Urgent Warning

That's scary.

 

Oh dang, Thats intense.
Thank god I don't use any pics for anything personal.

 

Thanks for the warning !

 

Not to be a creeper, but that's what I did with your image when I didn't know who that guy was. He looked familiar (sister is crazy for One Direction) so I copied and pasted your image into Google Image search and, voila, Niall Horan. (Apparently I am also not a good gay guy 'cause I couldn't recognize him.)



I swear I am NOT a stalker .

 

Two of my pictures are also on my facebook. So I URL googled them both, and neither of them came up with any results?

But cheers for the warning anyway.

 

This has always been the way since you could search by image...

Also, wouldn't people be more worried about people they know finding out they're on EC than the other way around?

MichaelB , put the URL into google images then when no results show up click 'search by image'

 

Try the "Drag and Drop" method. Open two screens. On one, go to Google and click on images. On the other (make sure you can see the Google search bar on the other screen), find the picture you want and click on it and drag it to the other window (drop the image directly on the Google Image search bar. Google will search the web for the same or similar picture. I tried it with a friend's facebook and it lead me to their old Myspace. So this method might work better.

 

I just tried it with some EC album photos but it doesn't work with those. Since the photos on one's profile are only visible for EC members, Google can't see them and thinks the link is invalid.

Avatars are public so they can be searched.

 

Ew, MySpace :icon_razz

 

Nope, still no results for either picture.

 

I searched my last.fm avatar and it didn't link to my Facebook profile (and yet if you search my full name, it does exactly that); it simply linked to webpages on last.fm's site.

And under 'similar images', this was one of them:



I DON'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THAT. Thank god. Or at least I hope.

(it came up with plenty of women too, so I'm doubting the accuracy of that particular feature)

 

You can go here (note: link will only work properly if you're logged in to Facebook), under "privacy settings", and check or uncheck a box to allow search engines to index your timeline. It's unchecked by default, I believe, which means that Google can't actually find any of your pictures unless you tell it to.

 

Yeah, great warning.

Personally, my online life doesn't track back to my (rather less interesting) real life. I have pictures on other sites, and if I'm really honest, people who know me can usually tell I'm the same person, but I'm not identifiable as a real person with a real life address.

 

Justin who?






:lol:

 

I haven't taken a photo of myself (nor allowed anyone to take mine) outside of governmental stuff (passport, insurance, etc) for the last maybe...7-8 years, so it's safe to say that nothing is out on the Internet about me, and I intend to keep it that way for now.