WHO ARE YOU STALKING?

I have Google stalked a lot of different people. Classmates, old lovers, my boyfriends (his dealings), my friends, my old friends and co-workers. I am horrible I know it. I can’t stop doing it though. I stalked an ex lover we worked together for many years, had a fling then I moved on to a different job. I was no longer in need of the connection with him so I broke it off. He was married (his wife ok’d us as she was “dating another guy). I now find out that a year to the date he started having an affair with his wife’s close friend (I know behind her back as she after me of course didn’t want him with another she was to jealous), now him and the wife of 20 years are now divorced and he is set to marry this other chick in like 5 months. They are going to get married exactly 10 months after he left his wife for her. I don’t talk to either of them I just was messing around and Googled. I knew what forums he hung out and used. She had her own site, so did her ex friend (his new fiance). I don’t know if I will ever stop Google stalking them. I will never talk to them I just wonder whats up. (though he and his wife both tried in vain to stay in contact with me.) Oh well…gotta finish up work now!

I am a doctor working in medical education and health, and have published many articles that are freely available on the internet. When you Google my name, you find stuff written by me, but also by other doctors with exactly the same name, but it’s almost impossible to find out who wrote what. Occasionally, I have attended meetings and been introduced to a new person and they’ll say ‘of course. I’m familiar with your work in the field of whatever…’ and they give a smug look of superiority, like they already know all about you. The thing is, I’ve not done this work, and I say ‘that’s another Dr etc..” and then I realised that I’ve been Google stalked. These people are often quite shallow, control freaks, and it outs any new relationship on a bad footing. I don’t mind people using the internet to contact me directly, but there’s obviously people out there making decision about people base don totally false information. When I meet these people now, I say to them, ‘don’t believe everything you read on Google. Should I have Googled you before you came to the meeting? I don’t know what the polite protocol is now?’ He, he…