Not sure if this really deserves to be in topic because it is kind of serious but meh... probably not serious enough.
Anyhow, let me start this by saying that I don't stalk people. I've never met anyone online that didn't ask to meet me. And I've never looked up anything that wasn't readily available in someone's profile or signature. With that being said, I've also never been stalked.
However, I do know people that have been stalked. I think in the past "stalking" used to be a pretty reserved word for people who constantly obsess over another person and follow their every movement. And to find out information about a person would either require the majority of your time and effort (digging through trash cans, stake-outs, that kind of thing) or some serious connections (Private investigator, mob... etc). But now I'm not really sure that's the case. With tools like Googe Earth, MySpace, Friendster, Xanga page, yadda yadda... all you really need is a few pieces of information and you can track someone pretty successfully.
Phil, a common friend of Busta's and mine, is someone we tried to "stalk" once. lol We've been friends with him for a long long time but he lives in Detroit. We were going to go out and visit him once but he got engaged and it kind of ruined the whole deal. Anyhow, he never ended up giving us the address to where he lived... but he did tell us where he worked and we'd seen multiple pictures of him and his fiance. And although we just kind of played around and never really got anywhere, if we really tried, we probably could have. He has pictures of him on his porch that has his address number on it. He took a picture of his brother and it shows that he lives on the corner of a street. I know he can literally walk to his work at a grocery story that is less than a mile away from his home. There are only 5 of these stores in Detroit. I mean if I put my mind to it, I could easily go visit this person without them ever asking for me to come. Now I WON'T... because that's just super creepy... but I probably could if I wanted to.
So has anyone done any amatuer stalking? Been stalked? or is actually a super creepy stalker?
Anyhow, let me start this by saying that I don't stalk people. I've never met anyone online that didn't ask to meet me. And I've never looked up anything that wasn't readily available in someone's profile or signature. With that being said, I've also never been stalked.
However, I do know people that have been stalked. I think in the past "stalking" used to be a pretty reserved word for people who constantly obsess over another person and follow their every movement. And to find out information about a person would either require the majority of your time and effort (digging through trash cans, stake-outs, that kind of thing) or some serious connections (Private investigator, mob... etc). But now I'm not really sure that's the case. With tools like Googe Earth, MySpace, Friendster, Xanga page, yadda yadda... all you really need is a few pieces of information and you can track someone pretty successfully.
Phil, a common friend of Busta's and mine, is someone we tried to "stalk" once. lol We've been friends with him for a long long time but he lives in Detroit. We were going to go out and visit him once but he got engaged and it kind of ruined the whole deal. Anyhow, he never ended up giving us the address to where he lived... but he did tell us where he worked and we'd seen multiple pictures of him and his fiance. And although we just kind of played around and never really got anywhere, if we really tried, we probably could have. He has pictures of him on his porch that has his address number on it. He took a picture of his brother and it shows that he lives on the corner of a street. I know he can literally walk to his work at a grocery story that is less than a mile away from his home. There are only 5 of these stores in Detroit. I mean if I put my mind to it, I could easily go visit this person without them ever asking for me to come. Now I WON'T... because that's just super creepy... but I probably could if I wanted to.
So has anyone done any amatuer stalking? Been stalked? or is actually a super creepy stalker?

