Tag: FACEBOOKSTALKERS

Trend story or bona fide trend? The Guardian reports that the birth parents of adopted children are flocking to Facebook to locate and contact their descendants. The article claims that, at least in the U.K., two-thirds of adopted children are removed from their birth parents due to abuse or neglect; and now "huge numbers" of adoptive parents are reporting that their children are being contacted ...

Surreptitious spying has become firmly and universally established as a social networking given. Parents, employers, lovers, friends, and even law enforcement officials have turned to sites like Facebook and Twitter to monitor, find, and implicate frivolous and oblivious posters. The legality of such practices rests in a gray area, though, and the potential wrongdoing is definitely not isolated ...

Doctors are definitely familiar with disturbing public stalkers, the annoying breed who feel the need to disrupt parties and private moments with disgusting queries of "Does this look infected?" A new type of hypochondriac has become so concerning, though, that officials in England have been forced to issue a public warning to people in the medical profession. The U.K.'s Medical Defense Union ...