I don’t know if this was a common case, but remember the days, when you use to like someone or maybe were even infatuated with a particular person, and you wanted to get to know them more.  So what any normal human would do, is ask everyone or anyone that may have known this person in hopes of getting to know them better.  But then depending on how psychotic or how much of a nut case you were, it would lead to walking past their homes, classes, their workplace and much much more.  It all really depends on how what levels of stalking you wanted to pursue, but with the existence of the internet and technology on the rise, things have definitely changed.

If you got the cash and can afford the use of a super satellite to zone in on your desired prey then by all means go for it .  But if you’re just average Joe and have the use of the internet and a PC then things can definitely change.  You got the use of google.com and just enter the person’s name and hey presto, see how far you get with the results.  Then to top it off, the surge of facebook and myspace don’t help and can definitely be a like a all you can eat buffet in Ethiopia for your stalker if you’re not careful with your profile’s privacy settings.  I mean seriously with facebook in particular, if I need to check on how Mr\Ms ABC is doing, just type in the name and see if I have any friends related to that person.  Then from there see if I can check out my friends profile to get to Mr\Ms ABC.  It’s so simple, and it definitely saves you the time of asking and all from the privacy of your home or where ever you may be.

I have no doubts that soon people will change the way they do things, and laws may be needed to be brought in for privacy acts etc.  For now though there’s nothing more you can do but just protect your privacy the best you can and just limit the use of social networking websites etc.

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