Is it weird to look up new coworkers on FB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I too, like other PPs, look up anybody and everybody on FB and google and often dig deep if I feel like it. I assume others do too so I keep my FB page mostly private.

You could say to your superior that you noticed on your friend's page that they also were friends with them, that would be kind of normal without looking like stalking behavior. As in, Do you know Jack Smith? I noticed on his FB page that you are a friend of his.

Looking at FB, IG isn't stalking. It is exactly what it is. A networking ( work or social) platform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I look people up all the time, but I also look up their home address and get pictures of their house. I know what everyone’s house is worth, where their kids go to school, what activities they were involved in during college (thanks to LinkedIn), and I know one person had a DUI.

For some of them, I know how old their parents are and where their parents live.

For one guy, I found reviews he left on Amazon for different products.

[Anonymous]

I just had a coworker come up as a “friend suggestion” so I assume she looked me up. I’m not FB friends with any colleagues until I no longer work with them.

[Anonymous]

Stalking, odd behavior to look up Xo-workers on social media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Facebook makes “friend suggestions” based on who visits your page. So your boss might be able to deduce that you’ve looked her up because Facebook will likely suggest you as a friend.

Nah, it doesn't.

Friend suggestions come from things like:
Having friends in common
Your networks, such as your current city, school or work
Being in the same Facebook group
Being tagged in the same photo or post
Contacts you uploaded

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It gets weird because if you do have people in common, how do you ever bring that up. Everyone knows the “oh haha you came up as a suggested mutual friend” is BS.

Except that FB is always recommending people to me who are mutual friends and they are people I’ve never looked up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I look people up all the time, but I also look up their home address and get pictures of their house. I know what everyone’s house is worth, where their kids go to school, what activities they were involved in during college (thanks to LinkedIn), and I know one person had a DUI.

For some of them, I know how old their parents are and where their parents live.

For one guy, I found reviews he left on Amazon for different products.

Right there with you. Mostly I’m trying to figure out “how she does it”,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742650/

And usually I figure out, oh parents are super rich or their DD went to HYP just like her grandpa, etc…

It only gets weird when you impersonate someone from high school to access private pages.

https://youtu.be/8wxBLq_C2KQ?si=ZnpvG1V6vSruE3AF

This clip is almost a decade old so like OLD — it’s just normal now but when first started it was embarrassing

Things they are publishing PUBLIC on the interwebs? Rather my coworkers do that the randos.

I honestly love serendipitous connections, but probably because I’m from middle of nowhere so rarely run into any one from my region of the state (it’s actually only happened once).

[Anonymous]

Everybody looks everybody up.

[Anonymous]

I find it weirder new co-workers who don’t exist at all on-line

[Anonymous]

Not weird, I look everyone up. But I don't tell them. That's weird.

Also, I'm terribly paranoid that i'll accidentally friend request them or hit like on a public post. So I only snoop on my desktop computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Facebook makes “friend suggestions” based on who visits your page. So your boss might be able to deduce that you’ve looked her up because Facebook will likely suggest you as a friend.

Nah, it doesn't.

Friend suggestions come from things like:
Having friends in common
Your networks, such as your current city, school or work
Being in the same Facebook group
Being tagged in the same photo or post
Contacts you uploaded

Run an experiment. Have someone who is not a FB friend spend a few minutes looking at your profile and pictures. Then wait several days and see if they come up as a friend suggestion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It gets weird because if you do have people in common, how do you ever bring that up. Everyone knows the “oh haha you came up as a suggested mutual friend” is BS.

Except that FB is always recommending people to me who are mutual friends and they are people I’ve never looked up!

Me too. I get the most random suggestions on FB. It’s been people I’ve never looked up or thought about, and there they are.

[Anonymous]

You gotta look them up on fastpeoplesearch to find their address too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody looks everybody up.

No, some of us don't. Really.

[Anonymous]

If looking up on FB is weird then looking up on LinkedIn should be weird too. LinkedIn is worse than FB.

IMO, looking up on any social media platforms is not weird.