Do you often find yourself going on to facebook initially just to see if you have any updates and eventually wind up scrupulously going through every album, wall post, and info of multiple "friends" of yours? If you answered yes, you are probably a "facebook stalker". And if you answered no, then chances are you are lying to yourself.
Now it is very important, if you are not already familiar with this term, to confuse it with actual stalking. But it is very easy to find comparisons with the two. It's not so much that a "fb stalker" is obsessed or deeply engaged with one particular person. Rather, they dig through their friends entire facebook lives sometimes for hours on end for no particular reason. I'll admit, I have caught myself "fb stalking" on numerous occasions because I find that crap astoundingly interesting and it's a solid way to throw time down the drain.
I try my best to stop "fb stalking" whenever I catch myself doing it, because even though my intentions are not that of a real life stalker, it's still pretty creepy.It's gotten so big that CNN decided to chime in on the issue:
Sadly, I am indeed a facebook stalker. I mean I don't go on fb everyday intending to stalk all my friends but I'll see someone's picture or wall post and think how I haven't been on their page in a while. And then I just look at pretty much every single thing on their page. It's pretty sad that I fb stalk people who are supposed to be my good friends and that I need facebook to feel feel closer to them.
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