E-stalking. You’re not the only one who does it.
November 28, 2007
We all e-stalk. We google people’s names, we read resumes on LinkedIn, go through pictures on facebook, browse our friend’s blog… And you keep it all in secret (except for a certain photographer who showed my friend, Marianne, that he had a folder named “Marianne” saved on the desktop of his laptop with links to various websites that mention her.) Most of us have the good sense to NOT divulge our stalking.
But, to the Stanford Student or Alumni who has started stalking me, I’m onto you. Three hits in the last 24 hours? I’m impressed you think we update IRF that frequently. We don’t.Here’s how I know that you are stalking me. Someone clearly sent you a link to the blog via a facebook email message since a referral is coming from: “stanford.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage…”
Now, you may be thinking that it is narcissistic of me to assume that the Stanford Facebooker is e-stalking ME. Perhaps it is presumptuous, but since only ONE contributor at IRF is within walking distance of campus, I’m making the leap that it is me.
Anyhow, Stanford Facebooker, continue to e-stalk at will, I can’t tell who you are…
But when I finally meet a friend or two, and I hear you went to Stanford, and I learn you’re on Facebook, the jig is up.
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TRussell | November 28, 2007 at 2:07 am
Its London. She loves you! She can already keyboard and mouse.
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JL | November 28, 2007 at 12:57 pm
This is good you’ve put the world on notice that there may be an e-stalker lurking around you in the Bay Area.
We can assume that his book smarts transfer to prospecting as well…
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Jdon | November 28, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I am shocked that there are people that freaky in the Bay Area! Who knew?
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lemare | November 28, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I know, I mean you EXPECT tranny nuns taking communion, but something like THIS… in the land of milk and honey and pelosi… shocking.
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lemare | November 28, 2007 at 4:15 pm
For the record, the Stanford Facebooker has been back since I wrote this last night.
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Sportsattitude | November 29, 2007 at 11:37 am
OK…I just decided…I’m not moving to the West Coast.
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Jdon | November 29, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I still can’t get over the fact that there are weird people in San Francisco! I am totally tripping here, man!
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Lindsay | November 30, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I go on IRF 3 times a day sometimes. I didn’t know I was stalking. My bad.
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pammyshep | November 30, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I’ve got a 315 lb self-professed Star Wars freak who lives with his mother and posts naked pix of himself on his own blog. THAT’S the winner who’s been visiting my blog lately, so I think maybe you’ve got the more normal one.
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ian in hamburg | December 5, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Hi,
Why do you assume someone is “stalking” you for the grand total of three incoming hits from one place? Maybe it’s one visit, three page views?
I dunno. If you have ever read the real horror stories about what actual stalking victims have had to endure, you’d see this is nothing to get worked up about.
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lowdogg | December 5, 2007 at 11:00 pm
I think this was tongue-in-cheek.
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ian in hamburg | December 6, 2007 at 9:56 am
Hope so.
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lemare | December 6, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Ian, EVERYTHING i say is tongue-in-cheek. Sorry my sarcasm got lost in translation.
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sansoucy | January 20, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Try over 130 hits to your website in two weeks from the same IP address. . .lol NOT cool, just CREEPY