Want to be reached on your terms? We just launched a new feature that takes user control to a whole new level. You now have full control over how to be contacted and what identifying information we list for you. Start with your name – perhaps you go by a nickname or your middle name. Or you just want to be listed with your first initial. Then choose your preferred contact method: address, home phone, work phone, cell phone, text message, or email (the last two are masked, so users never see your email address or cell phone number). Finally, decide what identifying information you want to include so that people can be sure they are contacting the right person: household members, job title, company, or age. All of these are fully editable so that you can customize your listing just the way you like it. And if all of that isn’t cool enough to convince you, take this story as some inspiration…
Last summer, I found a Prada purse while walking to work. Inside, I found an ID with a name and address and then naturally looked the woman up on WhitePages. She had a home address listing but no way for me to get in touch with her immediately. Had she edited her listing prior to that incident, I could have called her cell, sent her a text message, or sent her an email to let her know I found her purse. Instead, it took days for her to be reunited with her belongings, which included a flash drive with her final paper for school on it!
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