Comments on: DirtyPhoneBook.com

By: Gregory

Gregory — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:53:19 +0000

DirtyPhoneBook.com is truly a piece of trash and Mr. Green is pond scum of the first order, but sorry to report this to all of you ‘good intentioned parents’, in this time of supposedly heighten anti-bullying, little Johnny and cute little Jane are probably little bully trolls when out of your sight sight. My daughter was recently sexually text abused by one of her friends. I traced the number back to a known friend, spoke to his parents who were ‘shocked’, only later to find out Johnny’s phone had fallen into the hands of another friend who thought it would be funny. Oh, and his parents were equally ‘schocked’. All of these kids were ‘good, clean cut, upstanding, over achievers’ at a local Catholic Prep School. You see folks, we (us parents) are raising a generation of cowards, liars, super-bullies and snotty little brats and DirtyPhoneBook.com is just another manifestation of this plight. Oh, I know, your Johnny or Jane is different. Bovine excrement! The sad thing for me, after all I went through to protect my daughters ‘dignity’, she was mad at ME for making a ‘big deal’ over something they do all the time. Think about it my fellow parents, when you are sitting around the boob tube watching “American Dad”, “The First 48 Hours”, “The Hills”, “Big Brother”, “One Tree Hill”, “Jersey Shores” – the list goes on and on, you’re teaching your kids that low life behavior, bullying, petty and serious crime, drinking, drugs, corruption, lying, cheating, etc. are all things to be chasing after. Parents in this country need to grow up even more than our children do. It’s time that parents snap out of their self induced technology coma. Your kids know more than you do about the Internet and they are playing you (us) for fools – no matter how boo-boo lipped they get when they get ‘hurt’ by something posted on the Internet.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:29:24 +0000

DirtyPhoneBook.Com is irresponsible and potentially dangerous. I did a search on my 14 year old daughter and found her cell phone number and facebook information. Although there were no comments, anyone can contact her on facebook or call her, and I’ve been unsuccessful in removing her information. Now isn’t that scary?

By: o

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:27:35 +0000

Please leave here info on any lawyers who can sue Peter Green and his website

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:01:02 +0000

About four months ago, someone anonymous hacked my old hotmail account, got access to my personal information, and posted my full name and phone number and my now defunct email address to Dirty Phonebook – along with some very explicitly sexual remarks. As a result, I received thousands (yes, thousands) of unwanted texts (some containing “anthony weiner” photos) and phone calls. I had to change my number. Someone tried to break into my house at the height of it.

The site won’t take my information down despite a police report for harassment caused by their site. It’s now the first hit when you google my name – and I’m the only “me” in the United States – which is horrible professionally considering what the post says about me.

None of the info posted was true. I have no idea who did it.

If that’s what some of you would call humorous, well….

By: sky

sky — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:39:19 +0000

Dirty Phone Book is a terrible website, it is not a “creative” venture nor does foster social networking or good humor in any way. The only thing that’s funny about the website is how sad it all is, that this is what our culture is about now. My number was somehow put on the website, along with my full name and a url for my faebook profile, without consent obviously. Apparently some other people have attempted to get there numbers removed to no avail because dirtyphonebook.com simply does not respond to such requests. Is there a way to get my number removed permanently from there database?

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By: Mike Stewart

Mike Stewart — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:13:44 +0000

Wow. First time ever on DirtyPhoneBooks.com. I must say that I really don’t like the intent of the site. It is the worst of the worst bathroom wall. No community of moderators or concern for innocent victims. Horrible if you ask me. The worst of the worst.

I also have seen iAccuse.com and feel that if validated by an admin or community, it has merit since the accuser has to include identity and info. The point is that the accused need to be able to respond. If not given the opportunity to respond the site becomes as DIRTY as DirtyPhoneBook.com

That being said. I like the idea of a forum to discuss reviews, recommendations and fraud. I do not like the ability for the accused to not respond or find the information.

Maybe it is time to create a directory for people linking them to all the ratings and review sites with information on people and companies?

You can only push so much off the first page in reputation management before you consider why the reputation is so terrible.

Honesty hurts those who are not honest.

My 2 cents.

By: David Gibson

David Gibson — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:21:51 +0000

I think you’re both sort of right. Silver is right that the comments can definitely hurt some people. Mike is right that the comments are hilarious and there’s real entertainment value in this.

I see it a little bit like chatroulette. Chatroulette is 95% older men exposing themselves to teens yet I still think the concept of chatting with anybody randomly has immense value. I don’t think chatroulette will be covered in penises forever.

I think the DirtyPhonebook has potential to be valuable down the road. What if you could use it to expose scammers on craigslist or figure out if your girlfriend is cheating on you? You can’t really use anything like facebook to do that.

Like Wayne Gretzky said, look at where the puck is going, not where it is right now.

By: Silver

Silver — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:57:26 +0000

Mike, I'm not really big on cruel humor. If you had to work on some of the online harassment and reputation issues I've worked upon for friends, acquaintances and clients, you'd probably not be so quick to laugh, either. It doesn't take any real cleverness to do insult humor or to use utterly foul language to talk about someone. But, it does take us all down a notch as a society. I'm not humorless - I find FAIL Blog pretty funny (by the people who did I Can Has Cheezburger) - but, I think the difference is that it's not presented as a site for the express purpose of attacking and denigrating individuals. There's certainly humor at the expense of others, but it's not insulting nor specific -- it's not tied to personally-identifiable info like people's phone numbers. It's not really cruel.

By: Mike Martin

Mike Martin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:43:12 +0000

I’m a technical person and a reader of the dirtyphonebook website on a daily basis. The content on the site (when you let users comment anonymously and uncensored) is hysterical and something that I have not seen from any recent start-ups. None of the technical blogs are writing about the entertainment value of the site. It’s fresh, witty and funny and to me that has value. As technical people we should stop looking for all the baby blue colored sites, with fancy algorithms, that don’t do anything but “make my Facebook better”. We should give a golf clap to them for their original concept (social profiles based on phone numbers), and just admit that it’s a good idea that makes you laugh.