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Re: Rapleaf

I just joined Rapleaf and made all my information private. It's important to
know about these services so that we can try to manage the information out
there. I had to give them my email address, but they had that already.

Jacqueline A. Morris



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>>It just reinforces my intense desire to get off of Facebook. My desire to meet
online with friends and associates should not result in my being profiled by
everyone and anyone based on what Facebook allows me to say about myself,
particularly since Facebook, in my opinion, makes some of the most intelligent,
serious-minded people I know look like trivia-obsessed idiots, and I'm certain
that it does it to me, as well...>>



Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:00 pm

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(Dear ISF Colleagues: I'd be interested in hearing from any ISF members who have tried Rapleaf. What did you think? Can this be done in an appropriate way,...
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
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Jun 10, 2008
5:26 pm

<http://news.cnet.com/At-Rapleaf,-your-personals-are-public/2100-1038_3-6205716.html>...
Fuller, Theron K Mr I...
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Jun 10, 2008
6:12 pm

It just reinforces my intense desire to get off of Facebook. My desire to meet online with friends and associates should not result in my being profiled by...
Peter Campbell
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Jun 10, 2008
6:14 pm

Interesting perspective and definitely someething to consider, but I think it's good to keep in mind that this information should not be used by itself, but...
hshess
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Jun 10, 2008
7:18 pm

My personal response, and I have not been a privacy advocate in the past - and though I had almost no personal information posted on any of the sites, was to...
Richard H. Roth
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Jun 11, 2008
2:22 pm

Richard, Rather than opting out of all social networking sites, why not just opt out of Rapleaf: http://www.rapleaf.com/opt_out I did. Or are your concerns...
Robert Weiner
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Jun 11, 2008
4:26 pm

I have never been a privacy advocate - but I seem to be shifting. Until and unless I get to own my "own" personal information I am beginning to have serious...
Richard H. Roth
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Jun 12, 2008
2:14 pm

I share this immediate reaction - I understand the allure of using databases like these as well as contact management services that you upload your contacts...
Helen Seal
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Jun 11, 2008
4:27 pm

I just joined Rapleaf and made all my information private. It's important to know about these services so that we can try to manage the information out there....
Jacqueline A. Morris
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Jun 11, 2008
8:38 pm

I know Rapleaf and their CEO Auren Hoffman, great guy. Basically, Rapleaf only searches publicly available information from blogs, forums, social networks,...
Matt Turck
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Jun 10, 2008
7:19 pm

... Dear Jacqueline, and other esteemed colleagues: I just did as you suggested, although it seems unfair to make me do that. I'd prefer it if Rapleaf used an...
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
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Jun 11, 2008
9:23 pm

Deborah, I'm right there with you on this recommendation (except for the psycho ex -- mine have all been relatively sound of mind. Then again, they dated...
Peter Campbell
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Jun 12, 2008
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