can then take them down immediately. I would like to see this controversy put to bed for once and for all.

I appreciate your warning which I do not consider a snark, BTW.

It seems no one else has answered your question, so I will. I don't consider it being invasive..you want to know what we can see...I'll tell you what I saw by right clicking your avatar photo and doing a google search for similar images.

none of what I saw, looked anything like your avatar. One of the photos that appeared looked like it was an image of very young black boy.

I've had similar results by checking up on my own photos that I've posted online.

I would, however, be more careful about posting photos of children, and I'll never post any photos of my grandchildren ( once I have them) on a site like this.

Anonymous · ‎03-16-2016

Moved:

This post has been removed by QVC inappropriate, continuing argument from another forum

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

@VanSleepy wrote:
@terrier3 wrote:
@VanSleepy wrote:
@terrier3 wrote:
I posted a picture of my house a few years ago here because my garden was featured in a magazine - I'll admit, I was proud of that! The pic had the street number of my house because it's next to my front door. Not the street name, just the number.

Someone, somehow tracked it down and posted how much my house was worth and where it was located, on another board.
I wasn't a member of that board, but when I joined later, the threads were there.. The poster eventually apologized for doing that.

After I was booted from that board, the mod (who obviously had my e-mail address) posted stuff from my FB page. The venom was ridiculous, IMO.

I learned a valuable lesson.

I'm not saying it was OK for someone to post info about your home, but you did post the street name.
No, the picture i posted had the street NUMBER on the brick next to my front door.
The poster (who later apologized to me on the forum AND privately) admitted that she tracked it down on her own and was sorry that she did so. She got the "value" of my home from Zillow.
I was more concerned after the mod of that board's husband (who strangely also posted there) called me the c word and then after I was banned (the best day of my posting life!), the mod used my e-mail address to look up my FB page. Scary stuff. I learned my lesson...but GOOD!!!!

I'm not talking about what may or may not - emphasis on the NOT - have happened on any other board. On this board you posted your entire home address. As I said before, I'm not condoning anyone using that to post information about your home, but no one had to "somehow track you down". You inadvertently put it out there for everyone to see.

#1 - I never posted my home address - here or on any board. Ever. I admit to the goof up - the pic of my front door included the street NUMBERS.

#2 - The poster who did all the research and posted info on the value of my home and my neighborhood APOLOGIZED to me - both publicly and privately. Case closed.

#3 - What is in in "human nature" that makes some people look for any and all excuses for other people's bad behavior?