Your Amazon Profile

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

Keep your Amazon profile private. Just got this from Kim Komando.

 

You have an Amazon public profile

Did you know if you have an Amazon account, you have a public profile, too? Most people don’t have a clue this exists. Adding reviews to Amazon helps other shoppers, sure, but every review you’ve written is attached to your public profile.

The easiest fix? Hide your public profile (which, by the way, also shows your wish lists to the world).

• Log into your Amazon account, hover over Account & Lists, and click on Account.
• Scroll to Ordering and Shopping Preferences and click Your Amazon profile.
• Click the link in the box that says Edit your profile. Click the Edit profile public visibility tab to continue.
• Click Hide all activity on your public profile.

[John Kloehr]

Still leaves your name public even though the profile has no other information.

I removed my last name from the visible profile in addition to removing visibility for other profile details (wish lists, registries, purchase history). This will also remove reviews you have made, but I have not ever reviewed anything.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I just looked and except for a name, everything on mine is empty.

[Pat Riot]

I set mine up years ago so that the only thing people see in my reviews is my first name (nickname) and first initial of last name. All of my info is private on there except for wishlists that I give family members with Amazon accounts access to them. 
 

I wish I could find the website that I used when I first setup Amazon. It had  step by step instructions on using Amazon but keeping I go private. 
 

 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

The old telephone book (remember that?) had my name, my address, and my phone number in the white pages. Just below my residence, it had my business name, address, and telephone number.

 

Never thought of that as secret information, myself.....'course, it ddn't list my purchases.....

 

My dad's and grandad's  info was just above mine. No secret there, either.
 

[Rip Snorter]

6 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

The old telephone book (remember that?) had my name, my address, and my phone number in the white pages. Just below my residence, it had my business name, address, and telephone number.

 

Never thought of that as secret information, myself.....'course, it ddn't list my purchases.....

 

My dad's and grandad's  info was just above mine. No secret there, either.
 

A different world - who ever heard of Swatting?   Same old, time honored family protection methods still are valid.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

I don't like the fact that it's become hard to 'look people up'; friends and colleagues one hasn't seen in a long time, for example. You'll get names, but addresses and phone #s are treated as state secrets.

 

No problem the other way, for me. I'm easy to find by old pals; only one or two of me in the country.....

 

Hereabouts, I remember in the '80s, folks coming here from California had 'unlisted phone numbers'. Seemed normal to them, but not to us. But then that changed as time went by.

[Rip Snorter]

40 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

The old telephone book (remember that?) had my name, my address, and my phone number in the white pages. Just below my residence, it had my business name, address, and telephone number.

 

Never thought of that as secret information, myself.....'course, it ddn't list my purchases.....

 

My dad's and grandad's  info was just above mine. No secret there, either.
 

A different world - who ever heard of Swatting?   Same old, time honored family protection methods still are valid.

Edit" When I look up old friends, many have died.  Not a pleasant discovery - the survivors I would rather remember as they were when last I saw them.

Edited October 8 by Rip Snorter