Googled myself

I googled myself and it freaked me out. It said my exact net worth and how much I make a year. I dont like this. Ive also been reading about android logs every action you do and stores it in their clouds. So every little weird porno you ever searched for is out there somewhere. Everything you've said. And they sell this info to people. The only way it could have known how much I make is from me typing it to someone or if they have looked at my W2s.

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  • dirtybirdy

    I just did and apparently I'm deceased....ummm maybe on the inside but I am very much alive

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  • megadriver

    Because Europe has more strict privacy laws, you can't find out a lot about someone just from googling them. Unless they share information willingly...

    I can find my facebook account by googling myself and my gardening/ cleaning company, but that's about it. No info about how much I make, what I have, etc.

    But even so, I don't believe there is any privacy nowadays. Everything you do on the internet is logged somewhere. Phones log and share your location, your car does it, your smart fridge knows what you eat. Your smart door knows when you go out and come home. If you're small fry - you are safe, nobody cares about you.

    If you're a big shot, that info can be used against you and become a huge problem.

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  • olderdude-xx

    There's a real interesting mix out there.

    And then there are those sites where you pay to get information about someone (including their legal records).

    Those paid information sites are mostly scams as far as I can tell.

    They incorrectly list what my income is. They list that I am a member of major political party (I have never joined any political party and vote for candidates from all parties based on individual assessment of each candidate)

    Up until last year I had 2 State Issues licenses... neither site listed those (Professional Engineer, and Blaster's license - which I still have).

    The so called legal record is missing most of it (nothing worse than a speeding ticket - but I have been the plaintiff in one case, was one of several people sued - unsuccessfully, and a key witness in several cases.

    The list of identified family and relatives is both way incomplete and has names of people I am not related to (but they do have the same last name... and there were multiple unrelated Germans with that last name in Germany/Prussia as it relates to an occupation).

    I offered to clear that up with one company - but in order for that to occur I would have to join and pay them a monthly fee... No thank you.

    I hope someday someone sues them for their inaccuracies.

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  • bbrown95

    I think olderdude is right about those personal information sites being mostly scams, not to mention they're often inaccurate. They have me incorrectly listed as a male, and list a phone number I've never even heard of as mine, along with an address in a state I've never visited as a previous address.

    Besides, I really don't think many people are interested enough in average people to pay for their personal information. Even employers don't do that, as it's a waste of money when the stuff they need to know is public info.

    As for your activity being tracked online, I admittedly don't know much about that kind of stuff and maybe I'm being naive, but I don't think many people, including the government, care enough to really look at that stuff unless you're doing something highly illegal. Going through everyone's Web history would require an insane amount of time and people, and would be pointless. You know how many people watch porn and look up weird stuff online? That's probably very vanilla stuff to anyone whose job is to look into people's Internet history.

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  • Tinybird

    When I google myself a famous singer with the same name comes up. But not me. Although I am a singer.

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  • Chap

    One time I did this and it said my exact birthday, and my mother's name

    Except it got the year wrong making me 99 at the time

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  • raisinbran

    A child molester in Kansas shares my name, unfortunately.

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  • Wow3986

    Lmfao, you've should've knew this by now. Cheer up, OP.

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  • PurpleHoneycomb

    When I Google myself, it brings up my social medias and 2 photos of me from when I was 13 and 8 respectively.

    It also brings up an article I wrote at one point.

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  • kelili

    I google myself quite often, especially when I have applied for a job. I just check what potential employers might find out.

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  • litelander8

    I feel terrible for the people who think they should look at the porn I watch.

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    • And how that info goes into a cloud somewhere and will just be sold to someone who wants it. Its not secretive at all. Everything you've ever did is documented.

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      • litelander8

        But, I can google myself and find about nothing. So that’s cool.

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        • Try "googling" it on duckduckgo and put your state next to your name. Everything about you will come up. Often times you have to pay for the real details like employment and political views.

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          • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

            mine comes up with a phone number for a landline i havent had for years some wrong email addresses old addresses that credit card companies sent me statements to and my supposed net worth is a ten year old tax assessment of my dump

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            • bbrown95

              Mine comes up incorrectly listing me as a male, with a phone number I've never heard of in my life. 🤣 Oh, and one of my "previous addresses" is in a state I've never even visited.

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            • My number was wrong as well. But everything else was right except a family member thats really an old boss. Theres all kinds of different sites though some have my stuff wrong but I found one and it even showed views it showed that 7 people have viewed my stats on there and even had people downvoted my reputation lol

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  • jethro

    You have some weird pornos?

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    • No, I deleted everything I'm about to get more into my privacy now. I never use to care until recently.

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  • GaelicPotato

    How to cook a cat with your coffee maker
    After I posted this on the Swedish version of Coffee Machine Cuisine people got very upset. Some of the things they called me was idiot, cannibal (?) and they even said that I’m the reason for the low status that cats got in this society. I don’t get why people are so upset?! It’s no worse than eating a cow, pig or a chicken if you ask me. And hunting must be the most humane way to kill animals for food.

    It all took place on a warm and sunny day when me and Dan were out at our cabin with all of our cats. Since we got so many cats I figured that I could shoot one of them so I released them into the woods and began the hunt. First I thought that the fat one, Gucci, would be an easy shot but she managed to escape surprisingly quickly. It was the sun that eventually was Iggy’s downfall. She is quite photophobic you see so she could hardly see where she was going. And BAM, easy shot for me.cooking with your coffee maker

    R.I.P. my little sweetheart.
    Time
    5 hours
    Ingredients
    1 cat
    ½ red onion
    1 pimiento
    1 clove of garlic
    2 ½ dl coconut milk
    2 ½ dl cream
    2 tbsp meat extract
    Juice of lime
    Ginger
    Butter
    Instructions
    Skin, fillet and chop the kitty cat. Start your coffee maker, grease the heater and place the pieces of your cat onto it. Fry it until they are cooked throughly and tender, it will take about an hour (it depends on what cut of meat you’re using and how fresh it is). Remove the meat and wipe the heater.

    Chop all of the remaining ingredients that shall be chopped. Put a dollop of butter into the carafe, let it melt and then put the onion and the garlic in the carafe and fry it for about half an hour. Season with ginger. Add coconut milk, cream and meat extract and let it cook for two hours – it should get really warm. After that add the cat meat and wait a bit longer. Finally add pimiento pieces, lime juice and season generously with freshly ground black pepper and just a little salt. Turn off your coffee maker.

    The best way to serve this delicious cat stew is accompanied by a glass of a tasty red wine and freshly baked bread.

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