can anyone advise me how to hide my sh profile from i being able to be accessed on google....i have been made aware that you can access profiles and info about user ids on google...i have hidden it on another site but cannot find the privacy settings on sh to hide this profile from general searches on google
my hubby searched my id although it doesnt show my pics it shows various things i have posted which i find a little alarming....as i prefer descretion...i have managed to change my settings elsewhere and have attempted to hide them from here...i'll try in the morning after logging off for a while to see if it has worked...they are still showing at the mo though
The best way to protect yourself is not to make face pics public. Set up a private album and only open it to those members you trust and/or intend to meet.
That way you are well protected. I never put face pics in the public album.
Travis
I've just done a search for 'Lilmiss' and it brought nothing back relating to me.
in the past when this was mentioned i did a search for my name and it bought up all my posts here !
The forums have not been hidden from google, the rest of the site is.
Your ads and profile cannot be found via google, but I am dissapointed the forum posts are not protected, it wouldnt take much.
The only reason I can suggest it isnt hidden is for advertising the site and generating more interest by using our forum banter to match search terms.
I would like a site admin to comment on this, although im sure the T&Cs have it covered, if the forum posts are going to remain 100% searchable via google I would expect to be allowed a name change free of charge.
I joined when this was a much smaller site, and half the world didnt know what google was, I used my real name as Im not ashamed of anything I do and didnt care if people who visited the site found out, even if they knew me IRL.
Although I dont mind sharing my thoughts with other members or people browsing the site Im not sure some of my bad jokes and dirty bastard tales would go down too well with potential clients or employers, or my 85 year old gran, who I have taught to use email and the net, including googling things.
If I put into google "justwantfun swinging heaven" it brings up our ads.
Brings up just about everything on us including ads
We don't use our real names on here at all but there are photos of me that come up when I put in a search with our profile name.
To be honest, I'd really rather that didn't happen, however I work on the principle that a person would have to know our profile name (or randomly guess it) and combine it with the site name in the same search, so it's highly unlikely that anyone would put all those criteria in together as a search and then find the link to us on here and then think "hey that's my cousin / colleague / daughter"..... I hope!
Never post anything online you don't want the world to know :thumbup:
Nothing on the internet can ever be guarenteed to be private. Hiding identifiable pictures and not giving personal details in posts and adverts is the key thing.
I can understand the desire for personal data safety but the web is too big and too free (and long may it remain so!!!!) to be considered a safe place.
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