A reader asks:
If perpetually I go on to Google Street View and "drive" past the homes, hangouts, and workplaces of my exes, am I stalking them?
WTF? You're just looking at pictures! Then again, insofar as stalking has a psychological component (viz., obsessive need to monitor), then maybe this is stalking.
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suggestion: if you think that what you're doing might be stalking, it is.
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman['s address] to lust after her hath committed [a stalker's] adultery with her [always] already in his heart."
The Good Book speaks [kinda] clearly to this.
Damn it, Mark, I told you it's over. Give it up already.
But if Kendall Walton's transparency thesis -- the claim that when I look at a photograph depicting an object, I'm actually looking at the object, not a representation of it (just as I actually see an object I see through a telescope or in a mirror) -- is correct, the "you're just looking at pictures" response won't do. But then again, looking at a picture of your ex's window (especially one not taken by your or someone in your employ) seems far less creepy than looking at (or through) your ex's window through a pair of binoculars ...
Interesting amalgam of activities made possible by the internets:
A bit of Cyberstalking minus the the harassment component, a bit of Voyeurism minus the IRL component, with a dose of Surveillance on Google's part minus up-to-date tracking = A Sims-like life-simulator for someone to obsess about their exes.
Someone should create a program and market this.
729: "Someone should create a program and market this."
YES! It would be easy-- a virtual world in which a (real world) user is able to create a virtual-world avatar in the likeness of the person he or she wants to (virtually) stalk. The game involves "finding" and simultaneously hiding from the avatar. We'd make millions.
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