Thursday, February 27, 2014

Stranger Mine

  image source: google


Mining for strangers is a bit weird yet intriguing. I had to "Mine a stranger" which was really my instructors colleague. It's common everyone digital snoops whether it's on Facebook, Google, or Intelius, because that's the thing to do, with all this free access to their personal information on social media. We want to know who we are associating with, without them knowing we know, you know? ;).

To know that whatever we do on the Internet never really goes away is crazy. I Googled myself and found a little info about myself. There were a few pictures with drawn on eyebrows (crazy phase I was going through #dontjudge, lol) that I wish I can make completely disappear.

In this day and age of technology, with one click of a mouse we can find out so much information. So the next time you post a pic (picture) be careful, it may come back to haunt you.

Sites that are helpful for the miner in you are below:

Google.com
Facebook.com
LinkedIn.com
Twitter.com
Pipl.com
Spezify.com
Personas.media.mit.edu
Intelius.com
Socialmention.com
Zoominfo.com
Peoplefinders.com
Peekyou.com
Instantcheckmate.com
Chicago.blockstopper.com
Socialwise.biz
Spokeo.com
Kred.com

By the way there are plenty more sites out there......Happy Mining ;)

~Hafiza

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for your thoughts on the assignment. I'm sure lots of people have images out there they wish would disappear!

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