I Spy

The SouthAfrican and i were talking about Facebook today, talking about the delicate art that is 'facebook stalking'. Where's the line between being interested in what's happening in your society and stalking people?

We've decided that checking out who wrote what on who's walls is fine. Looking at your friend's pictures is ok too, and so is keeping your eye on people's relationship status' - because curiosity like that never killed the cat.

However, when you start adding people you don't know, just so that you can see what your friends have been writing to them, or when you start downloading other people's pictures onto your hard-drive, so that you can look at them whenever you like, you've taken things a little too far and it's time to step away from your computer!

Really, if you think about it, facebook is essentially just one big stalker-network; people checking out what people write to other people, seeing who'll be at what event, or who's birthday is coming up. If we wanted to keep everything private, we'd use email, so there must be a little bit of something in all of us that is a stalker by nature...