this is quite scary..... on another site we are members of, this thread came up in the forums and I thought i would check it out - guess what, our profile on here came up!
I would recommend you have a look - there might be long-lost memberships of other sites which you had forgotten about!
Admin - is there anything you can do to block our profiles appearing on google?
Jx
yes ours came up as well.
You are now officially a googlebrity !!
More reasons to watch what you write about your selves in the forums and don't have face pics except in your private gallery, don't use real names.
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well guggery flippery are's to. well admin me old cocka whats the score arrrr :cry:
[quote user=j_and_k]
Admin - is there anything you can do to block our profiles appearing on google?
Jx[/quote]
Every site on the internet which requires a member to fill out a profile will allow search engines to crawl the information. As you have noticed by entering your commonly used username into a search engine such as google, you find all of the sites that you are registered to.
I would advise that if you do not want certain pictures to be shown, that you should add these to your private gallery or obscure your face.
My God, your so right i did try it, and here i arrived back again to where i was. Sorry but i have duly taken my face pics off, and left you all with the pics of the other end of me. ( lol- some may say looks better). It also shows what you have written in the forum. Oh My this will be shown on there also. Im away to check that Cheers for that bit of info.
Ccrider
xxx
[quote user=admin][quote user=j_and_k]
Admin - is there anything you can do to block our profiles appearing on google?
Jx[/quote]
Every site on the internet which requires a member to fill out a profile will allow search engines to crawl the information. As you have noticed by entering your commonly used username into a search engine such as google, you find all of the sites that you are registered to.
I would advise that if you do not want certain pictures to be shown, that you should add these to your private gallery or obscure your face.[/quote]
I have removed any clear faced pics and put a more obscure pic in its place.
I'm more than happy to provide clear faced pics in response to a mailed request.
Bit of a pain I know at times, but better than having your pic used in a porn mag or any other publication.
yeks.....this is spooky ,reoved all face pics now !!
be careful folks
respectdue
ok i did this and went through 4 pages and nothing turned up for me. but i reckon i did it wrong coz i haven't a clue. do you just put your username in the google tool bar and press search uk and or web. thats what i did. someone enlighten me please thank you gypsy xx
Gypsy (and anyone else!) - yes, that's exactly what you need to do. You're probably lucky - not everyone will have been added to a general websearch database. If I search my own name, I only find one very obscure reference to my membership on this site (my profile itself doesn't come up).
It could only be a matter of time, though, which is why I took my profile pics off a long time ago !
People DO need to be aware that this is a very real risk, albeit a rather small one in reality, that someone who knows you will stumble across your photo by searching on your username. I would strongly recommend that if you're the least bit concerned about being detected on this site, clear face pics are reserved for private galleries only. It IS a pain, because it makes it harder to know if you like the look of someone or not (have to request private gallery access), but ultimately the risk is yours to take.
Suds
Putting picture in private gallery didn't work.
I did a google search a few minutes ago and all of the picture I thought I had put in my private gallery came up.
Careful what you do with your pictures everybody.
been spoke about in chatroom tonight so bringing it back to top for those to see that missed it.
xxxx
Its a pity whoever is doing this cant get there facts right.
One of them doesnt even relate to me the other is just a comment.
I must be lucky coz i couldnt find my profile on there.
Shit Shit Shit gonna remove damn near all my pics and rely on my reputation. O GOD I AM DOOMED