“If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the curve.” (WSJ) This is one trend I don’t mind missing out on. But if you are so inclined…
- ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates.
- Spock.com and Wink.com are “people-search engines” that specialize in digging up personal pages, such as social-networking profiles, buried deep in the Web.
- Spokeo.com is a startup that lets users see what their friends are doing on other Web sites.
- Zillow.com estimates the value of people’s homes.
- Huffington Post’s Fundrace feature tracks their campaign donations.
- Jigsaw.com lets people share details with each other from business cards they’ve collected — a sort of gray market for Rolodex data.
(via jessicalindsey)
My office is kick-ass at stalking people. It’s actually a little creepy. But we have dug up dirt on boyfriends, blind dates, guys we met at bars, girlfriends of our guy friends…you name it.
I am sure these will come in handy.
