I received an email this morning from a service called Spokeo.

“As a courtesy, we are notifying you that Spokeo users have found the following accounts for you:
Flickr schlemmsy on Flickr
Digg schlemmsy on Digg
Slide daniel.lewington on Slide

If you would like to make these accounts private, please change the privacy settings on the original network and Spokeo will update its search results to reflect your changes.”

I can’t help thinking this is the same kind of courtesy extended to characters in Francis Ford Coppolla’s The Godfather Trilogy before they’re summarily executed.

Basically it’s a sort of user-profile aggregator that trawls lots of sites looking for user information and will then update you when any content on any of those sites is updated by that individual.

Perhaps a quick visit? Unscrupulous employers may well.

———— EXTRA THOUGHT————–

Use it to measure and ensure brand consistency and coverage. At a glance you can see the user icon and activity across the various sites e.g. number of posts. Check that you’re 1. visually consistent and 2. spreading yourself evenly across the sites that matter.

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