Comments on: Wrong Number Flirt

By: Nevermoraven

Nevermoraven — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:35:04 +0000

Disturbingly amusing. Thumbs up.

By: Sage

Sage — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:54:39 +0000

I have made sure my facebook is privacy protected. I have never had my mobile phone online ever And online, I go by an alias name to … Only people VERY close to me know my real name and my contact details.

But this is just downright creepy once the amusement wears off.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:20:43 +0000

So what if everybody can see my number?
No problem.
Why are people suddenly so obsessed with so called ‘privacy’.
In the pre-internet era there were Telephone directories with EVERYBODYS telephone numbers in them FFS!

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By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:34:49 +0000

I’ve been planning on making my Google Voice number public, but not forwarding it so that all calls go straight to voicemail. I did have the GV Widget to leave me voicemail on my blog for a while, but nobody ever used it.

By: Malthe

Malthe — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:51:50 +0000

What did the convorsation entail? I assume this is in a picture, but as I’m blind my screen reader won’t recognize it. Do tell

By: Rich.H

Rich.H — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:28:07 +0000

That text probably made your day! “lets just say i made your night lastnight” – like it!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:53:21 +0000

I probably talk on the phone 2 or 3 times a week, tops, including calling my Mom on Sundays.

By: Elissa

Elissa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:46:02 +0000

Weird. I don’t have my phone number on my Facebook profile and I don’t think I give out my number unless absolutely necessary because I hate talking on the phone and often think email will suffice… I have gotten a few random texts before, and when that’s happened I’ve Facebook-searched the number, sometimes with hits, sometimes without.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:30:08 +0000

I have also seen people with lost or stolen phones make exactly this sort of request on Facebook, and they always seem to get at least a couple of dozen phone numbers in response.

By: erica

erica — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:29:44 +0000

^5 for that! Id like to see it happen too!

By: donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:16:31 +0000

WHOIS privacy is a bit of a minefield – not providing your actual contact details is a breach of ICANN rules, no exception made for privacy service users, immediate loss of the domain in any UDRP case.

The UDRP process has become horribly corrupted, there is no mechanism to stop the commercially-driven arbitration forums from chasing ever higher claimant win percentages (their customers are the claimants – the guys who initiate the disputes – and claimants choose which forum to use based on these publicly updated figures) and, as such, the forums will use any excuse or technicality to hand a domain to a claimant. All sorts of domain collectors are taking advantage of this, there’s big money to be made, especially if the current owner has decent traffic.

Of course, the vast majority of domains used with WordPress.com would be worth too little to be in danger, but anything with a combined brand and SEO value of over a grand will increasingly be a target. A few high-profile losses, with your privacy service as the named reason, would be at worst a financial liability, at best a PR nightmare for Automattic.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:49:47 +0000

That’s a really good point — many tech-savvy people put just as much information and more (their address) on their domain registration, including a self-professed privacy-conscious person like you. This is why I want to introduce private domain registration on WP.com.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:47:04 +0000

I don’t think it’s stupid, it’s just a different understanding and expectation around privacy, in this case of phone numbers. I suspect this was either “didn’t know” or “didn’t care.”

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:45:15 +0000

Scoble has always had his cell phone number right in the sidebar of his blog — I’ve always thought it was pretty ballsy.

By: femaleprodigy

femaleprodigy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:33:17 +0000

Its amazing what some people will do when they THINK only a few people can see it. Funny thing is, I’ve seen this done NUMEROUS times on facebook.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:50:33 +0000

That’s a hilarious wrong number incident!

I bet none of those people even checked the privacy status of the group they posted their numbers to…

By: Theresa

Theresa — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:40:58 +0000

Exactly why I don’t have a Facebook profile or anything else too public for that matter. I am a pretty private person and would hate to have my phone number out there for everyone to see. Guess I should put a guard on my domains if that’s the case then.. huh? Pretty awkward conversation btw.

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By: Chey

Chey — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:35:45 +0000

Wow, that’s happened to me before! I got a text when I still had a cell that said, “Hey, I had fun last night!” And i was so confuzed! I was like, “Who’s this?” n got, “Ur “friend” from last night!” I was all, umm, u have the wrong number!” Ad he said “oh, wait this isn’t Maggie?” I’m all, “N! This is her best Friend!” Turns out, my bff gave him my # by accident! ewwww…….Creep Factor!

~Chey

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:56:10 +0000

Wow! That’s just horrible… And the worst thing is that there are dozens of pages like this one on FB. Interesting find Matt!

By: domas

domas — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:46:31 +0000

Hah, I was expecting a longer story though I had few more than one hour long talks when people dialed wrong number

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:08:18 +0000

Nope, they probably don’t have a clue and that’s pretty typical. I’ve even seen (ie. been invited to) non-private groups with the invitee’s new phone number in the group name…

By: Derek Wood

Derek Wood — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:37:48 +0000

I’m sure there’s no harm done. She’s only left all of their numbers sitting up there since… er, March of ’09.