Hide Your Number With Google Voice

In this day and age, it is incredibly easy to use a cell phone look up service to find someone's phone number. If someone has a cell phone, odds are good that you can find it. There are many valid reasons to look up someone's cell phone using such a service. Whether you need to contact a coworker in emergency, want to get back in contact with an old friend, or want to figure put who is calling you, modern services can do so with relative ease.

With this power, though, comes great risk: if you can find someone else's number easily using phone number search tools, then can't someone just as easily look up your number?

The answer, of course, is "Yes." Given the power of cell phone tracker tools, it is never safe to simply assume that your cell phone number is private. Just about anyone can find your cell phone number using phone number search services. However, you can take reasonable precautions to ensure that your phone number is as private as possible. One such precaution is to start using a Google Voice anonymous phone number with all except the most trusted individuals in your life. Keep in mind, though, that any method to safeguard your number can only go so far.

Google Voice Can Prevent Cell Phone Look Up Abuse

Ever since Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) was released, users, have loved its simplicity and ease-of-use. Google Voice works as a central phone number which will ring all of your phone numbers simultaneously. By using a free Google Voice phone number as your central phone number, you can avoid giving away your real cell phone or landline number to people when you meet them.

Why is this valuable?

Because, with Google Voice, if someone does ascertain your phone number using a  cell phone lookup service or other similar tool, you can simply block their number. By using Google Voice as your primary phone number, you will have much more control over who can or cannot contact you on your cell phone. With most mobile phone providers, you must pay extra in order to block unscrupulous individuals' phone numbers if they harass you.

Limitations of Google Voice's Cell Phone Tracker Protection

Using Google Voice to shield your real phone numbers from phone number search tools is not without its limitations, however. As mentioned previously, Google Voice should only be seen as a buffer to shield your phone number.

If you are truly concerned with privacy, you should get in contact with your cell phone provider regarding privacy protection services. Most cell phone providers allow you to remove your cell phone number from public listing and cell phone look up services. This action, combined with keeping your cell phone number private by solely using a Google Voice number as your inbound number. If you don't give away your phone number and prevent individuals from looking up your number, then you'll have a safe (if not flawless and impenetrable) barrier-to-entry for those who want to look up your number.

Keeping Your Phone Number Private: Difficult, But Possible

We live in a transparent world. Keeping personal information private is difficult, but not impossible, with the right precautions. While those who are truly hell-bent on finding your cell phone number with a cell phone lookup tool will surely find a way to do so, keeping your phone number close to your chest, removing your number from public listings, and using a Google Voice number with all but your most trusted friends, family members, and coworkers will allow you to keep your number as private as possible.