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Topic	What happened to your high school crush?
ParanoidObsessive 06/29/20 1:04:48 PM #74:	ChaosAzeroth posted... You act like people have to try to know stuff. No, I'm acting like -I- would have to try to know stuff. At no point have I really generalized anything I've said to anyone else other than me, or shat on other people for bothering to keep track of people they used to know, by whatever means, for whatever reason. I'm just pointing out why -I- haven't. About the most I did was kind of poo-poo the mentality that everyone needs to have a Facebook page and that everyone with a Facebook page has to be Facebook friends with everyone they ever went to school with, because there are absolutely people who think that way. But not everyone thinks that way, so there will always be people who actually have to actively investigate what happened to people they went to school with. This is arguably a problem with Internet discourse in general, though - people read more into what someone is saying than what they're ACTUALLY saying, personalize it, then treat it as something of an attack and react aggressively to something that was never actually directed at them in the first place. Then the first person reacts to what they perceive as an attack, and then everyone winds up on the defensive and just kind of insulting each other. Which is why most Internet discussions and debates usually devolve into little more than shit-flinging pretty quickly. ChaosAzeroth posted... I find the idea of stalking people weird, but let's be real the definition seems to not even be the same person to person anymore. That's because context matters. People may oversimplify or conflate terminology and confuse the discussion in the process, but "cyberstalking" (at least when it's not being used in a legalistic sense) has always generally meant little more than going out of your way to use the Internet tools at your disposal to track down people you would otherwise not be aware of. At its most basic level, that includes stuff like tracking down Facebook profiles to see where someone is and what their personal details are (married, kids, etc), but it also goes into things like name searches that give you addresses, phone numbers, e-mail accounts, etc. Even if you never USE that information to contact or harass them (which is where the legal definition of the term comes into play), you're still effectively stalking them (even if they never find out, and you never doing anything with it other than sate your own curiosity). Bumping into someone, or hearing gossip about them because you live in the same small town, or seeing what they're up to because you share Facebook friends, or other passive means of learning what they're up to really isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking more about the impulse where you find yourself curious about someone you haven't really thought about for years, and then actively choose to go looking for information. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:941430056] in What happe... [t:78809150]...</cite> <quote><cite>ChaosAzeroth posted...</cite> <quote>You act like people have to try to know stuff.</quote> No, I'm acting like -I- would have to try to know stuff. At no point have I really generalized anything I've said to anyone else other than me, or shat on other people for bothering to keep track of people they used to know, by whatever means, for whatever reason. I'm just pointing out why -I- haven't. About the most I did was kind of poo-poo the mentality that everyone needs to have a Facebook page and that everyone with a Facebook page has to be Facebook friends with everyone they ever went to school with, because there are absolutely people who think that way. But not everyone thinks that way, so there will always be people who actually have to actively investigate what happened to people they went to school with. This is arguably a problem with Internet discourse in general, though - people read more into what someone is saying than what they're ACTUALLY saying, personalize it, then treat it as something of an attack and react aggressively to something that was never actually directed at them in the first place. Then the first person reacts to what they perceive as an attack, and then everyone winds up on the defensive and just kind of insulting each other. Which is why most Internet discussions and debates usually devolve into little more than shit-flinging pretty quickly. <cite>ChaosAzeroth posted...</cite> <quote>I find the idea of stalking people weird, but let's be real the definition seems to not even be the same person to person anymore.</quote> That's because context matters. People may oversimplify or conflate terminology and confuse the discussion in the process, but "cyberstalking" (at least when it's not being used in a legalistic sense) has always generally meant little more than going out of your way to use the Internet tools at your disposal to track down people you would otherwise not be aware of. At its most basic level, that includes stuff like tracking down Facebook profiles to see where someone is and what their personal details are (married, kids, etc), but it also goes into things like name searches that give you addresses, phone numbers, e-mail accounts, etc. Even if you never USE that information to contact or harass them (which is where the legal definition of the term comes into play), you're still effectively stalking them (even if they never find out, and you never doing anything with it other than sate your own curiosity). Bumping into someone, or hearing gossip about them because you live in the same small town, or seeing what they're up to because you share Facebook friends, or other passive means of learning what they're up to really isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking more about the impulse where you find yourself curious about someone you haven't really thought about for years, and then actively choose to go looking for information. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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