rafeal Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 I just found out about this MyLife website that lets you track who and how many times people look at your information on the internet and FB. What is everyones take on using this to see who is looking at your pages?
TaraMaiden Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 Great. Yet another way to feed your fears. Psychological masochism.
ivalm Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 I just found out about this MyLife website that lets you track who and how many times people look at your information on the internet and FB. What is everyones take on using this to see who is looking at your pages? It's false advertisement. They can't track who looks at you on FB/internet..
collegeguy_24 Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 False advertisement. The internet is to large to for something to track your name, there are to many lines of code and algorithms involved. Of course, if you want, try it out then let us know.
phineas Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 FB purposefully blocks who is looking at your page. I seriously doubt a 3rd party website can get that info.
Author rafeal Posted February 6, 2011 Author Posted February 6, 2011 To everyone that said it wasn't possible, it is. I found myself on mylife and they had alot of information about me. My full name and my parents full names. I also created an account to see how it worked. I used a bogus name and a bs email account. When I asked who was looking for me, it showed my real name and details again. The website seemed to know who I really was (IP tracking?). I know some say this isn't possible but I think mylife is tracking through IP adress and customer information. They might have had a FB tracking option, but I wasn't going to pay to see how that works. I know Google stores all of your information when you use their website, reselling data is how they make money. Here is where it applies to dating. A girl I was dating has a mylife account. She accused me of lying about my family. I have a very big family but it's mainly my step brothers and sisters. Mylife did not list my steps only my immediate family (the information there was only partially complete). Yet another way to feed your fears. Tara, I could not agree with you more!
ivalm Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 (edited) To everyone that said it wasn't possible, it is. I found myself on mylife and they had alot of information about me. My full name and my parents full names. I also created an account to see how it worked. I used a bogus name and a bs email account. When I asked who was looking for me, it showed my real name and details again. The website seemed to know who I really was (IP tracking?). I know some say this isn't possible but I think mylife is tracking through IP adress and customer information. They might have had a FB tracking option, but I wasn't going to pay to see how that works. I know Google stores all of your information when you use their website, reselling data is how they make money. Here is where it applies to dating. A girl I was dating has a mylife account. She accused me of lying about my family. I have a very big family but it's mainly my step brothers and sisters. Mylife did not list my steps only my immediate family (the information there was only partially complete). Tara, I could not agree with you more! In all seriousness -- mylife tracks people who go on mylife website. They track who searches who ON mylife website. They also collect freely available information (like yellow pages).. so of course they have your name, family members, perhaps age, address, and phone numbers.. About Google: Reselling private personally identifiable information (ie things connected to your name) is against their privacy policy. At most they can send you advertisements based on preferences exhibited by your IP address (as far as I know not even sell those preferences). Facebook: Making sure that tracking isn't done was one of things Facebook has always claimed (and it's impossible to do unless facebook explicitly lets you do it) Rest of internet: how would you do it? Hack into all ISPs? Seriously impossible without NSA type infrastructure and billions upon billions in taxpayer money Edited February 6, 2011 by ivalm
Author rafeal Posted February 7, 2011 Author Posted February 7, 2011 (edited) @Ivalm - lol I seriously doubt those organizations you mentioned are interested in my dating life. It sounds like you know quit a bit about the internet, I defer to your wisdom. @Tara - the NC guide is a great read! Edited February 7, 2011 by rafeal
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