Tuesday, March 23, 2010

How much information is on this highway, anyway!

At work today, I heard some of my co-workers talking about a website that gave a startling amount of information - for free. If you want more detailed information, you have to choose a plan and pay your money. Whichever way you chose, you go to www.spokeo.com and put in a name, a phone number or an email address. The information that is free includes the person's address and a down toward the bottom of the page, picture of their home. I guess it's from Google Earth but it was amazing to me to hear the folks I work with exclaiming, "That's MY HOUSE!" as they put in their names and hit Enter.

So, I tried it. Sure enough, there was my address. Scanning down the page there was a red flag in the middle of a bunch of trees. I thought, humph - that's not my house! Then I scanned out. And a little further away from the treed property there was an overhead of our house! Ulp. Someone knows a whole bunch about us, guys. Try it. Some of the homes I was able to see were taken from street level. You can apparently run - but you can't hide!

5 comments:

RANGER said...

The pix are there but the info is incorrect, no? You can do nearly the same thing with Google Earth. If you know the address, that is.

Interesting!

ol Doc said...

I think if you join the website, the info might come up more nearly correct. I'm not gonna. If anyone does, let me know how that works out? When the work force tried the site, everyone's house was worth about a million dollars or so. They offered to sell to one another. Funny group I work with!

RANGER said...

Okay, will they buy mine, too?

Zeta said...

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I’m fond of my home despite the effort the information given about what my house might be worth. Oh, really……..It’s nice to dream even for a moment. I keep searching for my winning lotto ticket and the numbers aren’t cooperating insides Publix lotto machine.

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