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My boyfriends ex girlfriend is creeping me on myspace and facebook. what do i do?

Asked by A_Beaverhausen (2443points) December 20th, 2008

we have mutual friends and she just keeps gossiping. and of course it gets back to me. im so annoyed and need help.

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JacobHoHo's avatar

First block her from your profile if you haven’t already, and then just ignore her.
Don’t stress the people that are just out to hurt you, it just gives them what they want, and it makes you worry unnecessarily.

plus if your dating him now, your probably i way better girlfriend than she was and she’s just jealous!!.

jrpowell's avatar

Back in the day people gossiped at lunch and during math class. Ignore it, they will get bored and leave you alone eventually. Don’t give them the attention they desperately seek.

PupnTaco's avatar

Get off MySpace and Facebook?

galileogirl's avatar

And tell your “friends” that you are not interested.

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

If you respond, she “wins.” If you don’t want her to “win”, then you_____ _____. (Everyone answer don’t respond? Good)

Friends who feel the need to tell you what she says aren’t really your friends. Real friends would drop her from their friends list, and tell her to shut up, all without telling you a thing about it. People who tell you what she says, delivering the word-for-word, are just like those egging on a cat fight at school.

It takes two people to have an argument. Once it becomes clear that you are not showing up for the event, she will give up and go away. I personally like Obama’s technique of laughing stuff off, and shaking his head.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

Everyone is a creeper on facebook, that’s not the big issue. If she is spreading rumors that are detrimental to your reputation, that’s when you have a problem. Confront her about it, ask her civilly to stop. If she doesn’t, don’t worry too much about it; eventually she might get bored or move on to a new boy.

galileogirl's avatar

Alfreda right/Tits wrong

Since the creeper is looking for a response, why would A B possibly want to encourage her?

What horrible thing could a creeper reveal about you A B? Whatever she wrote about you would not harm your reputation in the eyes of the millios of browsers whp don’t even know you and I am sure lies will not convince the people who do know you.

BTW It never occurred to me that one day I would type the phrase “Tits wromg” because I have the highest regard for mine

TitsMcGhee's avatar

@galileogirl: I didn’t say ENCOURAGE her… and being a “creeper” on facebook implies that the disgruntled ex is looking at her facebook a lot, checking up on stuff, not that she is finding something out on her profile and spreading THAT as a rumor. If there was anything like that on her facebook profile that was gossip-worthy/reputation-ruining, maybe it shouldn’t be on the public forum of facebook in the first place.

What I was saying was, if this is just an instance of an exgirlfriend looking at the new girlfriend’s facebook profile, that’s not that big a deal. We have all done it (my suitemate looks at her ex’s new girlfriend’s facebook a few times a week just to vent because she is still hung up on him). The gossip, whether its on the internet or not, is problematic. I’m assuming the gossip is just her talking, and she shouldn’t be talking about what she saw on facebook, because anyone can see that.

galileogirl's avatar

WE haven’t all done it. Some of us leave relationships without drama and move on. And if WE don’t want people to check us out online we don’t publish our lives publicly and like the tree falling in the forest, if there is no one listening to gossip, does it really exist. No one has anything to say if there is noone giving them a place to say it.

The thing is if we keep our private lives private everything is less problematic. Eor example if A B is not identifying herself to a lot of strangers, how does ex find out information to comment on.

There is something a little exhibitionistic and immature about those forums that scream look at me and my mundane life. And I don’t buy the communication excuse. There are plenty of private ways to communicate, Don’t complain if exhibitionists draw voyeurs.<;}

TitsMcGhee's avatar

We’re actually agreeing on parts of this… And by “we,” I meant that people of my generation use facebook for things like this on a regular basis. I can’t count the number of hours I’ve wasted looking at random things on facebook, be it related to exes or friends. The nature of facebook is just like that. The other thing is, facebook isn’t for random strangers to be looking it; it connects people to each other through a network of people you KNOW. For the most part, people do not friend people they don’t know, and most profiles are only accessible if you are friends with the person.

And, not that this question was a critique of facebook to begin with, but facebook is the best means of communication out there. It is quick and simple and EASY. Everyone is in the same place, you don’t have to make a large number of calls, you don’t have to have everyone’s email address. You can access everyone from your best friend to a girl you used to talk to at the bus stop in 4th grade (true story) instantaneously, and it is there to be easily responded to as well. You can put as much or as little about yourself in your profile as you’d like. I don’t allow strangers (voyeurs, if you will) to see my profile, , and I don’t find it particularly exhibitionist either. My view is: don’t knock it until you try it.

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

It’s one thing to look at someone’s FB or MySpace page, it’s another to have friends in common and say things about AB to those common friends. That’s just plain old catty, and as long as you give some indication that you will play along, they will keep at it, and drama-loving erstwhile “friends” will help the drama along. If you don’t play along, it’s not much fun for everyone else, and it ends. Unfortunately, it seems that taking action would help it end faster, but really, patient silence puts an end to it much sooner.

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