Stalked and enjoying it
Stalking and being stalked has become a pastime for many
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All the world is a web. And all the men and women are mere stalkers. And it’s not just Kareena or Aishwarya who are being stalked. If you are active on any of the social networking sites, chances are you are being stalked. But hang on, don’t hurry and block your pictures or delete all your accounts. These are friendly and harmless stalkers.
And stalking gets endorsements from Bollywood celebrities. Take Karan Johar, for instance. On a TV show, he recently admitted that stalking on Facebook is his favourite pastime. Further, he said he loves accepting friends request on Facebook from his ‘cool classmates’ – both school and college. It’s altogether a different thing that these ‘cool classmates’ treated Karan like a non-entity for his ‘un-cool looks.’
On the TV show with Farah Khan, he confessed: “I love accepting those friendship requests that says, ‘hey remember I was your friend in school or college?’ I add them and enjoy going through their albums and enjoy seeing those swans turn to ugly ducklings now.”
But that’s Bollywood.
In the commonwood too the stalkers are here, there and everywhere.
With an increasing number of people signing up on social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, Twitter and Hi5, you can never be sure of who has gone through your details, album or messages. And there is a lot of browsing done. Yes, mostly from complete strangers checking you out everyday
“I enjoy seeing the ‘good girls’ from school turn into wild things now. These are the ones who probably looked down at some of us for wearing knee-length skirts while they wore skirts that touched their ankles, for not oiling and braiding our hair like theirs and instead sporting it short. Now that they are out of school and studying abroad, these ‘good girls’ have…More
