I can find you by just clicking on your avatar pic.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I saw part of a show on MTV where they could tell a lot by just a pic on the net. Just for the hell of it, I tried it on an avatar in this forum. I came up with a name, age, address, and posting in other groups. Considering, I'm not skilled like the two guys on MTV, to me that's kind of freaky. Yeah, I'm a creature from the 20th Century, when we had 'privacy".
 

For both of you, clicking on your picture just leads me to your user profile here on the Senior Forums. The only infor that gives is things you , yourself put it, and your stats for this forum. But I know you can get a lot of info from looking at background and pictures, and some pics that were taken on a smart phone may give gps coordinates of where the pic was taken, from what I heard somewhere
 

I found you Warrigal, on an Australian forum.. If you posted any personal info there I would be able to see it if I joined, which I did not.

I didn't look any further.
 
I am always careful not to give personal information that is likely to be useful to anyone wanting to troll me or steal my identity. In my posts I never name any family members. I never refer to my husband IRL as hubby but on the net that is his only name.

I have a facebook account but it is only readable by family members. Even there I never give out my birthdate.
 
It's real easy to do. Get your pic into your photos in your computer. Go to Google Images and enter your pic. It will search the web to find that image. What will show up is the people, who have that image associated with them. If you've got that image off the net, and 12,347 others have it, well they will all show up. Even if it is your picture, it will show up on other people's computers. They could be "friends" of family member, who has your pic. That's all I know. There's ways to get all kinds of identifying numbers embedded in the pic, I don't know how to do that stuff
 
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There's information embedded on the pic you are using as an avatar. They are not visible. Look, I am not a computer geek. I do not know how to decode it, or whatever you do. I saw a show on MTV, where these two guys were able to get all kinds of identifying numbers embedded in a pic.
 
If the picture is posted elsewhere on the internet then simply resize and rename it. Nothing should come up then. You can still be found though if someone is determined enough.
 
boaterboi said:
If the picture is posted elsewhere on the internet then simply resize and rename it. Nothing should come up then. You can still be found though if someone is determined enough.
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No, resizing and renaming doesn't help if someone is determined.
 
I used to do some skip tracing as part of my job. Nowdays by using the internet resources and public records online and "people search" resources online, it's not nearly as hard to find somebody as you would think. Whatever you do, you leave a trail.
 
First and foremost, I am NOT a computer geek. So this is what I have been told. What you see on the screen as a pic is an extremely small part of the information that was sent by your computer. The computer, which generated and sent the pic, has an identifying number. Every computer on the net has an identifying number. And you can call it up some how. There is other information of how it got from your computer to the Forum's computer. And you can back track this.
 

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