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November 2015 Moms
VexyMommy
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Stranger Danger - Surname announcements and other personal information
VexyMommy
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Although it is often helpful when we're asking advice on names for our new children, telling anyone with an internet connection your last name could be dangerous. Many of us provide personal details such as our first and last names, first and last names of our children and their gender, when our partners are out of town or if we're single, the type of car we drive, even our city. Some of us forget to crop photos which includes the name of our doctors and even our addresses. I am sure that everyone in this forum is lovely and means me no harm, but I am not comfortable trusting my life and that of my family on that feeling.
Just a PSA, please be aware of the information you're putting out there and how it could possibly be used for bad purposes.
Just a PSA, please be aware of the information you're putting out there and how it could possibly be used for bad purposes.
June Siggy Challenge 
Re: Stranger Danger - Surname announcements and other personal information
& I did create a new user name for this reason but i am not signed into the bump! Gr
If you've mentioned your city and your last name creeps can probably find you.
I'm still shocked that in 2015 people are so naive about the internet.
If we aren't talking about the same incident, same thing happened on S15 and the person who gave the warning was banned. Out of curiosity, I looked up member she was talking to, and found her home address and what she paid for the house last year. She also gave her husband's employer, which I Thought was dumbest of all.
My name, first and last, are ridiculously common so if you Google my name you get a million results, even in my city, but I'm also not a moron and have no intentions of telling you people my name.
Because recent comments made me think of this, and I know a LOT of people are still sharing un-cropped ultrasound pics.
*YCSWU June Siggy*
DS Born May 5th, 2012
Baby #2 due November 19th, 2015
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Anyone googling our name could fine 1)my first and last name; 2) my husband's first and last name, 3) city and state; and 4) due date.
From
City assessor records - it would also be pretty easy to get our address with that info- basically someone could
Know exactly where a newborn baby would be... And when.
Ugh.
So just a reminder - whether you choose to make registries public or not - check to see what info is out there online about you and your impending LO. Even if you subsequently mark a registry as "private"
Apparently the info can still be out there.
Amazon was great about taking the info down and working with the bump and google to do the same (it was still showing in google
Search results even after deleting the registry).
A long way of saying - please be careful ladies!
Ps: while we think we did everything we could to make the registry private at the time we set it up- it's possible we did it immediately after setting it up- either way, we did not think our info would be out on the internet. I am not trying to make folks paranoid- just aware.