If you value your privacy, IMO......
In case you haven’t heard about the website already, Spokeo is a new information gathering web service that allows users to search for the personal information of strangers, friends, co-workers, etc. From this description, it doesn’t sound like anything new, as Facebook, Twitter, and even Google allows users to do essentially the same thing. However, if this was the case, than this blog would be pretty pointless. “Nothing to report here, just move along.”
What Spokeo does to really crank up its creep factor and set itself apart from other information gathering web services is the amount of searchable personal data it provides to users. Everything from where a person lives, to how many people are in their family, household income, relationship status, age, even when they had their first kiss, and more, is available on Spokeo. The website accomplishes this feat by searching through other websites, such as those previously mentioned ones, as well as other public databases and uses the data it finds to compile a person’s profile. It really is quite creepy. I searched my own name and was able to find my personal information on the site, all of which was reported within incredibly accurate detail. Thankfully, though if one wants to see the more intimate details of another person’s life, they’ll have to fork up a subscription fee to Spokeo.
In case you haven’t heard about the website already, Spokeo is a new information gathering web service that allows users to search for the personal information of strangers, friends, co-workers, etc. From this description, it doesn’t sound like anything new, as Facebook, Twitter, and even Google allows users to do essentially the same thing. However, if this was the case, than this blog would be pretty pointless. “Nothing to report here, just move along.”
What Spokeo does to really crank up its creep factor and set itself apart from other information gathering web services is the amount of searchable personal data it provides to users. Everything from where a person lives, to how many people are in their family, household income, relationship status, age, even when they had their first kiss, and more, is available on Spokeo. The website accomplishes this feat by searching through other websites, such as those previously mentioned ones, as well as other public databases and uses the data it finds to compile a person’s profile. It really is quite creepy. I searched my own name and was able to find my personal information on the site, all of which was reported within incredibly accurate detail. Thankfully, though if one wants to see the more intimate details of another person’s life, they’ll have to fork up a subscription fee to Spokeo.
