Personal Info on the Web

[Princess]

So how do you feel about your personal information being on the web?



Recently a girlfriend of mine googled her name and was surprised to find her name, address, and phone number on the net.



Also, she had been in a contest sponsored by her local newspaper. She had a 'profile' page as a contest winner. This had her picture as well as a lot of information about her.



How do you feel about people knowing your info? Should you have a say in what goes on the net? How careful should you be when putting info on the net?

 

[Jazzy]

Recently a girlfriend of mine googled her name and was surprised to find her name, address, and phone number on the net.



Also, she had been in a contest sponsored by her local newspaper. She had a 'profile' page as a contest winner. This had her picture as well as a lot of information about her.

I need to ask before I can answer: Does she have a Facebook and/or My Space account?

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't get anything (interesting about me) when I google my name

How careful should you be when putting info on the net?

Quite careful.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I googled my name and way too much came up (nothing I personally put out there either).

Im against it.

 

[hotspot]

I'm very careful when it comes to info on the net, like on facebook I don't use my real name and I don't supply my profile with a real image of me. I just use Hotspot flame and a character from a game or whatever.



There's this one site that I joined that wanted my real name, I used hotspot flame. But now they are saying they don't like fake names, which really pissed me off becuase I don't want people stalking me! So I used my real first name and my mothers original last name.

 

[Princess]

I need to ask before I can answer: Does she have a Facebook and/or My Space account?

Nope. This was just stuff like on white pages.com.

I googled my name and way too much came up (nothing I personally put out there either).

Im against it.

I googled my name, and as luck would have it, there is an author by that name also--hee, hee--none of the info out there is mine.

 

[Peaceful]

Couldn't care less. As long as my address isn't on they're I'm fine.