I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk,
But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
but the fact that they COULD and sometimes HAVE, is very concerning 😟
I wish sensitive information like that could be kept proprietary and wasn’t so easy for anyone in the world to access.
You know as a matter of fact, it’s much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life. Which is a good thing.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.
When I was a kid we had a phone book, it doxxed everyone with a land line.
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Hah, those were the days. On your topic though, yea it sucks the way celebrities are treated. It’s part of why they command such compensation (I think) they don’t get to live normal lives even if they wanted to. Becoming famous demands security to a degree most people aren’t familiar with at all.
You’d probably be surprised to learn how little some famous people make.
Some for sure.
Seems like a lot of people are unaware of white pages
We discussed that here.
In the olden days it was easier to look anyone up, the phone company would deliver a new phone book to everyone’s front door twice a year, how could we not all be at least a little fascinated to explore through all those pages and look up people we know from school etc? 😋
nowadays people have to go out of their way with an intention in their mind to go to a website and look people up on whitepages.com or peoplefinder.com etc and last time I noticed years ago, a fee is required to use those kind of sites.
I remember back in grade school (early 80’s) we had lessons about how to use a phone book. Now I’m surprised if I ever see a new one dropped off at the front door.
The nice thing about being a regular person is that very few people have any reason to care.
If you buy something online, the merchant has your name and address. They could come to your house, but why would they?
yeah thankfully I don’t worry about such things whatsoever, but we’ve all heard in the news once in awhile these things do happen, for example a construction worker on a house came into the window of a sleeping child’s bedroom one night and kidnapped her
Welcome to living in Sweden.
With a quick Google search you can find someone’s home address, income, social security number, birthdate, amount of owned vehicles, political work (if any), size of home, criminal record, and much more!
It fucking sucks for it all to be public information, but websites dedicated to collating it all under one roof is even worse.
In USA we could do that but we have to dig a bit deeper and pay fees for information like that. Do they at least make you have to work for that information or it just comes up instantly for free?
Dafuq, I always thought that personal data was serious business in Sweden, unpleasant surprise
In the internet age, it’s incredibly easy to look up personal information about people like their address. Sorry, but you likely are easily searchable just like the rest of us.
yep, all my lifetime addresses are publicly searchable and easy to find online, but you’d be hard pressed to find me because I don’t live at any of those addresses.
If you own your home, it’s a matter of public record in most states. Hell, I once used to resolve a disagreement my wife and I were having over our neighbor’s name. Just looked up the property address on your county assessors website… They list the owners, when the property was last sold, the appraised value and taxes, and a bunch of other stuff.
Our county even makes marriage licenses searchable online.
I’m not interesting enough to worry about people being unduly interested in me.
I was going to jokingly post the coordinates to a White Castle in Chicago, but then I thought it might be interpreted as serious doxxing, and I could get permanently suspended.
So just imagine that I did that, and it was really funny.
LMAO gotem! (I’m imagining really hard)
Often when I meet new people they ask me where I live and I find that very strange and I’m uncomfortable with that.
Why do people ask me where I live? I never ask anyone else where they live. I couldn’t even imagine asking someone that. Especially upon meeting them for the first time.
I don’t know where you’re from, but asking about where one lives (in very general terms, such as city and state) is a common thing to do while striking up friendly conversation here in the US. Your response gives us cultural context and may reveal shared experiences.
No one who asks, “Where you from?” is asking for your street address.
But what if one day you turn on the TV and you look on the internet and for no fucking reason everywhere you see your name and address posted, and millions of people commenting about it and sharing it with everyone they know.
How would you feel? How would you react?
I would be deeply confused.
Sorry but I don’t feel any sympathy for celebrities. They gave up the right to privacy the second they started getting free $7000 a bottle wines and iPads for free just because they’re famous.
And WTF is up with folks essentially worshipping celebs like Taylor Swift?
The thing that i don’t get is, if every celebrity’s phone number, adress and whatever got leaked tomorrow, i would visit and or call the just as much as now.
People admire those that do things they like. When a LOT of people like the same person it can turn into a feedback loop. Couple that with parasocial relationships and easy communication via the Internet and it can easily blow up. We’re also programmed to like people that are popular because others like them.
As I’m not a celebrity, I’m guessing there’s quite a few more options than most of us are aware of. One example I could think of is for the celeb to make an LLC and have that LLC buy the house they’re living in.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk, But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
I’m sure that nearly all celebrities/public figures, once a certain amount famous, encounter crazy people that they should be fearful of.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.
I don’t feel bad for them for this part. Its part of the price of being a public figure. I don’t know why people wish for fame. Seems like its a mountain of trouble to deal with.
Ooh I wonder if they could use their LLC to buy a decoy house so everyone in the world thinks they live there but they actually don’t.
The LLC would be a holding company, so on the deed instead of it saying “Taylor Swift” it would say “United Holdings Conglomerate LLC” as the deed.
okay that’s all fine and good, but eventually somehow the address of the place where the celebrity sleeps every night gets leaked, and the public gets all excited about it. This is what worries me on their behalf.
Their aspiration/ income is directly tied to how popular they are. You can’t have both. They have enough money to hide if they please
You mean like the phonebook?
Google has a feature where it’ll tell you if your personal information shows up in their index and you can request they remove it from being served.
I can say that my personal information has shown up a few times.
Syndrome says in the incredibles, “when everyone is super, nobody is”.
In an ideal world, without stalkers, ad companies, doorstop marketers and selling data, it would be much less of an issue if everyone’s addresses were public - there would be nothing special about it since everyone’s equally exposed.
In today’s world though, I’d be terrified AF!
I wonder how many celebrities go to counselling/therapy, looking at all the horrible things people say online, as well as death threats, creeps etc. Must be miserable
Some random but related food for thought: consider Ebay, Amazon and other marketplaces - you’re handing over your address, email and phone number to a random seller (on Ebay this includes your order history, public on your profile) and any one of these could sell your private data onwards, potentially exposing some of your online identity to data brokers for advertising or other malicious purposes. Depending on your threat model, online shopping could be a pretty risky thing to use. Amazon used to also make users’ wishlists public by default, not sure if that is still a thing
The risks of online shopping have been discussed before and those interfaces are highly encrypted, So while it’s understandable if people want to avoid it entirely, we really don’t need to be too paranoid about online shopping.
regarding the Amazon wish list defaulting to public awhile ago, yeah there was a big uproar about that. I hope Amazon straightened things out with that.
You mean, the phone book?
You are the fourth person to make the same comment about phone books and we’ve already discussed this.
You are the fourth person to make the same comment and we’ve already discussed it. Read the comments.
We called it a phone book.
