I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk,
But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
but the fact that they COULD and sometimes HAVE, is very concerning 😟
I wish sensitive information like that could be kept proprietary and wasn’t so easy for anyone in the world to access.
You know as a matter of fact, it’s much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life. Which is a good thing.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.
When I was a kid we had a phone book, it doxxed everyone with a land line.
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Hah, those were the days. On your topic though, yea it sucks the way celebrities are treated. It’s part of why they command such compensation (I think) they don’t get to live normal lives even if they wanted to. Becoming famous demands security to a degree most people aren’t familiar with at all.
You’d probably be surprised to learn how little some famous people make.
Some for sure.
If you own your home, it’s a matter of public record in most states. Hell, I once used to resolve a disagreement my wife and I were having over our neighbor’s name. Just looked up the property address on your county assessors website… They list the owners, when the property was last sold, the appraised value and taxes, and a bunch of other stuff.
Our county even makes marriage licenses searchable online.
We called it a phone book.
Exactly. As a Boomer who grew up in a small town with telephone “party lines” I just can’t be arsed to care. Come look in my windows if you need a thrill.
Fortunately that’s optional
Welcome to living in Sweden.
With a quick Google search you can find someone’s home address, income, social security number, birthdate, amount of owned vehicles, political work (if any), size of home, criminal record, and much more!
It fucking sucks for it all to be public information, but websites dedicated to collating it all under one roof is even worse.
Dafuq, I always thought that personal data was serious business in Sweden, unpleasant surprise
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Seems like a lot of people are unaware of white pages
In the olden days it was easier to look anyone up, the phone company would deliver a new phone book to everyone’s front door twice a year, how could we not all be at least a little fascinated to explore through all those pages and look up people we know from school etc? 😋
nowadays people have to go out of their way with an intention in their mind to go to a website and look people up on whitepages.com or peoplefinder.com etc and last time I noticed years ago, a fee is required to use those kind of sites.
The nice thing about being a regular person is that very few people have any reason to care.
If you buy something online, the merchant has your name and address. They could come to your house, but why would they?
The nice thing about being a regular person is that very few people have any reason to care.
One crazy ex (or, hopefully ex) and one’s tune changes quick.
Or sometimes you’re born into a shit family, and THEY stalk you when you try to get away.
yeah thankfully I don’t worry about such things whatsoever, but we’ve all heard in the news once in awhile these things do happen, for example a construction worker on a house came into the window of a sleeping child’s bedroom one night and kidnapped her
In the internet age, it’s incredibly easy to look up personal information about people like their address. Sorry, but you likely are easily searchable just like the rest of us.
yep, all my lifetime addresses are publicly searchable and easy to find online, but you’d be hard pressed to find me because I don’t live at any of those addresses.
Sorry but I don’t feel any sympathy for celebrities. They gave up the right to privacy the second they started getting free $7000 a bottle wines and iPads for free just because they’re famous.
And WTF is up with folks essentially worshipping celebs like Taylor Swift?
The thing that i don’t get is, if every celebrity’s phone number, adress and whatever got leaked tomorrow, i would visit and or call the just as much as now.
People admire those that do things they like. When a LOT of people like the same person it can turn into a feedback loop. Couple that with parasocial relationships and easy communication via the Internet and it can easily blow up. We’re also programmed to like people that are popular because others like them.
Google has a feature where it’ll tell you if your personal information shows up in their index and you can request they remove it from being served.
I can say that my personal information has shown up a few times.
You mean like the phonebook?
You mean, the phone book?
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Celebrities could retire into obscurity, go away and be forgotten, nobody would bother them. But they want and NEED to be hounded, stalked, chased and be the center of attention.
Am I rich like they are?
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Yeah. That’s bs though. Being rich and worried about it while you can afford security and large amounts of property and several vehicles and exclusive clubs and restaurants etc is 100% different than having to deal with the same issues, but with $60k a year instead.
Famous celebrity is a trade off. You’re giving everyone here only the option of taking on the bad portion, while having none of the good portion.
Also remember, most celebrities CHOOSE their fame/lifestyle. They want rich Famous with those issues over $60k and no fame and fortune.
Your giving everyone here only the option of taking on the bad portion, while having none of the good portion.
You’re examining this deeper than my original question. All I asked was: how would you feel if everyone in the world knew where your house is and where you sleep every night?
Slightly disturbed, I guess. It’s not very hard to find where a person lives if you want to, though.
I like how you delete every comment you have that goes negative and even edit the text to be “#” so you can’t get called out for your bad takes.
Their aspiration/ income is directly tied to how popular they are. You can’t have both. They have enough money to hide if they please
As I’m not a celebrity, I’m guessing there’s quite a few more options than most of us are aware of. One example I could think of is for the celeb to make an LLC and have that LLC buy the house they’re living in.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk, But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
I’m sure that nearly all celebrities/public figures, once a certain amount famous, encounter crazy people that they should be fearful of.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.
I don’t feel bad for them for this part. Its part of the price of being a public figure. I don’t know why people wish for fame. Seems like its a mountain of trouble to deal with.
Ooh I wonder if they could use their LLC to buy a decoy house so everyone in the world thinks they live there but they actually don’t.
The LLC would be a holding company, so on the deed instead of it saying “Taylor Swift” it would say “United Holdings Conglomerate LLC” as the deed.
okay that’s all fine and good, but eventually somehow the address of the place where the celebrity sleeps every night gets leaked, and the public gets all excited about it. This is what worries me on their behalf.
