If you're in the middle of buying or selling a home, you might want to take a look at what happened when local Knoxville blogger, The Modern Gal googled the soon to be new owner of her home:
I found out she and I went to the same college and were on the same Facebook and lucky for me! she didn't have her Facebook page set to private as everyone should. So I found out all I needed to know: she's a year younger than me, we have a couple mutual friends, she's a sorority girl, a marketing director of some company I've never heard of, but most importantly she was "In the process of buying a new house, which is really exciting. Yay..now people will actually have room to come stay with me and visit!"Luckily, in this case, nothing bad came from the buyer's excited Facebook postings. But it is a good reminder that as you're blogging/updating/posting/tweeting the details of your ongoing real estate transaction, the other side might very well be there reading right along.
Bingo.
I found all this after I had made my counteroffer, which she eventually accepted, so it was of no use to me in that department, but it did help me not freak out about the rest of the closing process.
