Beware Spokeo, among other things

Well well, it seems that our world has gotten that much smaller.
Ever hear of Spokeo? It's a social networking search engine. Their tag line is: Uncover personal photos, videos and secrets... guaranteed! They promise to find you 'juicy' and 'truly mouth-watering news about friends and co-workers.' I assume that also includes information about ex-boyfriends/ girlfriends, current boyfriends/ girlfriends, or other objects of your desire. Or frienemies. Think of the power! Hey, with access to 41 major social networks I assume you could find some spine tingling details about people.
Spokeo is just one of several new services geared at crawling every available social networking site and dig up dirt on the people you know. It has competition with fellow sites Pipl and CVGadget, but the premise is the same. It's basically cyberstalking in it's laziest, the site does all the work and you reap the benefits. I believe that Spokeo allows you to import your email address book and you can set up alerts on people and get instant updates on their digital life.
Services such as Spokeo now bring to light things that people probably wanted to keep hidden from ceratin folks. The best thing about social networks and blogs is that there was a degree of anonymity to them. You could set them to private, invite only certain friends to your profile, or interact with a certain circle of cyber friends. Now everyone can know what you buy at Amazon.com, what your latest Tweets are, or read your touching Battlestar Galactica fan fic at SciFi.com.
The question is, how much do you want to know about the people in your life? How much do you want people to know about you?Although these sites are perfectly legal, there is a stalker-ish feeling to them with a hint of voyeur. I am wondering where this particular ride will stop, or if it will keep going. And, will I edit myself more and the gap between my real life and online life slowly closes?