thursday thought: creeping.

creeping. you all know what i'm talking about. the girl who you kindly said hi to and who then somehow got your number and started texting you twenty-three times a day. the boy who would slip notes into your locker and stare at you in class, but never had talked to you before. the stalker who would always be walking behind you on your way home from school but you were pretty sure he lived nowhere near you. whether you've been the one creeped out or the one doing the creeping, we've all witnessed or been apart of these kinds of situations. now i know i don't have a ton of room to tell everyone what is and isn't socially acceptable. but these things are not socially acceptable. as in, if you do them, people will think you're weird. sorry to say.

it just tends to scare people.

but what i really want to talk about is a different kind of creeping.

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urban diction defines facebook creeping as: 

An act in which one looks at a friend's and/or stranger's facebook profile, pictures, and recent activity usually of the opposite sex. Also the act of getting random information from a person's Facebook profile by snooping around. Everyone denies their involvement in this act (when in reality most people do it when bored), then in turn accuse someone else of doing it later.

let's be honest here. if you have a facebook, you facebook creep. it's just how facebook works. i have people on facebook who i don't even know old friends from high school that i don't keep in touch with anymore whose pictures i always go through often. 

no really though, i always end up looking at people's pictures who i don't know. i don't even realize i'm doing it half the time, i'm usually stalking someone i know (it's less weird if you know them than if you don't), and then it links to someone else, and then it links to someone else, and all of a sudden you're looking through a complete stranger's album. and their profile. and i'm learning who they hang out with, who they've dated, where they work, and what they're interested in.

you guys can all point fingers and call me a "CREEP!" but that's okay, because you and i both know that you do it too. and the only reason that facebook creeping is okay vs. in-life creeping is because it's harder to get caught doing it.

if a relative is dating someone, you creep them. if you're getting set up on a date with someone, you creep them. if you see a cutie on campus and overhear their name, you search them and you creep them. if you see a good looking boy or girl in a picture with someone you know, you click their name and you creep them.

don't look at me like that, you know it's true.

just remember: 

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now am i right, or am i right?

-kandi