Voyeurism is just a more sophistcated term for nosiness...Facebook and Stupid Things

Thank you Facebook for making it all too easy to become a voyeur or certified cyber stalker:

Thanks to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Google you can now find more information on someone than you would on a first date!  Not to mention the things you can find out about people you already know. 

Now as far as seeing information on people you already know. I have become all too familiar with the "Hide" feature on Facebook. I can now hide all the Facebook updates of certain people. You know the ones who have to update their status every 30 seconds...or the ones you just haven't had the heart to remove from your friends list. Yes I am a push over and I know it.

Facebook and Stupid Things:

Stupid Thing #1:

Friending a potential date on Facebook. I now believe that this is the kiss of death. You loose before you even secure a first date. I did it we exchanged a few pleasantries and then it was over...partially because I am stubborn and won't initiate further communication and partially because I am worried it's because he isn't interested. 

Stupid Thing #2:

Cyber stalking potential dates (this is different from #1, you don't friend him on Facebook). So there's this guy who has invited me out for drinks and in a moment of insanity I decided to google him. (thanks Merriam-Webster for making to google a verb) I now know more about him than I should and we haven't been able to find a day that works with both out schedules yet. Perhaps the cyber stalking is also a kiss of death for a potential date.

Stupid Thing #3:

After hiding your exes status from your Facebook feed you occasionally give in to some sick masochistic desire to see what they are up to by visiting their profile. You see what a great time they are having instead of being miserable while you set out to create the life you should have had 5 years ago. No I don't want him back, it's not him I want it's the couple-ness that I miss. I am not meant to be single. And now the douche bag has removed his relationship status from single....to nothing. Not sure what that means, but I am of course left to stew over it and drive myself crazy over nothing. A nothing that shouldn't matter to me at all. But it does.