Have you ever been Facebook stalked...I have, but the worst part wasn't the stalking itself but the fact that you obviously friended this person at some point and know who they are so why are they constantly monitoring your whereabouts, pictures and friends through your page. When I first joined Facebook it was primarily because I was bored and everyone I knew was talking about it. What I didn't realize was other people love monitoring and reading other peoples statuses, and I am not going to lie I too fell prey to reading the juicy statuses and posts. They were filled with gossip, drama and subjects that beat a good soap opera any day. Well before I knew it my friends list had grown to include friends from every area of my life and being that I was determined to do things differently I added "church folk" to my friends list as well.
Oh "church folk", how you deceive me with your trickery of friendship and love. You aren't Christians just imitations of the life a Christian should lead, but that's a story for another day.
Well let me tell you what these insecure "church folk" did, first of all they friended me on Facebook. Although I wasn't trying to be their friend I figured what could it hurt, I saw them in church all the time and my page was very positive and full of life and Christian values. Well Ha, Ha, Ha--jokes on me these "church folk" made it their business to aggravate and annoy me. First of all they started commenting on nearly every status I wrote. I would only comment back or on the ones that I found encouraging. Next they began commenting on various photos in my albums(I had a lot of pics and in a lot of albums), old and new. Even though I found that absolutely nosy and annoying I tolerated it, and things just got worse from there. The stalker behavior had begun and now they were even coming back to church and telling me things about my page and asking questions and still I tolerated their annoying behavior. What came next shocked me beyond all belief, they tagged my BFF and I in a pic we took and posted on our own pages months before. Then they had the absolute audacity to go to the pastor and try and convince him that my BFF and I who have been friends and like sisters for over 10 years were gay. They gathered pic after pic of us hanging out and the crazy part was a lot of those pics we took with other people and they cut people out or only used the pics of us together at parties, karaoke, hanging out, etc. They started monitoring our whereabouts and statuses, and it was all because they felt we weren't trying to be their friends.
Then there are the relatives that monitor your page so that they have something to discuss with other relatives at family functions because their lives are obviously not that exciting. Do you know how many times I've seen family members act out online. My favorite was one time my brother and I were obviously arguing through Facebook and a family member called my mother and told her that we had been arguing online and she started complaining about her life being ruined by us. Needless to say that was the only time I did that but the incessant nosiness of people is magnified ten times by the convenience of such a site.
So to conclude I hate Facebook stalkers, which means if you're logging on everyday to monitor people and their statuses and pics I am talking to you.
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