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> Is it okay if your primary email, phone number and email address are out there in the wild? They probably already were out in the wild. It seems hard to bel
by criddell 4y ago
> Is it okay if your primary email, phone number and email address are out there in the wild?
They probably already were out in the wild.
It seems hard to believe but back when people had landlines, just about everybody was listed in the phone book -- name, address, and phone number.
- macintux 4y agoWell, sort of. One name was. And some people paid to be unlisted. And that address was static, typically discoverable by other means, instead of a digital object that could locate you 24x7 anywhere in the world.
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- bluGill 4y agoYou got to choose the name you were listed in. My grandpa always used his initials because he knew some old widows in the 1950s who didn't want scammers to know only a woman lived there which they could guess by a girls name when every other entry in the phone book was clearly a man's name. (make sure you read the above in your 1950's culture thinking, it won't make sense in the mode of modern culture)
- brycewray 4y agoBy the same token, many such widows from that era — and, in many cases, later on — simply never changed their phone listings after they became widows. I recall my hometown’s phone listings containing many long-dead guys’ names for precisely that reason.