Is Wink an Invasion of Privacy or another Zabba Search?
Wink is a people search index. There are now over five hundred million profiles. It indexes social network profiles. Wink has plans to increase to over one billion profiles in the next year. Wink launched in 2005 and changed in 2006 to indexing social network profiles across MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Bebo, LinkedIn, and more. It appears to be a different animal than ZabbaSearch but it does make it easier for those who want to find out more about you across more networks. You just have to be careful not to include contact or personal information. But what if Zabba Search and Wink combined? That would be truly an invasion of privacy.
But guess what? It is that. Right along the main navigation are information on a people search, background check, phone and number search. What does it say at the top?
“Find people by name and get their phone number, address, Websites, photos, work, school, more.”
This is dangerous indeed. Especially for children using these social networks as it should allow child predators to more easily track them down from a social network profile.