Facebook Creeping

The new face book phenomenon has brought out the exhibitionist and voyeur in all of us.

Instead of going to the mall and riding the escalator so they can look up girl’s skirts - men now have Facebook. And instead of going to the beach to stare at guy’s bare chests - women now have Facebook.

While most won’t admit to Facebook creeping, everyone knows they do it, so let’s bust it wide open.

Facebook creeping can be defined as many things. I like to separate it into two categories: passive and active creeping.

Passive Creeping

The most innocent form of creeping, ‘passive’ creepers usually just look at people’s pages, read their profiles and stare at their pictures without ever interacting. I think everyone has been guilty of this at one time or another. For instance, what guy hasn’t been writing a comment on his friend’s picture when he notices an attractive young lass in the photo. So he glances down at the photo tags and notices that she also has a page. And by gosh, she has an OPEN profile.

So he casually clicks on her name and begins looking at her page. First off, he’ll be impressed by her imaginative status, something like Jo is ‘wanting to fall madly in to bed with you.’ Now he’s reading up on her favorite movies and books and funny quotes. And if she just happens to have a photo album of a trip to a tropical climate that involves bikinis, it can’t hurt to take a peek, can it? I thought not. So he looks at all the pictures of her swimming and laughing in her bikini while her skin is glistening in the sea and sun.