Teenage Crushes - Part TwoFreddie Woo writes: I've still got weird feelings for a well-known female TV presenter from the 1980s. I'm now in my forties, work in the same building as her and she follows me on a number of social networking sites. And now, she knows about it.
Tell us about the teenage crushes that still make you go wobbly.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 11:04)
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this ...... read like a semi-ironic 'how to' guide for cyberstalking ... but it's a case of don't shoot the messenger too ... before this internet thing, tracking people down was a job for private detectives, the police, obsessives or the inland revenue - now if you're bored in front of your computer you can ask yourself out of the blue 'i wonder whatever happened to X?' and go and find out with a few clicks (if they have an online presence) ...
when i was at uni, my first girlfriend had a fling with another bloke who seemed to be destined for great creative things ... hadn't thought about him for years when a random thought process threw up his name and i googled it ... turns out he popped his clogs in his 30s ... oddly enough, i didn't think "ha haaaa!", i felt more like i was driving slowly past a car crash ... just vaguely disturbed ...
er, um, the point of all this being that our own use of the internet has made tracking people down quite easy ... and if you leave loaded guns lying around the place, someone is going to 'just have a go' at some point...
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