Word of warning

[MrsPete]

I looked at my family's names. Only one of four of us was on the site, and 80% of that information was wrong. Apparently we live in a 1M+ home in a below-average neighborhood and have crappy credit. Oh, and my husband and I seem to have divorced; I didn't know. Pretty much it was just a name/address that was right.

I wouldn't take it too seriously.

 

[DisneyLover83]

Lets say you have an email account and the way to reset a password is to answer 3 "secret" questions. Well, some of those common secret questions are things that can be socially engineered online. Lets say your 3 questions are:

Your high school mascot.
Your mother's maiden name.
The city you were born in.

Many times this information is pretty easy to figure out with a facebook profile. Sometimes it is explicit (having your school and graduating year in your info) and sometimes it is implicit (using friends to deduce you family members that have your mother's maiden name).

The way to combat this of course is to lie. For example, the year you graduated high school could be 866457 and your mother's maiden name can be juyy&^8. You just have to remember what you answered.

I never thought about how all those things are easy to find out, thanks for pointing this out

 

[FireDancer]

I never thought about how all those things are easy to find out, thanks for pointing this out

This was the method used to get into both Palin and Obama's personal email during the last campaign. This info is even easier to figure out on public officials, often times using their Wikipedia pages.