Blogging or modern day stalking?
| October 19th, 2005Ok…so this is a bit of an oxymoron here but is blogging the modern day way to stalk people on the internet? I, like many others, have been sucked into this habbit with Xanga, Myspace, and this site and originally it’s intent was to just broadcast things about myself to my friends and others. Well…ever wonder what happens when you burn a bridge with someone? you know, ex-gf, fight with a friend…etc? Well i’ve also been a victim to this (of course it was in part my fault as well) and now that i sit back in hindsight i realize how scary this really is. Take for instance me and my ex-gf…whom i haven’t talked to in almost a year. I have a tracking module on one my blogs (not this one!) and little does she know that i’m aware that she keeps up on me. i don’t really mind, but it still irks me enough to *occasionally* check her site too…and that is something that is very unhealthy for me…as i’m sure it might be for her too. I dunno…it’s just weird…being able to practically read someone’s inner thoughts (which is made publicly availible by choise) and somewhat keep up on people who wouldn’t normally appreciate it. It’s a painful habbit to break too…but oh well…i suppose that’s my own problem. But just imagine if that bridge was burned due to a rape or something. That would be terrible to think you couldn’t even block that person since it just blocks thier user name…not thier IP (which dynamically changes anyway), local host name, or even thier subnet. And for those on the other sides of the equation, although you’re obviously in need of help or something anyway, maybe it’s time you wake up and realize there’s measures that the person you’re keeping up on can take to track you down and if irked enough, can even find your relative physical location. I dunno…i’m addicted to blogging, but as a lot of addicted smokers might add, i’m not particularly proud of it and i think it may very well escalate into a much larger issue
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