Miss Ostrich My friend Laura has been dating this guy for about two months. They're both shy kids who don't have the guts to ask questions each other about their pasts, if they're in a relationship together or just casually dating, or ask if it would be okay to add each other on Facebook. To remedy this, Laura internet stalks him.
Internet stalking is when you use tools like Google, MySpace and Facebook to find out more information about a person without having to ask him.
Everyone does it. I do it. I've internet stalked everyone from the people I've dated to my college professors, which I regret because I found a picture of one of them naked once...
So far Laura has Googled him and the search came up with zero results, then couldn't find him on MySpace, but she confirmed he does have a Facebook. I told her to just add him! What's the big deal?
She says he keeps saying not to bother because he only adds people from his school, but now she's worried he's keeping something from her. So, instead of adding him to her OWN Facebook, she made a FAKE page and hopes he'll add that person so she can be nosy on his profile. She's taking internet stalking to a whole new level.
Do you internet stalk (you know you do!)? What kind of dirt have you found because of internet stalking?
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I internet stalk myself, sometimes. Just out of curiosity. But other people? Never.
Hm. Yeah, she's probably taking it too far, but I am curious about why the guy refuses to add her. It's not that big of a deal...
Hm well I don't know if it's stalking, but I went through my ex-boyfriend's facebook messages and texts. I basically found that he was dating his ex at the same time he was dating me, and that he was dating a new girl now, even though she knows he's cheated on her. =)
what kind of a stupid relationship is that? weird.
ill second that. Thats not a relationship, i wouldnt even qualify it as a friendship
Aren't people usually more open with one another after two months? If I were her I would be curious of why he won't add her. I mean, "I only add people from my school." is a really pathetic 'excuse' for not adding her, considering they've been in a relationship for two months. So he'll add somebody he doesn't know well, so long as they go to his school - but he won't add his own girlfriend? Yeah, something is off about that.
She is taking it a little too far, though. If she's got issues with him not letting her add him, she needs to talk to him about it. I mean she's being pretty paranoid while he probably has NO idea that she's doing it.
I don't internet stalk anybody. Stalking is more than just looking someone up out of curiosity - kind of like what she's doing. I would say she's internet stalking him. I google myself, my family, my friends; all out of curiosity and boredom. I have NEVER found any dirt on anybody though.
Internet stalking is lame. Get over the shyness and just ask questions, people always get the wrong impression online.
Haha, my boyfriend confessed that he has done that when it came to me. He googled me and has gone through all my Myspace comments, oh and of course... making a Xanga for himself just to read all my blogs and everyone's comments on there. Tis' kinda' creepy o.o Any dirt on me? No, but jealousy issues for him? Mosdef.
who hasnt done it?
I do sometimes...but always on FB, and mainly to catch up with the lives of my friends. We all stalk e/o on FB to keep up. My fiancé and I just share everything, and besides we spend most of our time together anyway--what could he possibly be doing while he's sitting in class?
Stalking to "discover" secrets just makes you paranoid about the small things, IMHO.
well i think anybody who has a facebook is almost made into a stalker...i mean u log in and already u know what stacey is doing in 15 minutes and how dan's night was...
and then you see pics from some girls night because a couple of your freinds were tagged....
its inevitable....
humans already have a natural curiousity for everything. we are very nosey creature so when you make it that easy for us to be nosey...youre essentially enabling our nosiness and it ends up being stalkerish...
im guilty of it and im sure pretty much everyone else who had a profile is guilty of it.
easy way to find info on ppl without directly asking. Its kind of become the natural thing to be like if someone mentions someone they saw at a party or whatever...n u dont know who their talking abt they just go "oh well ill fb them n show u who they are..."
so if u have a profile dont expect privacy...ur going into this knowing someone will be prying because you put yourself in that position to have your life public.
Kinda creepy o-o; .
I haven't done it.
Sounds creepy but i internet stalk all the time. I don't do it for myself, I do it for other people who need information. I am the gossip & information queen. I know everything about tons of people i know. It's ridiculous, but it's like a job & it's so easy
LOL I do it.
I think he does it, too.
i do it!! hehe it fun but not till faking a profile!lol thats crazy...
no dirt found in anyone i stalked!:(
hhahaha yess, it keeps me informed on who the current guy is talking to
Not really.
My friend and I hacked our freinds facebook to mess with him ( like his pic and the stuff he likes) as a joke and found a girl asked him out to go to the prom...he told her no. I myself would stalk girls I like on facenook to see what kind of music they like and stuff.
That's why I'm not on FB or MySpace. I've only cyber-stalked people to find out their age and what they look like. I'm a curious cat...
That's pretty lame.
Is she dating him? Or are they just f**K buddies? He probably is hiding something....if he won't even add her on his friend's list.
Wait, they've been dating for two months and aren't facebook friends yet? I friend people the day after I meet them.
Hahah that's very funny.
haha i think i internet stalk through facebook, but never to that extent. just to kind of catch up with what's up?
... if she's dating him then why is so scared to add him on facebook? doesn't make much sense.