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Un-effin-believeable!!!
http://www.kens5.com/home/-Facebook-friends-could-change-your-credit-score-221186211.html
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)why everyone isn't MORE pissed about this.....THIS is what is really invasive and unfair. What now....you have to check the credit scores of people before you friend them? You know so their bankruptcy doesn't drag your score down?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...and loan sharky payday lenders.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Up, down, and sideways.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Who would want to borrow money from some company called Lenddo? That's like buying a used car from Honest John.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Now there's a good tag line for Lenddo.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)" Cheatum Motors", then there was "Terminal drugs"
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)FSogol
(45,485 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)You can be sure that they've either already explored this or will do so soon.
There are many people who are unscorable because they have insufficient credit histories but that doesn't mean that they are bad credit risks. To be able to tap into that population and figure out the better risks would be a boon to credit marketers.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)If the big players find it lucrative, it will become commonplace. And if you delete your Facebook account, that will most assuredly be a "detractor" for you for not having one!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)True, some are professionals like myself, but others live on benefits.
And most of the rest of them are ex-DUers, which may not be helping me out that much.
Lex
(34,108 posts)for assessing credit worthiness unless they are fly-by-night outfits. Even the article basically states that.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)A former CIO of Google thinks it may have merit -- so much so that his new startup is trying to build it into their scoring model.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/wonga_lenddo_lendup_big_data_and_social_networking_banking.2.html
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)I hate that our society has ingrained in us how "normal" it is to borrow money and owe others.
Lex
(34,108 posts)joeglow3
(6,228 posts)Yes, the level of idiocy we see today is very new.
dsteve01
(312 posts)want to sell me Viagra
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Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Also thankfully, I don't even check my account there but about once a month. DU's a helluva a lot more fun than FB any day!