Do You Want Just Anyone To Be Able To Find Out Where You Live?
By villageanne
@villageanne (8553)
United States
June 25, 2007 10:32am CST
Have you ever googled your phone number? Try it. You may be surprised to see what comes up. Try in in several different formats. Try the entire number typed as one number. Try it as the sets of numbers separated by a space. Try any other way you want to.
If google finds your address hit the map button and see what comes up. You can request to have this information blocked by clicking on your phone number. This is not new information to me but I thought you may be interested as we forget over time to keep tabs on this kind of information.
Personally, I don’t want just anyone knowing where I live. Do you?
I have done this peoples phone numbers when I am calling about an ad in the paper also. To see how to get to their homes.
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19 responses
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I remember a friend of mine did that a few years ago, and she was surprised when a map came right up, giving directions to her house.
I think that it is a bit much.
I just tried googling a bunch of phone numbers, it does not seem to work for businesses. I guess only private citizens can have their privacy invaded
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@kushagrakishu (73)
• India
25 Jun 07
i don't think they would be able to design this type of software but by a mobile it is possible
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
28 Jun 07
The internet is a wonderful thing, it is also a very scary thing. You can find out all kinds of info on a person. Some people are so careful about shredding old mail stuff like that. It really doesn't matter, anyone with a computer and internet can find out so much info on a person.
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@krislouiebaby (2347)
• Philippines
28 Jun 07
no, and iw ant my privacy, i do not let anybody know my telephone number and my address too.
i just give information to people i know and family memebers too.it's complicated to let others know whereyou live. there are lots of bad people out there. i just want to be careful.
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I did this a while back- I don’t want anyone having a map to my house- How unsafe is that- If I want someone to come to see me- I’ll give them directions- and my address- I think this is very odd- Especially with all the predators out there- I have removed my phone # and my parents. It was easier than explaining it to them- I just did it-
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
25 Jun 07
Thanks, I did not realize that. I just blocked mine. I don't want directions given to my house. Definitely not.
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
25 Jun 07
Thanks for sharing this I think I have seen this somewhere else but don't remember where. I have tried it but I didn't get anything to come up. Maybe I am not doing it right. I will try again later. Thanks for sharing the information. Have a great day.
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@MrNiceGuy (4141)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I knew you could do this, but I really don't think you should be able to do this. I just don't think its safe or really a good idea for anyone to be able to do this so easily. I guess they can search by phone number in whitepages but that would be so much harder that no one would do it.
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I tried this an got a good laugh at what I found, the information on the map was incorrect. They had me listed as living at my parent's house several miles away from where I actually live. I knew that you could do this, and I have done it before to get directions to someone's house, but never tried it with my own number until now. I didn't know that you could remove your information from their listings though. Thanks for sharing.
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@kumarreddy (96)
• India
25 Jun 07
no i am orthodox person i dont like anybody spying on me i love spending my personal life in a closed fourwalls as a popular saying goes like this "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS"
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
25 Jun 07
Thank you for this villageanne. I have gone ahead and asked my husbands details to be removed from their listings. The map showed the correct address as well. Hmmm don't like the idea of others knowing where I live.
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@allysonfcs (8)
• Brazil
25 Jun 07
lol, this is really interesting =D
other day i had searche for my name and other things but not found nothing, i think that many peoples can find interesting things doing this.
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@keepermykitty (2573)
• Canada
26 Jun 07
Iknow I don`t want just anyone knowing where I live .
I check my paper phone book and it isn`t listed there , Where did you learn something like that ???
Thank-you so much for this information ...
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I personally wouldn't want my address accessible to everyone. The clients that we help often look up the workers and call them at home. They have even said they know where a person lives. Not a good ting.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
4 Oct 07
Why would anyone bother unless they belong to the Burglers and Home Invaders Union. Mind you, for those of us who want to know how to get to a certain place, knowing how to get there, and for those police who get false information, this would be a good idea.
It all depends on what you use it for. If you do not put your phone number up on your website, unless you are a business person, you have nothing to worry about. Also if you think it is all right to find where a person lives, why is not right for them to find out where you live?
@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
26 Jun 07
I would not want any stranger to know where I lived too. Unless unavoidable, I would choose to leave my office contact instead of my home contact. Why should I leave my home contact when whoever wants the phone number only work during office hours and they contact during office hours.
