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973741 tn?1342342773

Internet creeping

We live in a connected world.  There is a lot of social media that we put ourselves out there on.  Do you consider it a breech of privacy if someone looks at your page on one of the sites?  Even this one?  If you didn't invite them to do so and they look because they are curious,interested,  concerned, bored, etc. --  does it bother you?  Do you do it? Thoughts?
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Don't put your stuff online where the public can see it if you don't want people to look at it without your permission.  What you're doing is like walking outside naked and blaming other people for looking at you.
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Agree with Kwyjib0
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@Chima............that's super crazy.  What a nutty ex.  You be careful.

I guess I don't care what others are doing and I don't have a FB account for good reasons, e.g. people snooping around trying to gather info about me.

I think people in general put way too much personal info and personal pics on social media.  It's ridiculous.  I think most of them like the attention from others.
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My ex boyfriend kept looking at my LinkedIn profile for years and years after we broke up. That's creepy.

I know he kept looking at it because there's an option on there to see who has viewed my profile and he kept showing up. He also kept appearing in the People You May Know section.
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1029273 tn?1472231494
I have no expectations of privacy when it comes to any site.
I often look at MH profiles to get an idea of the person I'm responding to, in regard to answering comments and private messages. Although I have found that a few of the profiles aren't always honest depictions of who I'm responding to, but I suppose that comes with the territory. Otherwise, I'm not particularly interested in checking out someone's activities.
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13167 tn?1327194124
Funny you should say that about the neighbor - I DO have a new neighbor family moving in,  and yes I've noodled through their facebooks.  The old neighbors had us over and went to their pages, pointing out interesting things,  and when I got home I went back through and lurked around.  

And when I'm on facebook looking through my friend's stuff,  I'll often puddle jump from one person to the next I see in pictures and check out what they had for lunch that day that they felt the need to share.  ;D  And I'll mention it,  too,  "wow,  your friend makes the prettiest cookies".    That kind of thing.

I'm too afraid to lurk around pages where I ought not be - where I'd be embarrassed or have to explain my curiosity - because I have a niggling fear that somehow,  I'll do something that will leave my footprint and they'll know I was lurking around.
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973741 tn?1342342773
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I guess I was more talking about something like . . .  you have a new neighbor move in.  You checked the website that can reveal their work history and the social media site that they may post pics or things about their personal life, etc.  Or here, just going through someone's pictures that you aren't really friends with since they have them set to public.  :>)  Not speaking of when you are trying to answer a question and see history of posts or our friends we've made here.  
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13167 tn?1327194124
Sorry,  bad editing on that last post - I edited out a paragraph where I said I don't noodle around on the internet to find people on this forum on facebook,  linkedin,  etc.
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13167 tn?1327194124
Do you mean if they click on your MedHelp profile and read your previous posts?  I do that very often,  before I answer a difficult question - just to get some background.  And I'll start out my post with,  "I glanced at your previous posts and" because sometimes my answer would be completely different not knowing the history.

I am,  though,  VERY surprised in general about how easy it is to find people on social media,  and how often their profiles are such that no one seeing that information would ever hire them.  
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