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  1. P.H.

    P.H. Active Member

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    This is kind of scary: I just now googled homeschool spot, like I always have, and the first item that showed up was the homeschool spot powered by vbulletin, like usual. However, the second item was homeschool spot: view profile Prairie Home. (!!!) Why was I singled out???
     
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  3. becky

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    Prairie, maybe because it was you that did the search. I just googled homeschool spot and didn't get anything about any specific member. I'm no computer whiz, but maybe that's all it was.
     
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    Whew! Thanks for saying that! I wonder what I did to change things. It's the first time out of the (hundreds? thousands?) of times I've visited that Prairie Home showed up!
     
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    Praire Home, I goolgled avatars the other day and I was glancing over the items and was thinking " oh, someone else goes by ABall" and I realized it was a link off of the AtoZ board. I meant to mention it the other day and kinda got side tracked with the trip to the hospital!
     
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    How does that type of thing make it out onto the web? Does someone have to enter it somewhere? And is there any way to delete it?
     
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    I did it too Becky and the front page of homeschool spot came up and nothing else.
     
  8. Lornaabc

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    Kris and I talked about needing a more private spot where you have to be members invited to join and that would be safer.

    LOrna
     
  9. P.H.

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    Would that exclude unidentified, public lurkers?
     
  10. KrisRV

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    Yes, that's what Lorna and I are worried about so many people unidentified, never figure out why? Maybe just looking I don't know.

    Lorna, when I get settle we will check into one ok.
     
  11. P.H.

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    'Sounds good. I hope it works out. The count down is on for your trip, Kris--one week! Blessings!
     
  12. P.H.

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    'Strange! The entry on the Google search that had previously listed Prairie Home's public profile, now lists the thread "Our Local Group in the News!" I wonder if that's a random selection.
     
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    I just googled it and got a thread from the "introduction" section from one of our new members. Very weird!
     
  14. P.H.

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    Yep! Mine is on the introduction section now, too.
     

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