Facebook

It seems to me that we have opened up a portal to creeps and stalkers everywhere. But the term stalker, in the last five years has even gone through its own kind of portal, it's changed. It's not just the creepy guy that follows you home, or calls you every minute of the day. A stalker is more normal now, transcending from the outcasts of society to the middle of a revolution. We, you and I, are stalkers.

It recently occurred to me while talking to an old friend on a 'Facebook Chat' that I could learn everything about them, well at least everything that they wanted to tell me. This is something that years back was thought of as something sick, to know so much personal information about someone generally was not warranted by the constructs of our society. But now we pass the information, photos, videos and souls of ourselves for others to see. I understand the concept that you allow only what you want known about you onto your page, and even if that information is just for 'friends' there's no telling who could actually be looking, or learning that information.

Even though I do know that you can put up information that you want to share publicly, I think the peer pressure to put up more revealing information has had a large effect on the majority of the populace, and this information probably should be guarded. Even the idea of putting up simple information, birthday, jobs, things you support become something you want to do, just so that you don't have to answer the gibber jabber questions of small talk when talking to a fellow stalker. This alleviates the much hated 'small talk' that our society seems to shun like the plague.

I am typing on a public computer. If I close this web browser in a hurry, it signs out of none of my online public domains, so the next user would just have to open the web browser and go back to the same site, which Myspace or Facebook are quite popular. That means, the people here in this room that are not me, could be writing this, or looking at you.

It's kind of a scary thought, the risks you run. That you could have someone knowing tons of information about you, your friends, your loved ones. But you have to remember, we are all stalkers now, not only because we look up old friends and even new people, but we've allowed the simple possibility of being stalked. I can't really understand why, but then again who isn't flattered to have a stalker? If not 263. But aren't we all stalkers.

i.e. Lorne- @ work till 3/wanna go to the gym/can't wait till saturday

Forget the Craiglist killer, he worked to hard. This is the problem, guarded information is now spread so publicly. This wasn't even one of my friends! So be careful Lorne.



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