Since most of the people reading this blog have an 'internet life' (to some degree) of their own, I figured it might be good to read through this article (Cyberstalking: Are you at risk of being caught in the net - WXPNews, April 11). I know I've been guilty of some of it, I've got some photographic heroes who I've got an endless stream of questions for and would desperately like to learn from them more, but I know well enough that they wouldn't like getting their inbox filled or their blog covered in comments so I've purposefully limited my questions, comments, and requests for them. This article summarized very well the kind of person I fear becoming (and the kind of people I fear from past experiences).
An Excerpt:"Having someone obsessed with you - whether out of anger or unwanted affections - can be a real ordeal, and it's not just high-profile celebrities who find themselves dealing with a foe or "fan" who won't let go. Even if the person doesn't physically threaten you, the fact that someone is following you around, keeping tabs on what you do, and/or contacting you when you want to be left alone is annoying at best and can disrupt your life."
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Online Stalking - Interesting Article
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Yeah- it's kinda weird how easy it is to find out personal information about complete strangers. It took me an entire semester to figure out how to stop someone else' msn account from automatically logging in on my school account. I felt really bad- the guy's friends all thought he was blowing them off but it was just me, trying not to be intrusive by reading messages that belonged to someone else. Eventually I became really frustrated and answered. His friends didn't believe me that I was someone else who was always getting his messages for some unknown mystery of the universe mistake of quantum physics. Fortunately, it did all get sorted out eventually and Mike, some person I never did meet, fixed his setting so that it didn't automatically log in. But the experience showed me that I don't think I even want to know if there's a random glitch out there sending all my mail to some stranger in Ohio, who may or may not be freaky evil. Happy thoughts.
I would also like to say that I am a culprit. If you're on the internet, you're just asking to have nosy people like me come and be obtrusive and pretend that we have the right to intimate parts of your public life.
Or maybe, I suffer from the childish condition of only seeing the world through my own eyes. And heck, is there another reason to publish your personal thoughts than that you are a twinge lonely and want other people to know you? You can't really be choosy about who responds if that's the case now can you? Well I suppose you can. Jono did. I on the other hand am far more desperate and tried to publish my own phone number in my grad quote...
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