Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

tales from the creep keeper

Now, don't get me wrong; I love to e-creep as much (or more) as the next person. I could lose myself in the Facebook mega-matrix of interconnected profiles and networks and on and on and on. I have lost myself in the Facebook mega-matrix of interconnected profiles and on and on and on and on. I know people who have joined random networks for the sole purpose of creeping on people within those networks (I promise I haven't gone that far...yet). That's the appeal of the internet as far as I'm concerned: to snoop into other people's business, be it celebrities or people you saw at a party the night before.
BUT
HERE IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE:



when Facebook TELLS ME WHO TO CREEP. Okay, so, I "May Know" those people. I may have gone to high school with them or worked with them once 102493 years ago or I may have gone to high school with their third-last ex-girlfriend (real example) but that does not mean I am interested in their Facebook; If I was I'd have creeped it already.

I've been getting a lot more random friend-requests in the past week and I KNOW it's because of this crazy new feature. To those people I ask: doesn't requesting my friendship defeat the purpose of creeping?