juliaoceania -> RE: Invasion of privacy (4/16/2007 11:36:48 AM)
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I am going to post an opinion that is not in line with most I have read. On one hand it is not a complete invasion of privacy, on the other it is slightly creepy that someone would investigate an entire posting history for a screen name before I had even met them or began exploring a real relationship with them. If a man did this to me I would not continue discourse with him and I would worry he was a little obsessive to be honest. I do not do anything resembling research on people that I have no vested interest in, and talking a few times in email or in IM is NOT a vested interest. The type of people I like are the ones that are too busy with their lives to be overly focused on forum posts from a decade ago made by a prospect that might not pan out anyways... wait until at least the first date is over[:D] You know people, there are all sorts of public records out there about you that someone could research and it is technically not an invasion of privacy.. your driving record, ownership of property, liens, court records of births, deaths, adoptions. I would find it creepy if someone looked up this information about me before I really knew them too... I am from a small town. One thing that used to bug me is when I would hear people base their dating decisions based upon rumors that they would research about another individual. It is one thing to find out the basic facts of someone's life, but I knew of people that would go beyond that, trying to find out particulars of people they were not even dating yet... just interested in. I thought that creepy too.
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