Vanity search

My vanity search was very interesting I searched on yahoo and Google there were so many matches that I could not find anything about myself. I know for a fact that if you searched long enough you would find things out about me. Through myspace or any other types of forms that I may have filled out online in a matter of seconds. Just through whitepages you could find out all about me and my family. I did search a few aliases like my xbox360 name and stuff I used for geo cashing or what ever and found out ways to link myself to those aliases.

What really got me though was people searches I found that with a few dollars you could find stuff out about people that was way to privet. You can go as far as finding their social number. One site offered a price of 35 dollars to find out what peoples social number is. A site that was recommended in class intelius, was disturbing because the site tells you the persons direct family members. Once you find family members you can still there identities or something.

I can honestly say that it is scary the things people can do online, it’s terrible. I know there are ways to protect yourself, through software or companies that go around and delete your information for a fee. I don’t think there is a way to completely stop companies from selling your information and even if you pay someone to delete your information it was still out there and someone has seen it.

I hate to think about the future how things are changing how people will become more digital. Also how easy it will be for strangers to see into our lives. For example hacking into our cell phones and watching us or stilling our phone records and selling the numbers to other companies.