After reading a Facebook status that an ex of a friend of mine, from more than a decade ago, tried to reconnect with her, I became curious about my own ex.
What does he look like now, is he married to the same person, is his profile pic one of a recent sonogram, etc., etc.? So naturally, I looked him up.
Result? OMG. What happened to his face? The last time I saw him was probably 5 years ago and I think I pretty much look the same. So what’s been going on in his life to make him look soo bloated…and haggard? As I teased him years ago, did he actually become a meth/cokehead as a result of working long hours, the past few years on Wall Street? Not sure if this has any effect, but he’s still with the same girl. 😉
So, personally I am not above Facebook Creepin’. And it actually freaks me out when I read about applications that can track who has visited your profile. Do they actually work?
Even though I know that Creepin’ is probably not healthy, I can’t break-up with Facebook because I have received so many deals, coupons, and not to mention that it’s actually been good as a networking tool!
The question is, do you Facebook Creep, and if so on whom?
Do the programs really work that say “who has been viewing your profile”? I have always thought they were a virus.
I am guilty. I always go look up people from my past to see who is where now…
Some I am jealous of after and others make me feel great, lol. But honestly it sometimes feels like a secret high school reunion of sorts.
I am guilty of this! I am always interested to see what people from my high school days look like and former co-workers. Its interesting to see some people’s career paths and their family life (kids or no kids etc.)
I personally think everyone does it!
I def creep 🙂
I am probably one of the only say 5 people in the world that don’t use facebook! Though everyone bugs me to get on it.
What are the good apps that you use to track who visited your page? I’m interested in knowing if I have any creeper friends which I probably do. 😛
The apps don’t work. They select random people (based on predetermined placements in a list of numbers) and call those creepers. How do I know this? 99 percent of the time, I’m first on someone’s list. I constantly get tagged as a ‘creeper’, though I haven’t visited that person’s profile in months – or sometimes since I’ve added them.
@. – If what you’re saying is true then onwards with the guilt-free creepin’! 😉
To be completely honest, I haven’t confirmed it by speaking with an app developer or anything – but I get 2-3 of these notifications per day sometimes, and I really only ever visit four or five profiles! Hah.
I don’t think any of those apps actually work…I think they are just based on who posts on your wall etc… but it is possible I guess, I hope it isn’t though! hahaha I creep on exes and crushes, and people I dislike or admire, and just like Dayanara, I get jealous and also feel better about myself 😛
I think we all shouldn’t feel guilty about it, people know what facebook is for, and if they didn’t want anyone to see their pics, then they shouldn’t have left their profile open 🙂 That being said, make sure your privacy settings are set the way you want, I thought mine were, but checked back and EVERYONE could see my pics, so heads up there.
@Stephania I like that banner pic facebook = please stalk me. Can I add that to my facebook album pic? LOL
Mike…fyi when the title says “Facebook = please stalk me” …do you really think there will be a coupon involved??
touche Mike
Yes there are apps that work, sorry I don’t know them, I just know someone that has “caught” myself and my friends when looking at their profile. Wasn’t doing anything wrong, just checking if they’ve updated a picture.
EVERYONE creeps.
you don’t want people looking at your pics? MAKE THEM PRIVATE
i am guilty of being a creep. i like to stalk my enemies and exes muahahahahaha
I am getting really sick of reading these posts. Last week it was Stephania’s love for Jersey Shore, now this week she’s using the SmartCanucks blog to publicly ridicule her ex, calling him names such as ‘haggard’ and alleging that he is a drug addict.
Seriously, please remove her. I’m so sick of reading her posts. It’s graduated from off-topic garbage to using it as a place for her to write nasty things about her ex boyfriend.
She could have written this and omitted the fact that her ex boyfriend is a cokehead or that he looks haggard and bloated and simply wrote a post about facebook creeping, but that would eliminate the point for her. She wanted a space that she could write how disgusting and lowly her ex was. She basically wrote the rest of the blog as padding around her writing nasty things about him.
I do not want to see any more blogs from Stephania posted. They’ve gone from simply being way off topic and more personal blog material to garbage padded with more garbage.
Get a personal blog, Stephania, I’m sick of reading the crap you use the SC homepage to spew.
I don’t really ever facebook creep partly because I don’t have enough time and it bores me. The only type of creeping I do is with my friends. We play this game where the first person goes around snooping on their page and comments/likes majority of their photos and status updates. And then the other person will do that to the other person. Personally I think it’s funny but other people thing I’m weird. Haha
I creep. I enjoy Stephania’s blog TOPICS and have no qualms with them being posted on this site. I HOWEVER agree with some other posters that some of the opinions, rants and commentary in her blogs are unfortunate.
Yes, I’ve done some research on my main ‘ex’, last time I saw her was 10 years ago. Various sites, etc. Not facebook, she has no account there. Anyway I know a lot about what happened since she dumped me ! 🙂 She got married to a guy not soon after dumping me and it only lasted about 2-3 years then they divorced and then married another guy, much older, about 20 years older than she is, there was an article i read in an online newspaper about what he was doing … moved from the northeastern USA to the southern part of the usa too. She’s got 2 kids now about 3 and 5 years old and from the photos it looks like she gained about 75 pounds compared to the last time I saw her. Probably not too happily married either because I found nasty comments she made about her husband online too. Criticizing him for this and that and being nasty, ignoring her, etc. Anyway I was happy to find out all this information, it didn’t take hours, no worries, only 30 minutes of research required. The main problem was she changed last name twice due to being married or else it would have taken even less time to find out the latest info. 😉
I’m a Facebook creeper as well!
As for the off-topic posts, even though I haven’t agreed with what Stephania says in some of her posts, she is not the first nor the only poster who contributes off-topic content. SC has had off-topic stuff for a while, so it isn’t really fair to call her out on that basis.
Besides, how many people have complained about her posts before and as you can see, she’s still contributing 🙂
T, Mike and Svot – you guys seriously need help and need to lighten up. IF you don’t want to read it, . There are many who like Stefania’s posts, and to those who don’t and don’t read them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am also sick of Stephania’s posts. I don’t mind off-topic posts, but the ones by her I can do without. I agree 100% with T on this one.
I creep. I select my profile pictures based on the assumption that others, in turn, creep.
I also have a very thin skin and I hope Stephania’s skin is thicker than mine–ouch!!
Umm…it’s not creeping around if you’re checking out someone else’s profile. They put it up there and therefore made themselves public and available for looking. It’s easy enough to set your privacy level high, so if their stuff is available to be seen, it’s their choice. They are inviting people to look. That’s just the way FB is.
If you don’t want to read it, don’t!
I don’t always agree with her posts,
BUT I do love when people express their opinions.
The title clearly stated what her post was about,
and If your not interested, don’t read it.
there I’m done, let the bashing begin!
This site is getting really depressing!
Please keep posting Stephania!!!
Yup, I facebook creep, and not even with people whom I know! Aghhh I can’t help but think “What is the creeper app really does work???”
I removed some nasty comments. They really weren’t needed.
I creep a bit. But not much, as for my own profile I may have “300” friends but a lot of them are on limited profile and cannot see much.
LMAO@ What happened to his face. Are you sure we dont have the same ex’es?
Sally…u missed pumpers post…unless telling people to “f off”
is appropriate
Nope, I’m only on facebook for the freebies. Facebook kind of creeps me out, I don’t see it so much as a means for keeping in touch as an invasion of privacy and to me a waste of time….unless there are freebies involved lol.
I creep haha… I look at people’s profile to see if they’re working now, if the’yre still in school etc. Not that everyone posts that sort of information though. I sometimes check my ex’s profile… Nothing major really.
@T
Lighten up buddy! She obviously wasn’t seriously calling him a cokehead. Get some sense of humour (or get off the INTERWEBSZZS???).
This is the only reason I joined Facebook! Sheesh!
Guilty as charged. I’m a creeper. Checked out an ex-boyfriend once out of curiosity. LOL. Seeing the picture didn’t make me want to go back in time and change my mind though, so that’s good. We can all think about who we have creeped on fb before– doesn’t it make you wonder if anyone ever creeped YOU on fb??
All the people who are opposed to this type of blog are simply saying there’s place for it. Theres no need to be rude about it on either side. If you enjoy Stephanias blogging thats great and that’s why she writes it because people enjoy it. Those of us who come here for deals though are starting to get a little frustrated with these types of blogs. I agree we can just scroll by it ( although I admit I read this one as I was curious although I do not take part in facebook) Having read it and understanding how alot of people can relate I still think maybe there should be a more appropriate section for it on this site?
this is turning into a personal blog.i actually wrote my local newspaper once because the editor felt like the whole town wanted to read about how her love life wasn’t working…
insulting your old boyfriend is bad form…
i don’t creep,i have a private profile so people can’t creep me..i leave the past where it belongs,i wish my old boyfriends well and then never talk to them or think of them again…facebook is pretty much and was created to be a creepy ex boyfriend/girlfriend…
i use it for the games and for the freebies…maybe occasionally chatting with friends..
i don’t get why every single blog and it is a blog by this person has to include some sort of derogatory remark or rudeness…
so anyone that doesn’t agree with the posts gets theirs erased…never said anything rude or used profanity…
I have 2 facebook accounts just for freebies and coupons. No personal data.always remember when you give your life details it’s up for keeps and please don’t lecture me on the use of the english language professor know it all lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@tudorchick: that’s right. i’ve had racist comments said to me on SC and they’ve never been removed.
T, are you sure your not the ex in question?? you sound bitter!!
BTW, you don’t have to read everything on here just skim for what interests you.
All I can say is WOW! How can a post that generated some discussion turn into something so ugly??
as per the creeping, def I creep. I love to know info and I know people creep on me:)
why is my comment the only one awaiting moderation ?????? caus I’m a 69 year old dude ?
@ T Your post is off topic…. Get over it! I like my freebies but hey why not be able to talk to people about other things than free stuff! If you don’t want to read it take a look at the title and move on it was evident by the title it had nothing to do with a freebie. On a fun note as her post was meant to be…. Guilty as charged I creep and I enjoy it 🙂
haha GUILTY! but reconnected with some great girl friends, with whom i drifted apart from.
No, those applications do not work.
& I only creep bullies of mine that I had in elementary school & high school.. sometimes. I do once, & then that’s pretty much it. I like when I find that they’ve put on weight or.. u know.. are still ugly. #justsayin.
Im getting annoyed. Every chance you get you tear apart Stephania. Its not very becoming.
Its an off topic. If you do not want to read an off topic, which is marked as “other” which have been posted since 2006 then kindly skip past.
I try to remove or edit posts with profanity. I do not remove posts for no reason. I really do not care if they do or don’t agree with her. I’m tired of the personal attacks on her.
From what I understand, those apps will only work if both the creeper and the “creeped” are using them. I have previously been tagged as part of a top ten list of creepers on a friend’s profile, but the last time I had posted anything on his page (or even visited it) was months beforehand.
well, isn’t that what Facebook is for????
there is actually an app for android phones that supposedly tells you who goes to your profile in real time and sends a notification…i saw it once in the market.not sure what it is called..
WHOA!! High School up in here today!! Relax people lol. There are bigger things in life to worry about!! 😉
hmm not sure I like these kinds of posts. oh well, I appreciate the this blog nonetheless for its great deals!
I admit, I’m a facebook creep aswell. However, the only people I really “creep” are highschool friends that I’ve lost contact with, and on occasion my oldest daughter’s father. I always laugh when I see he has found some new (much younger) girl to lie to and manipulate… somehow they always add me and ask me a bunch of questions, regardless… i love facebook. The freebies, the games, and I found my Grandma on facebook! Way cheaper to talk to her and my uncle than spending $$ on long distance!!
I do think some of the opinions of a couple of posts were unbecoming. I was pretty offended by that kid in the grocery article…though I don’t know or care who posted it. All people have a right to their opinion and as long as information isn’t personally identifiable I don’t mind what people post.
I think its rude for anyone to speak rudely about a blogger on smart canucks…agree or disagree…question the need to post on a topic but don’t bash a blogger…after all their just humans earning a living.
I do creep a little on Facebook….and find a lot of old friends….Facebook is amazing for a former foster kid who moved a lot…i get to meet a lot of people I never thought I would.
no “the” lol
By reading someone’s status or viewing their pictures, you are “creeping” according to most. But if no one is reading your stuff or viewing your pics, then why share in the first place! Facebook was created for “creeping” on your friends!
Although I didn’t see any in this topic, I have seen numerous times in the past where people hate on facebook saying stuff like “I don’t want everyone to know all my private information”. I always try to educate/explain that YOU control what facebook knows about you.. but I swear it’s like talking to a brick wall with some people.
I love facebook.. It’s the easiest way to keep in touch with people, and to update all your friends in seconds of news/info. Long live facebook. I heard Google is coming out with something to compete.. but why fix something that isn’t broken. Stay away Google!
Who cares, that is why it is called a social site. Creep all you want. On the adverse, I find it more intriguing to hear why some people need to know who is looking at their page, lol. Is it a, need to get over yourself or a need for gratification? Either or FB is a great site and like all things some people will abuse it.
Oh, and I “creep” on old elementary school friends, people I’ve lost touch with, etc. When I get nostalgic and wonder: “What ever happened to…?”
this is exactly the reason why I don’t have facebook. I don’t need to reconnect to people in high school that I haven’t talked to in 20 years, or ex’s. There is a reason that I don’t talk to these people anymore…and no, they don’t need to know what I am doing or who I am with.
I just recently came back to facebook. I used to have a FB page back when it first started to become big, but got rid of it because back then they didnt have as many security options as they do now. I was getting tired of missing out on family and deals without FB that I decided to try it again. My sister taught me how to keep it super secure. As for Creeping people?? Well I cant say that I haven’t, I just dont want to be creeped. As an earlier post stated if there are people out there who I have know at one point in my life and they are not in it right now… then why bother. It makes me laugh these people with 1000+ “Friends” HA!
I normally don’t leave comments on SC, but I can’t believe how rude some comments regarding this blog have been. Stephania, I love your blogs and especially this one. It’s entertaining and real.
I am absolutely a creeper. I only go on FB now to see pictures ex’s and past friends have posted…and for the freebies of course. I have made alot of my personal info on FB private because I know everyone else is a creeper like me.
Never used Facebook. No one from the past I care to hear from or see. The past is the past for a reason.
This blog post almost jumped out at me lol this is a really great topic, in my opinion.
I do look at other ppls profiles and pics, but i don’t think it’s “creeping” when you are posting pics and making them public, i think it’s fine. I have searched up a couple of my ex’s. I actually have them as “friends” on facebook. (I talk to one every month we even send each other christmas cards)
So i guess I do “creep” but i wouldn’t call it that.
I hope ppl look at my pics, b/c i post them so everyone can see, if i don’t want ppl to see them, i just wont add any.
admins, please think….is this the type of thing you want posted on SMARTCANUCKS? a website about finding good deals, but, more importantly, a website called SMARTCANUCKS. this isn’t very smart. it’s rude and inappropritate.
LOL, never heard it called creeping, just plain old stalking!
People know what or how much they are posting on FB is public, so it’s all fair game!
I do occasionally enjoy these off topic posts with interesting question prompts and how they stirred up various discussions. However, what was the poster’s intent of writing those comments about her ex? If the purpose of the post is to simply have SC users discuss “do you Facebook creep”, certainly those harsh comments were not necessary.
Comments like “OMG. What happened to his face?” and “did he actually become a meth/cokehead” say more about the person who made them than the person who these comments were targeting.
It is true a SC user can skipped these off-topic or specific blogger’s posts as he or she likes; but for new and relatively new users who aren’t familiar with how the SC homepage is “setup”, unfortunately these posts may leave many a negative impression.
@Colin Finally! So it’s not just me here who thinks by looking at someone’s profile you are not “creeping”! I bristle at being called a “creeper”. How is it creepy to look at someone’s pic or info that they specifically posted for all to see? It’s like this: if you’re walking by someone’s house and they have painted the outside walls with all their interests and photos and info. Are you supposed to just keep walking by and not look? Don’t feel guilty people, the simple fact is that those profiles are on display. So keep looking and don’t call yourself a “creeper”. More like a “curious bystander”. 🙂
whoa! buncha stiffs on SC yesterday lol.
to whomever found this post to be offensive mustn’t leave the house, turn on the tv or open a magazine much now-a-days eh.
get that stick out of your nether regions and leave the poster alone.
oh and don’t come to someones house (or website) and tell them how they should run it – that’s rude!
LMAO
why are people AGAIN getting their granny panties in a bunch? instead of telling Stephanie to stop posting, maybe YOU should, pls and thanks.
Sally – thanks for cleaning up the discussion a bit. It’s getting really tiring to see the same grumpy bitties complaining and wailing about every word Stephania posts. Honestly, instead of wasting time writing up every reason why you do not enjoy this and that, go read a book or go for a walk.
Apparently a polite, nicely worded, profanity-free request is “nasty” enough to be deleted just because Sally doesn’t like it. I subscribe to this site through an RSS feed because I like the deals. I posted a comment because I’m tired of having to scroll through pages of rants and insults by this blogger when I just want to see some sales. All I said was that it would be nice if there was another section on the blog for these types of posts so that people who like them can read them there, and the people who don’t can avoid them. Clearly some people like discussing this type of stuff, so what’s the harm in getting it’s own section? I just don’t want to be constantly hearing about everything stephania hates when all I want is to see what’s on sale.
Hopefully this comment won’t get deleted because it’s just as “nasty” as the last one.
Stephania, I know its hard, but please try to not take these comments personally…
Its just coming from people who don’t have anything better to do in life then spend 30 minutes trying to come up with 1/8 of a page of snooty insults to someone they don’t even slightly know!
I like these “other” posts because they give us something interesting to read! I like SC, but I can only read so much about sales on deodorant and bodywash. I can’t believe the tone of some people’s negative responses on here!
Mike.
Skip past them then. 🙂
yes very true, if you see who it is published by just skip it because it’ll be more of the same contemptible material.
Ok I Creeped! I admit it! The only issue is now that I creeped on facebook to see if the “stalker” I had was still around.
It is best to keep tabs on any stalkers IMO, so now hubby freaked out on me that I looked up the business FB page where I thought the stalker worked.
Hubby then calls the stalker at work and home (I think) and now a possible divorce…..so the real question How many people have gotten Divorced due to searching a business on FB?….lol
ps… it was close to happening anyhow, I dont “blame” FB. I Blame his nasty personality!
I have to agree with Mr. T on this one (Or mrs. T) tehe. Sorry for the bad joke. Off topic posts are okay sometimes. When I’m bored I’ll read anything. As long as someone’s not spamming the page every minute. But I agree that there might be a more appropriate venue to verbally bash someone.
I guess there is a fine line between being curious and a total stalkhead. If you are gawking at his/her profile more than fifteen minutes a day you got problems! :p But I agree with the person that said that people put their pictures up for all to see (unless they put restrictions). I’ve recently met someone who apparently had the time to look through every one of my photos, and wondered if I remembered such and such photo of his own: “Do you remember that picture of me at the beach?, Wasn’t that pic of me on the dance floor a riot?, How about the pic of me stuffing my face at the restaurant?” Sorry I don’t recall those specific ones probably because you have about a hundred photos and I got tired after looking through twenty of them. :p
The apps that claim they can see who checked your profile are called phishing apps. To use them you agree to let the app access your facebook info including your friends, your wall posts and your pictures. Once they have access they can do what they want with the info. If your friends have FB settings that allow friends of friends to post on their walls then they can post on your friends walls, getting them to click and accessing their info too.
Hopefully no one stores financial info or even their address in their FB info, but lots have their cell phone number which can now be marketed to also.
Dont install the apps. Dont click on them. Dont even comment on one if you see it on a friends post.
Anyway as for stalking, I’m sure most of us have looked someone up. Isnt that the entire reason for HS reunions – to see how everyone looks and how they are doing without appearing like you care?
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