Is this internet stalking?

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Ok I have a habit of, when I like a girl, to look her up on Myspace/Facebook to try and figure out if she has a boyfriend or not. Like most profiles are private, so I'll check to see if they have another guy in the pic with them, or if their status says something that insinuates a boyfriend I just assume they are taken. Sometimes if it's a myspace profile and it's open, I'll look through the pictures a little. I mean is that like internet stalking or something? I'm just trying to figure out if they have someone so I don't waste my time/embarrass myself... well aside from the pictures thing.

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  • Smokey1D
    7 years ago

    Hell yeah. Facebook is made for stalking, isn't it? Assume whatever you put up, has gone global. To your friends, and not so friendlies .

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  • femmefatale12
    12 years ago

    546 pictures?! Dont mind if I do!

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  • Midnightshadow54
    13 years ago

    Nah, I think it's not stalking. If you were obsessively looking at all their profiles and all that crap, then yes. But you just don't want to make a fool out of yourself. I find that to be completely understandable.

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  • SpiritFlare
    13 years ago

    So long as you aren't going back to the same persons page over and over its not stalking.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    That's normal.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    No

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  • BOYracer88
    13 years ago

    just save their pictures to your hard-drive LOL

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  • alexisfreak
    14 years ago

    Dude, this sounds like stalking. Just ask the girl if she has a boyfriend. If these girls find out that you are doing this (which is very hard to do), you are screwed. Good Luck!

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  • Somone
    14 years ago

    i think u may be a littloe paranoid, u rule them out just cause they have a guy in the pic? what if that's a friend? or a brother? but i guess it's ok to want to know if she's in a relationship.. but u should judge better

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  • Somone
    14 years ago

    it's not that internet it's not stalking it's just that what u do is not stalking cause u can stalk bi internet most people do.. but now, if u started checkin her status profile etc very often and getting into places u shouldnt.. THAT's stalking

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  • [Old Memory]
    14 years ago

    Great question. I guess the fact that they knowingly made their personal information available to anyone on line means they can not expect privacy. In that sense you are doing research on information the person has chosen to make very public.

    That you feel uncomfortable, even creepy about it, suggests you have better boundaries around what is public and what is private. It also maybe means you should just talk to them directly if you are interested, instead of sneaking through internet profiles.

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  • kemosabi4
    14 years ago

    Yes and no. It's normal to look through a stranger's profile, if only to formulate an opinion of them. It's a little weird that you rule out women who have guys on their page. You should allow space for other men. Acting obsessive may only end up scaring others away.

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  • binkylover
    14 years ago

    everyone does this.

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