social media stalking
Digital profile lurking
Social media stalking is obsessively monitoring someone's online presence—scrolling through their posts, photos, followers, and tagged content, often going deep into their history.
Unlike criminal stalking, it's usually harmless curiosity or romantic fixation conducted from a distance: I spent an hour social media stalking my ex's new girlfriend.
The stalker typically hopes to remain undetected.
- lurkingConcealed and watchful
- obsessingThinking about compulsively
- profileSide-facing outline
- fake profileFabricated online identity
- burner accountDisposable online identity
ex · mutual friends · photos · screenshots · creeping · deep dive · following · blocked · going private · notifications · unfriended · tagged · timeline · history · searching · clicking · watching · last seen
- stalkingcyberstalking, following, obsession, restraining order, restraining orders
- bad habitssmoking, drinking, lying, swearing, gossiping
- puppy lovefirst crush, first kiss, first love, crush, crushes
- Internet Rabbit Holesdeep dives, Reddit threads, endless scrolling
- overparentinghelicopter parenting, helicopter parent, overprotective, overprotection, overprotecting
- intrusionsintrusion, intrude, intruder, intruding, barging in
social media stalkingdigital detox
Period avoiding electronic devices
social media break · logging off · unplugging · digital minimalism
social media stalkingself-promotion
Publicizing one's own merits
posting · content creation · broadcasting · personal branding · vlogging
social, media, stalking, society, societal, socialize, socialization, socialist, socialism