We promised a few weeks ago that we would tell you where the info on your Rapleaf profile was coming from - and we’re happy now to release that functionality to the public. We’ve added a super simple way to see how Rapleaf obtained your profile info, and we point you to the source to correct it.
If you go to a Rapleaf profile, you can scroll over an attribute to see its source. For example, if you scroll over the Gender attribute, you will see the text “Gender found via: sitename” under the information area. Additionally, if the source is one of the sites listed under the profile’s “Memberships” section, the corresponding site will be highlighted.
If information was found on multiple sites, we’ll tell you every site that we found it on.
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Information sources will help you better utilize Rapleaf to manage your online information - by pointing you to the sources of the info, you can easily correct any wrong information that you may have out there.
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October 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
ok, so how did you get the link between my email and my facebook profile? eh?
I barely use facebook and have never posted, or emailed, a link to my profile in the outside world.
I message friends through facebook.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
and no my profile is not google-able - I turned that off.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I’m sorry to say that this is not working as described.
When i hover my mouse over the social network, it still doesn’t tell me how you came about that information.
Dont get me wrong, knowing you managed to guess that I was male/female is of huge importance to me; but i’m still far more concerned with how you aquired my social networking websites.
Especially as two of them are not linked to anyone else, and according to facebook therefore are not able to be searched from the internet.
Again, it’s words words words from RapLeaf, but still no protection for the user…
October 8th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Steven + Geoff –
The information sources apply only to the age, gender, location, occupation fields. We apologize for any confusion about that.
Keep in mind that we use publicly accessible tools to locate your social network profiles. You can easily manage your privacy settings on Rapleaf or other sites to better control what people see about you.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Ah, so if your admiting your post is misleading, i’m sure you’re going to change it. Right?
I mean you’ve admited that you’ve caused confusion when can we see you correcting your mistake?
or is this more lies from RapLeaf?