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10 Reasons Why You Should Never Online Stalk An Ex Again (Never, Ever)

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  • http://helloalle.com/ Alle

    This is a perfect example of turning lemons into lemonade.
    Loves you, Skippy. You’re so much cooler than any dental hygienist.

    • Amanda Chatel

      Haha! I just blew Diet Coke out my nose. Thank you, A-Dawg!

  • Tania

    This one was difficult for me! I finally got over it when I happened across something his ex-fiance/new-best-friend posted on Reddit (that was fun) and realized she was stalking my blog, knowing it upset me, because she “fucking loves drama.”

    And I realized that if that bastard thinks *I’m* mean for completely unknown reasons (telling him he shouldn’t make a snap decision to move to Europe after spending two months there, while currently being frustrated with his school for not telling him he needed to get another background check and not being sure he can even finish his teacher cert, and while doing nothing but playing WoW and Redditing? That he should wait until he’s settled back into school and work and then decide? Fucking bitch, I tell you), but he has no problem with her stalking my blog and Facebook because she sleeps with him even when she has boyfriends and never disagrees with him? I don’t need him.

    • Amanda Chatel

      That was A LOT to process! Takeaway? You’re so much better off and she needs to read this and quit stalking you.

    • Tania

      I made my blog private, so she can’t stalk it any longer, but damned if she didn’t keep checking it every day until I did. (Thanks, Analytics.) I feel very vindicated when talking about this to friends and being told “I can’t imagine you ever being mean.” I guess he’s a permanent man-child, stuck in the phase where any sort of disagreement means you’re being mean.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nadia.marti.94 Nadia Martí

    I stopped facebook stalking exes and crushes when I accidentally posted a guy’s name on his best friend’s wall…and didn’t realize I had…thought I was in the search bar.

    • Tania

      Oh, cringe.

    • Amanda Chatel

      Haha! Oh man, I’ve done that before, but caught myself at the last minute… more than once.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=677221827 Christine Dewater

    Been like a month and a half since I last stalked my ex. SO SO tempting, but do I really need to make myself miserable? NO! He’s married, has a kid, has a house. There is nothing there I need to see. And it killed me to know he was bicycle racing again. Because I want him to, but I missed being there.

  • Roxanne

    I was never much of a true stalker, but when I found out that my ex-husband’s girlfriend and I had a mutual Facebook friend, it freaked me out. http://wp.me/p1sXPw-h But since then I have a self imposed black out. I never look and you know what?– it’s not that hard and is actually empowering. It’s been years since I’ve even clicked once. I don’t put anything personal on facebook anymore. If anyone stalks me, I’m happily unaware.

  • cannonball101

    I recently discovered an ex now has a Twitter. He’s a graphic designer/photographer, so it makes sense, however, when we were together he was EXTREMELY anti-social media, so it was like I was suddenly seeing something from a person that I knew, but had become someone else entirely. Which, I guess, is exactly what happened.

    I can’t stop checking his Twitter/Instagram…and it’s bad for me, because it’s making me feel bad about my life. I’M STILL AWESOME, THOUGH, I JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT!! (…right?…)

    • Amanda Chatel

      You’re super awesome. ‘Nuff said.

  • G.

    The last picture of the macaron is so fucking disgusting! Why did you do that to my eyes? Worst picture of a macaron EVER.

  • …her?

    But isn’t the true purpose of the internet stalking? Just me? Ok.

  • smurr

    Why is the F bomb in this article?