I managed to snap a photo of this person. Gender unknown but I suspect it is a woman. Love the facial expression, may not see it but the brow is furrowed and clearly lost in thought.
Please don’t steal my photo. ©IAmJulienne 2011
Facebook is the most common and the best stalking tool. I use it to find out all sorts of information about people. It’s a known fact that employers also look at Facebook now to determine who their applicants, employees, etc really are.
(Disclaimer! Again, I don’t advocate stalking in a criminal sense. We all do our stalking because we are curious. Please do not act evilly on your curiosity. If you do I will not be held responsible.)
Let’s be real. The primary reason for stalking – relationships.
- Who your ex is dating?
- What do they look like?
- Are they hotter than you?
- What they’re up to?
- Who is your significant other’s ex? Do they still talk? Are they facebook friends?
- Is your significant other is cheating on you?
- Does the guy who asked me out on a date have a girlfriend/fiancee/wife/kid? (happens to me)
- Is the girl texting you a psycho?
- What does the person do for a living?
- Does your son/daughter have a girlfriend/boyfriend? What do they look like?
- Are people who they really say they are?!
The trick to using Facebook as your stalking tool, you have to be very very observant. Also you have to be thorough and quite patient. Know your target. Know the information you need so you can weed out all the irrelevant stuff. Most importantly, be prepared for whatever you might find.
I shall bring back the example of Crush O’Mine and Longlost Friend
Basics of Facebook Stalking:
Step 1 – Finding your target
This is the easiest step. Search their name. While chances of you finding them this way are slim (dozens of people could have a similar name), it’s still worth a shot. Second option, search using their email. If you are looking for a female friend, remember that they could have gotten married and their last name will be different.
If neither of these work, think of mutual friends and find that mutual friend instead. If you are lucky, you may already be connected. Go through mutual friend’s friends to find Longlost Friend or Crush O’Mine.
**If you still can’t find them, they might not be searchable on Facebook. If you suspect this, do a search on Google instead. Check back once in a while to see if they become searchable. That’s what a true stalker would do. Haha.
**If you suspect you are BLOCKED from their profile, conduct a search while logged in as someone else. Ask a sibling, bestfriend, etc for help with this one.
Step 2 – Target Acquired
If it is secure and you can’t see anything in their profile, sometimes this is fine depending on what your purpose is. If you can only see their profile photo, at least now you know what they look like, if that’s what you’re trying to find. Sometimes people will have group photos and you can’t tell which one is the person in question, check back in later. They’re bound to change their profile picture. If you have nothing to fear, add this person as a friend.
If you are lucky and they are lax on their Facebook Profile Security, start checking whatever is public. This almost always brings answers. Learn to weed out the meat from the clutter. There will be stuff you don’t need to know. Learn to spot the good stuff.
- For the Love Interests – People they are in the photos with. Children they are in pictures with. Where these photos are taken. Photos they are tagged in. People who most commonly comment on their profile. The nature of these comments are sometimes helpful :
- Happy Father’s/Mother’s Day greetings = they are parents.
- Happy Anniversary/Congratulations = they are not single even if they say they are.
- Romantic Messages
- The status messages they post – is the person you’re stalking weird? Haha.
*Learn to use information in tandem. People they’re in photos with + people leaving messages on their wall = possibly important information. Also, don’t jump to conclusions. Just because they are in photos together, doesn’t mean anything. So, again, observe. Observe over a period of time if you must. But I don’t recommend torturing yourself this way.
- For the Old Friends – Add them on facebook and keep in touch via FB Chat and stuff. No need to stalk when you can ask them directly.
If hope this helps. 😀 Have fun! And BE GOOD.
I’m good at looking people up on the internet. My skills amaze me sometimes. It’s not that hard and it’s mostly free. You just have to be resourceful. So, I shall share with you my MO when I’m stalking people on the internet.
Disclaimer! This post is meant to be taken lightly. I’m NOT at all advocating stalking in a criminal sense. Don’t do that. It’s not nice. However, if you wanna look up your crush or that person from work you hate, then this is a good way to do it.
Another really good reason to know how to stalk is.. to stalk yourself. In this day and age where everything on the internet lives forever, you want to know what people will find when they run a background search on you. So, once in a while, Google yourself.
GOOGLE is all you really need when you’re looking someone or something up. If it’s a person, let’s name them Crush O’Mine, input their name straight into Google and click search.
- Crush O’Mine
- Cru O’Mine
- Crush H. O’Mine
- any other names they go by, maiden names, nicknames, other versions of their name
If their name is generic, you HAVE to put a tidbit of information that will help Google narrow down the search. For example:
- Crush O’Mine School they Attended
- Crush O’Mine Sport they like to play / any hobbies or affiliates
- Crush O’Mine Where they work
These results will show you historical, safe and “professional” data. Nothing that interesting if you’re trying to get to the good stuff. IF you know the person’s online profile (ie. Screen name, email address), then you can google those.
- CrushO’[email protected]
- Crush O’Mine Iamcute9923 (name + screename)
- Cru O’Mine (nickname) + email or screenname etc
- Crush O’Mine Twitter/Facebook/Myspace/Formspring/blogger, etc
These results, if any will bring up your Crush’s internet activity. Any blogs, any profiles, any comments they have left on other sites, etc.
GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH is also a good tool. Run the name to see what photos come up. Run screen names also.
You can do this on other search engines(Yahoo, Startnow, Bing) also, depending on how thorough you want your search to be. Sometimes other engines will pull up results that Google won’t.. but this is unlikely.
Yes, you’re thinking what about Facebook? That’s for an entirely different day since that will be a longer post.
I’m not super thin nor am I super tall, both requirements to be a model. Otherwise, I would probably model a lot often. So I model but, occasionally. It’s tough, in an industry where tall, ultra-thin girls are cheaper by the dozen. While I understand the reasoning behind thin models (cuz the clothes fit them better and designers can make samples only in one size) I wish people would realize that the model look is far from reality. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
ANYWAY. I’m not about to get into that discussion since it’s quite heavy. I just wanted to share. Apparently, the model-thin standard applies to dogs also. Haha. So first the human models, now the dogs too!
We received the Louis Vuitton 2011-2012 Fall Winter Women’s Shoes Collection in the mail the other day. Conceptualized by the advertising giant Ogivly, it’s an impressive catalog with amazing scenic photography and the styling is incredible.
Love the collection and the look of the whole campaign. Very classy and very upscale with the plane, the jaguar, first class travel, Louis Vuitton travel cases, etc! Models tall, slender and perfect, as always.
After this, I looked for the dog that LV sometimes places in its campaigns to complete the lifestyles of the rich and famous look. In this campaign, it’s a gorgeous long-haired whippet. For those that don’t know, whippets are similar to greyhounds therefore, I immediately noticed, VERY THIN! Haha!
(btw, I love the boots and lumineuse bag Monogram Empreinte leather!)
This makes me laugh. I guess dog models have to be thin too? I wonder why LV didn’t select a big fat slobbering American bulldog. I guess it would’ve messed the look up.
(all photos: scanned from Louis Vuitton Catalog. Since I don’t own these images, thanks LV for letting me use them.)
So you and your boyfriend are in love. You share everything together. You trust him 100%. That’s great and all during the good times but what happens during the bad times? Trust me, there will be bad times.
So this is why sharing a bank account is bad:
1) If you fight or break up, what happens to the money? Who takes it?
2) Since you share the money, who decides how to spend it?
3) What if you want to buy something for yourself and your significant other doesn’t approve?
3a) Does this mean you have to ask permission from them?! Oh my god. No! How demeaning. Is your significant other your boss as well?
4) What if you deposit more money into the account and all your Significant Other does is spend? What if they don’t contribute? That’s not fair.
Bottom line, don’t share bank accounts. It’s a headache and arguing over money can make any stable relationship rocky. Also you don’t want your decisions on the things you buy to be dependent on someone else. You want independence! It’s your money, no one should tell you how to spend it. If you MUST share bank accounts, make sure you keep your own personal one, no matter how little your savings are. If something (good or bad) happens, at least you have control and the ability to take care of yourself. 🙂
