Where would I be in life today without the internet? I really don’t know. I love information at the tips of my fingers but I still get frustrated about the lack of things I’m able to find. It’s not perfect … yet. I wish I got paid to find things on the internet …. I have so many great techniques. Here is a list of great things I have accomplished on the internet.
1. Nights of entertainment, searching through free criminal records of people I went to high school with.
(reason: curiosity I guess. Wondering if the jerks in high school really made it anywhere, or if they are rotting in a jail cell somewhere.)
2. Finding MySpace blogs of people I went to high school with.
(reason: curiosity, boredom)
3. Endless mindgames played on people (Julie as my partner in crime) via fake AIM screen-names and fake identities. I was once a boy named Jason who just happened to “accidentally” email my ex-boyfriends new girlfriend. Oh and Jason just happened to know my ex-boyfriend. Soon we had a flourishing online relationship and courtesy of her best-pals email, I found out she was seriously contemplating on meeting me in real life. I’d had my fun …. I let things end.
(reason: revenge, jealousy, anger, a way to curb my desire to stab certain individuals)
4. I met Todd
(reason: lonlieness, boredom, curiosity, hoping to find someone)
5. I made many websites
(reason: everyone else was doing it … seemed fun, now I’m addicted!)
6. I found out my landlord wasn’t paying his taxes and realized the house I was living in was going up for sherrif’s sale. As of May 2005 it was bought for $6,000 by some company in California. This knowledge saved me from potentially being homeless although I highly doubt I would have stayed much longer than I ended up staying anyways. It kind of sucked there.
(reason: investigation upon finding notices that gas was being shut off, coming home to find I had no cable, endless calls from bill collectors on the main line at the house)
7. I know who has babies and have read many obituaries.
(reason: curiosity)
8. By use of keylogger I found out my ex-boyfriend’s email password, went into his email, slightly modified his lover’s email address in his address book, set up an email account at that modified address, and waited. Two days later I recieved an email from him to “her” stating that he was sorry she was upset that he was seeing “me” again but I had just bought him a Blink 182 ticket and he really wanted to go so he had to pretend to like me. Yeah, the truth hurts and sometimes you think you are better off not knowing, but I’ve learned that when you feel wrong about something, there is usually something really wrong about it. Needless to say, he didn’t make it to that concert.
(reason: just confirming my worst fear. Unfortunately I was right. Unfortunately if I hadn’t sought the truth in such a sneaky way I would still to this day never really know that I was being lied to. Some men are good liars even when you think you know everything about them. 3 years ….. wasted ….. think twice before you claim to know someone.)
9. Many lovely IM conversations that still make me spit out my coffee when I read them.
(reason: boredom, entertainment)
10. Found out that this crazy guy who used to call me at work everyday is truly crazy. Now you know I’m not lying when I say that “nuts” call me at work. He wanted us to assist him in getting a citizenship in another country and we got a background check on him and found out he wasn’t even allowed to leave the state. But he still kept calling … he finally gave up after police were brought into the picture. I guess his backup plan didn’t pan out very well either.
(reason: just by chance … it was a headline in the paper)
So yes, the internet is a great place. And perhaps you understand my reservations about revealing much on this website …. how am I to know that some psycho who calls me at work, or some scorned lover wouldn’t come across me and find some really good way to fuck with me … I mean, I’ve done it.