October 2010 Weddings
Dear Community,

Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.

If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.

Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

Internet Security!

I saw this posted on my local board, FYI:

It was just brought to my attention that there is a  new website called www.spokeo.com that is a new online USA phone book  with some very personal information (pictures you've posted, your home  address, parents' names, credit score, home value, income, age.)  People can pay the website to access information about you. There  is a lot of information that most of us would prefer not to be public.

If you are listed, you can remove yourself by  searching for your name, then copy the URL of your page, and go to the  bottom right corner of the page and click on the Privacy button.  You  will be asked for the URL of your listing, your email address, and the  security code that is listed.  You will be sent a confirmation email  with further instructions.  I removed my record and it was done within  one minute.

Re: Internet Security!

  • Ugh, that site is so creepy. My old boss's wife e-mailed me (and like 30 other people) about it a few weeks ago. I meant to post about it but just forgot I guess. It had two listings for me. One was the house in Tennessee I lived in from age 7 to age 10. The other was my freshman dorm. Pretty random, considering I've lived in like 8 other houses/ apartments in my life.

    Either way, I deleted myself. Creepy stalker website.

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  • They couldn't find me (na, na, na na, na!) but Zach is in there for our apartment and his parents' house. I hate this kind of crap. It's YOUR information, YOU should be allowed say where it's put, not other people, and you shouldn't have to ask to have it removed.
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    ... It had two listings for me. One was the house in Tennessee I lived in from age 7 to age 10. The other was my freshman dorm. Pretty random, considering I've lived in like 8 other houses/ apartments in my life.

    The only listing they had for me was the post office box I rented 5 years ago, along with a picture of the post office as my "residence". So I'm not exactly concerned, but it's still creepy that anyone would be looking at that sort of thing.

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  • I wasn't on there either, and I had 3 names to check, (hyphenated maiden name (my legal name), just my dad's last name (what I went by in K-12 schooling) and my married name). Actually, my mom, dad and sister weren't on either, but my bro was.

     Also, DH thought it may be a scam by getting you to unregister so that they get your email...but I checked it out on snopes (my trusty-go to for internet truths) and it confirmed that's how you take yourself off their list.

     

  • Well my married name wasn't on there, but my maiden name was, with an awful lot of info. So I pulled it off and I passed it on to my parents.

    Thanks for posting this up!

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