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My coworker thinks I'm stalking her because I found her home address on a website

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Commanche Raisin Toast

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Rest said:
Yes, it's true, it is very easy to find people's personal information online. The question is why would you ever tell someone who hadn't invited you to their home that you know where they live? Or could find out where they live?

You probably scared the shit out of that woman OP, I would not be surprised if you get fired over this (and if you were I wouldn't feel that bad for you.)
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I was with you until the bolded bit. You're okay with someone losing their fucking job and risking their livelihood over a boneheaded mistake?

I'd rather date a girl that stalked me online than a willing participant of a classic GAF dogpile thread.
 
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Zocano

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Man, you guys are *aggressive* about this shit. I feel like you guys underestimate how easy it is to find info people nowadays. And like a few have said, I will not believe anyone who says they've never done a simple google search of someone they know just to see what is available.

Now admitting it to that person who you don't know very well? That's just socially inept.
 
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Despera

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No better way to get our point across to jadedm.

Thanks Sunhi. Some amazing editing and choice of music there I must say.
 
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Beefy

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Zocano said:
Man, you guys are *aggressive* about this shit. I feel like you guys underestimate how easy it is to find info people nowadays. And like a few have said, I will not believe anyone who says they've never done a simple google search of someone they know just to see what is available.

Now admitting it to that person who you don't know very well? That's just socially inept.
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Nah, I would never look up a girls/guys address, number etc etc. Only googled searched a girl once who was with me at the time. So me and her googled each other for jokes.

Asking questions and talking to the person isn't that hard.
 
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Trey

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GhaleonEB said:
As amazing as the ending is - all of it, actually - it's also probably not far from the mark for how creepy it was to be on the receiving side of the OP's exchange.

It's never even occurred to me to research my coworkers online. The whole story is just so strange.
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Ghaleon hasn't been this shook since Halo 4 launch week.
 
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Venfayth

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My very first day at work at this job (just put in my two weeks last week, been here for 6 years!) some dude comes up to me and starts talking to me about Starcraft 2. I didn't even know his name, but he had looked me up before my start date and found one of my online profiles and saw I had a pic with Day9. Super weird feeling. Can't imagine what it's like for people to deal with legit stalkers.
 
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televator

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I kinda sorta regret that we didn't let the OP dig himself a little deeper before letting him know he was in fact a stalker. lol
 
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hydrophilic attack

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GhaleonEB said:
As amazing as the ending is - all of it, actually - it's also probably not far from the mark for how creepy it was to be on the receiving side of the OP's exchange.

It's never even occurred to me to research my coworkers online. The whole story is just so strange.
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i've done it tons of times

especially if they're cute

#yolo

just never tell them you did 😶
 
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BrassDragon

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SunhiLegend said:
https://streamable.com/r3w22
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you-bow-to-no-one.gif
 
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Buckle

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ladyluthien said:
GO"T" DAMN! Hahaha

I dated a guy for a short two weeks, who stalked me for years afterwards. He found out all this shit about me. Creeped me out. Thankfully I haven't heard from the guy since I changed homes and phone numbers.
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Yeah, I'm worried about stuff like this becoming more common over time.

Information is everywhere on the internet these days but just because you can find it, doesn't mean people are going to be ok with you going out of your way to look it up or using it to try to get too personal with someone.

Especially if you're using it on women. Couldn't even imagine how uncomfortable the idea of anyone putting together a research project or some sort of mental database of their personal information would be for them.

Not calling you a monster or anything, OP, but its important to remember if you wouldn't ask it to them upfront becuase they barely know you, they probably wouldn't be too happy with you digging for it online either.
 
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