They still do. If you’ve made any public transaction (like buying a home), Whitepages will publish your info. That’s not the only reason for it, either. My 90 year-old relative was listed, and she doesn’t own anything.
Yes. What happened to that? It's interesting that we became more private in that regard while gushing personal information from sensors worn on our bodies 24/7.
They stopping printing phone books because everything is online.
Google your name and you’ll likely find much more information than the white pages ever had. I found an old email address of mine from the 90s that is long gone, every place I’ve ever lived, relationships to various family members, my parent’s address dating back decades, even my grandfathers last couple addresses and he’s been dead for over 20 years.
About 10 years ago someone on eBay tried to pull something on me and I was trying to figure out what I was dealing with. Within 45 minutes I had his name, parent’s names, phone number, and their address. I didn’t do anything with it, but it wasn’t that hard to find, with nothing more than a username or email address.
Scale I guess. No one but people nearby will have your local phonebook. And there would be no way to go through all the information even if someone had all phonebooks. The world used to be far more disconnected.
They still do. If you’ve made any public transaction (like buying a home), Whitepages will publish your info. That’s not the only reason for it, either. My 90 year-old relative was listed, and she doesn’t own anything.
Yes. What happened to that? It's interesting that we became more private in that regard while gushing personal information from sensors worn on our bodies 24/7.
They stopping printing phone books because everything is online.
Google your name and you’ll likely find much more information than the white pages ever had. I found an old email address of mine from the 90s that is long gone, every place I’ve ever lived, relationships to various family members, my parent’s address dating back decades, even my grandfathers last couple addresses and he’s been dead for over 20 years.
About 10 years ago someone on eBay tried to pull something on me and I was trying to figure out what I was dealing with. Within 45 minutes I had his name, parent’s names, phone number, and their address. I didn’t do anything with it, but it wasn’t that hard to find, with nothing more than a username or email address.
Scale I guess. No one but people nearby will have your local phonebook. And there would be no way to go through all the information even if someone had all phonebooks. The world used to be far more disconnected.