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Internet Stalkers
Ever meet someone in real life, or online that knows more about you, than you do about them, because they read your website or 'researched' you on the internet?
I've had a lot of people IM me off of different websites, and sometimes that seems a little weird, just because I'm not expecting it. But something happened the other day that made me kind of confused.
First of all, I'm Skettios on this board, I also go by Skettios in real life, it's a nickname I got my freshman year of college, I also own Skettios.com and have an IM name that's similar. I don't ever hide this information, especailly not to people on TFP, it's all in the toolbar below my sig.
Anyway, I'm at a party at Michigan State the other day, talking to a girl that has my roommate for a T.A. She's a nice girl, and interested in politics, so I started talking, and she started agreeing with me. She brought up the fact, that I don't like Condi Rice very much, and I said, "Yeah, her 9/11 testimony made me want to throw the t.v. out the fucking window'. The weird part is that as soon as I said 'her 9/11 testimony' this girl starts to say the exact thing I said, at the same time as I do. Like we're thinking with the same brain. When I get a chance I leave the conversation, and start to think about what happened.
The throwing the t.v. out the window stuff was a direct quote off my website, in fact, it's still on there somewhere. Which meant that this girl, that I was just meeting that day, had read enough of my site that she could quote me directly.
I asked my roommate how she would have gotten to my website. He said that she looked him up as a T.A., must have found his school website, got his IM address somehow, and gotten to my website via his away message, he often quotes my page and vice versa.
Anyway, I think it's really cool that someone was smart enough to pull all of that together, although it is just a little creepy.
Does anyone else have a story like this, or have you been tracked down over the internet somehow? Please share them here.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Frederich Nietzsche
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