obviously (but a thing i didn’t really think about until now)…

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"After all, some people, mostly women, not all of them in the porn business, had Web sites hooked up to a camera in their home: you could watch them talking on the phone, eating toast, taking a shower, sleeping, and you could read the diaries in which they nattered on about their day, entries so unenlivened by wit or dash or passion or curiosity that you despaired for the human race. Perhaps if I persisted I would discover tucked away in a far corner of the Web a camera recording his new life: Did he and his new girlfriend stay up till 3 A.M. talking? Did she wake up at night and lie there brimming over with happiness? Of course, a camera couldn’t tell you that; all you’d see would be a quilt with a lump under it. Still, I might have watched."

Katha Pollitt, “Webstalker”

through tangential tumblr creeping, the universe revealed to me exactly the thing i needed to read today.

why is your ex-girlfriend liking your current whatever-she-is’s comments on your wall? do you only date girls who are SO FUCKING NICE? and like engaging in weird facebook tactics. urgh. i would never have survived. welcome to my petty facebook stalking sunday night!