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Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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Originally Posted by ellie
Why did you post personal info if you didn't want people to see it? No that is not creeping, it's just like reading the paper. Public info is open to public viewing.
Your issue is how you feel about what happened as a result. I think you should say thank you to the person who helped you and be prepared to answer questions that arise from your photos.
I agree. You put that info out there, facebook 'owns' it. If you have something to hide, set it to private or don't share it at all.
I don't personally care. Nothing to hide. Strangers probably know me better here for the thoughts and ideas I express than the status updates I post (not often) on fb. I agree with the sentiments that fb is starting to lose its appeal. I used to log in everyday to check my newsfeed and thought to myself "who cares?" about 95% of the stuff people shared with their 1000+ friends.
One verb that seems to be of recent coinage is "to creep", which usually refers, with a negative connotation, to looking at people's Facebook profiles, particularly of those to whom you have little or no acquaintance. While the concept would be unthinkable on the early web (since anything that was publicly posted was intended to be read, today with social network and all that jazz some people are suddenly "creeped out" by the prospect that their publicly-posted information, pictures, and videos might be looked at by somebody - horror of horrors - whom they do not know.
A girl whom I graduated high school with and have not to talked to much since apologized to me for "creeping" on my Facebook profile and learning of all my troubles (she has since, out of her own volition and without me asking, bought me a jacket and other goods and even held a fundraising drive for me). Another girl, whose family in Mexico I visited and whom I talk to every night, asked me about a couple of pictures on my aunt's Facebook page, which she found on her own.
I must say I am flattered by those two persons' interest in me.
Would you consider their actions "creeping"? Would you be flattered, or on the contrary, weirded out by them? Can "creeping" be caring?
If a girl does it and candidly tells you about it, it's caring.
If a guy does it, in any way, shape or form it's creeping, because guys only have 1 intention.
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