Just curious, what can a determined and knowledgeable person find out about you online?

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Anonymous wrote:As a regular person who is good at internet sleuthing, I likely could have connected dots to find the info you mentioned. Your parents, ex DH, address, family legal issues…that’s all pretty easy to find and available for free if you have time, patience, and maybe above average critical thinking skills. Just because he works for an agency doesn’t mean he used those tools.

This.

That said, I wouldn't admit to it, much less brag about it. I check out the parents of kids my kids are close with, the boyfriends of my close friends, a new boss I couldn't stand, etc... I'm certain that if I were dating these days I'd be googling for as much info as I could find (without paying for it). I think it's kind of human nature.

No, it's YOUR particular kind of nature. I don't do that and no one who is close to me does that.

That's funny, almost everyone in my circle of friends admits to it.

Because everyone around here is worried they are living next to a serial killer.

+1

Yes! So true!

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You can find a lot by googling and putting the pies together OP. Dana search is free and then it takes you to a paid page for more info. I, 'd be super creeped out. I headed a retained executive search firm. You can find a lot about a person in the Internet and AI age.

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^pieces

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Anonymous wrote:I remember back in ‘86 (yesss, I know I am THAT old!) a popular actress at the time, Rebecca Schaffer was gunned down by a crazed fan after he found her address from DMV records.

At that time, laws were immediately put on the books to ensure people’s addresses were no longer so easy to find so another tragedy like that would never occur again.

That is…..until the Internet was born!
I Google myself & am still dismayed that not only is my address available online (free!) but also my actual apartment unit no.#

I wish there were privacy laws in tact but in 2023 that is only a pipe dream now.

Your ex (I agree - you dodged a bullet w/this guy!) likely could have gotten his hands on the info on his own, away from work.

Except you can use a pseudonym in various places, including Los Angeles when you buy a property, for the "records" and in fact, for 100% privacy

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Every now and then an old name from the past pops into my head so I turn to Mr. Google to see where he and she is nowadays. It's surprising how much basic info you can gather from a 15 minute google search to give a pretty good idea of how well they're doing in life.

What I find intriguing are the people with absolutely no internet history anywhere, at least after a certain year. I'm assuming they're either dead or failed into obscurity.

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Be cognizant of who you accept follow requests from on social media. Be cognizant of your social media settings. You don’t want to allow “friends of friends” to see your profile, because then you have to trust your friends to have the same vetting process.

He could learn a lot just by clicking through your following list at people in your circle with lax privacy settings.

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Anonymous wrote:You can find out a lot of pretty superficial information but should always take it with a grain of salt- so much of it is wrong. I was listed as being in foreclosure for a house that didn’t belong to me and I never lived in.

Glad he’s your ex.

Yep. My mom was listed as having had her car in Iowa repossessed. She lived in Kalorama.

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Anonymous wrote:As a regular person who is good at internet sleuthing, I likely could have connected dots to find the info you mentioned. Your parents, ex DH, address, family legal issues…that’s all pretty easy to find and available for free if you have time, patience, and maybe above average critical thinking skills. Just because he works for an agency doesn’t mean he used those tools.

This.

That said, I wouldn't admit to it, much less brag about it. I check out the parents of kids my kids are close with, the boyfriends of my close friends, a new boss I couldn't stand, etc... I'm certain that if I were dating these days I'd be googling for as much info as I could find (without paying for it). I think it's kind of human nature.

No, it's YOUR particular kind of nature. I don't do that and no one who is close to me does that.

That's funny, almost everyone in my circle of friends admits to it.

Because everyone around here is worried they are living next to a serial killer.

I found out that the father of one of my son's friends was a warlord. We didn't allow them to play together.