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I Love Spock asked a question in Spock on March 17, 2008 22:12:

Myspace Info

How come my Myspace information appears?

I Love Spock replied on March 12, 2008 23:45 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

Disrupsean,

The reason why I like catgofires metaphor better is because in addition to helping to explain Spock, it also helps to explain why people need to read the fine print before signing up for something. If you want to be on Facebook that's great. If you want to be on Facebook, but not on Yahoo, Google, Spock, etc- which connect people to a persons Facebook profile-then make your Facebook profile private.

I Love Spock replied to "How the !@#$ do I get off of your god awful website?", but it was removed. see the change log

I Love Spock replied on March 12, 2008 01:16 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

I like catgofire's metaphor much better.

I Love Spock marked one of catgofire's replies in Spock as useful. catgofire replied to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you.". I Love Spock and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I Love Spock replied to "How the !@#$ do I get off of your god awful website?", but it was removed. see the change log

I Love Spock replied to "How the !@#$ do I get off of your god awful website?", but it was removed. see the change log

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I Love Spock replied on February 26, 2008 09:54 to the problem "Spock: Please stop spamming us." in Spock:

Sean,

I'm assuming you already clicked the unsubscribe link. If not then please e-mail me directly (patrick@corp.spock.com)

I Love Spock replied on February 26, 2008 00:44 to the problem "Spock: Please stop spamming us." in Spock:

Disrupsean,

Please note that any e-mail you've received from Spock is a user generated invitation meaning that a contact of yours has invited you to join Spock. If you'd like to unsubscribe from any Spock notification I suggest you click on the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of every e-mail
(http://www.spock.com/do/public/unsubs...)

Once you click on the unsubscribe link you will receive a confirmation e-mail where it provides a link to confirm.

We're well aware that no one likes to receive unwanted e-mails which is why we give our users a variety of e-mail settings to use and enable non users to easily unsubscribe.

I Love Spock marked one of catgofire's replies in Spock as useful. catgofire replied to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you.". I Love Spock and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I Love Spock marked one of catgofire's replies in Spock as useful. catgofire replied to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you.". I Love Spock and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I Love Spock replied on February 20, 2008 21:08 to the question "Why do some people have results but no entries?" in Spock:

The search results you see are for cases when we don't have an indexed search result. The links are various results found throughout the Web.

I Love Spock replied on February 20, 2008 20:59 to the problem "invalid date message on profile edit" in Spock:

Chris,

Please e-mail me (patrick@corp.spock.com) with the information that you'd like entered and I'll look into the problem.

I Love Spock replied on February 20, 2008 20:57 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

Maria,

Please make sure that your Facebook profile is set to private. By removing your picture from Facebook you don't ensure that you won't be reindexed. You should then claim your search result and flag it writing "delete me" in the comments field.

I Love Spock replied on February 19, 2008 23:41 to the question "Why aren't Personal News Pages also RSS Feeds? Seems like a natural." in Spock:

David,

Your proposal is in the works and should be released in the next few weeks.

I Love Spock replied on February 19, 2008 23:38 to the problem "I can opt out of Rapleaf, why can't I opt out of you?!" in Spock:

JOD,

Removing yourself from Spock is fairly easy given that you need only to make whichever source that was crawled private and then flag your search result. As far as opting out of notifications and invitations we have a similar unsubscribe option found at the bottom of every e-mail and in your settings page. With regard to removing yourself from everything, this may be a reference to the concept of removing yourself from any search engine such as Google or Yahoo which would include the necessary step of going down to your local public records department and having all of your information made private. I'm assuming that would probably take a while.

I Love Spock replied on February 19, 2008 23:27 to the idea "Can't withdraw a vote" in Spock:

Jorg,

By selecting the blue voting triangle you can "Change Your Vote" and then "Remove you Vote" which should withdraw your name from your contributions page and from the tag.

I Love Spock replied on February 19, 2008 23:22 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

Maria,

You most likely have a public facebook profile but are unaware. You should be able to set it as private in your settings page. Keep in mind that just because your picture is visible doesn't mean that people can see your entire Facebook Profile. WIth that in mind you may want to consider enhancing your Spock search result so that if a friend is looking for you it increases the chance they'll be able to find you.
As far as Facebook Applications are concerned, Spock does have a few but they all clearly state that signing up will link you to a Spock Search result. I hope this helps

I Love Spock replied on January 24, 2008 19:13 to the problem "I hate data harvesting, and I refuse to use your service." in Spock:

The real question is are you a good friend for not changing the information that your friend was a female when you had the ability to? We don't make assurances that we have 100% true information, however we feel that we generally do a good job in creating an easy to view platform for people search, and that the information you see is generally true.

If you want to look further into fully removing yourself from everything check out Spock's about page (http://www.spock.com/do/pages/online_...). Remember that you can still be on a variety of Social Networking sites without being concerned about being Spammed. Look into a what security settings a site offers and go from there.