So, she went to her TA's website, and then clicked on links to his friends?
That's stalking? Damn. =p The funny part is, she might not have recognized you until you started the line from your website. =) It's a pretty good line!
Place things on the web because you don't mind anyone (I mean anyone) knowing it. Email and PM's IM's have some expectation of privacy... Not total (less than phone), but some. But, websites are the same as having an instruction manual for anyone to read.
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That flaming doggie in the window typed:
I've googled myself, but all I come up with is an Internet security hero who is alot more successfull then me so I stopped
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Vanity searching is fun! (Vanity searching: searching for your own name online)
My personal favourite is when I find a website listing books, including a book published by someone whose last name matches mine... on pedeophilia, eek!
Favourate might have been the wrong word.
However, realize that it isn't all that much work to get random information about someone. When you do stuff on the internet, you leak. In my case, you could probably find where I lived, my hobbies when I grew up, my philosophical positions and political positions when I was in university, where I grew up, my age, possibly my job, my personal activities, a half dozen or so pictures of me, the names of a few dozen of my friends... and probably more information that I don't know about. (that's a list of every fact about me that I know has been placed anywhere on the web)
It would require alot of work and luck to get all of that, but you could probably get a good chunk of it with very little effort. However, people on the internet are no more likely to be dangerous than people I walk past on the street. I'm so much more likely to be killed in a robbery (living in a city where 0.002% of the population is convicted of murder / year (2 in 100,000)) than I am to run into trouble because some psycho stalks me. =)
And, I'm even more likely to die in a car accident. So, I don't worry about it.