NEWS: Does Gawker Stalker Promote Stalking?

That is so close to reality, it's frightening.

Stop reading my public profile, perv.

I knew Kate had a giant penis!

Or her husband's. Can you imagine what a giant penis would do to that poor, little man's rectum?

no shit? So a site with STALKER in the name promotes stalking? the one entry I was interested in was maggie gyllenthaal. It was someone helping her move into the house, and they put the full address. GREAT so now people know exactly where she lives?

Agreed, to every single word of this. Frankly, the ones you should feel badly for are those who are celebrities who are poor, like say, Mike Tyson, who is forced to be his own security.

Yeah, there is no way to find that out any other way!!

I stalk you sometimes. Like, a lot. Sometimes I write your name all over my body in sharpie marker and then I make care packages to send to your cats. Seriously, I'm very deprived.

The issue isn't seeing people, the issue is reporting GPS coordinates of people's whereabouts on the internet to easily facilitate other people seeing them as well. You can be sure as shit if I posted the GPS coordinates of a single SG's house on this forum, I'd get about 10,000 people jumping down my throat. Why should a movie star be different, because they have the money to hire a bodyguard to break my knees?

yeah exactly. just because they dont deserve the movie salaries doesnt mean they deserve this. two wrongs and all that. also, im wondering how many of the people here who say 'no big deal' are in the celebrity worship sg group.

Well, I'm the owner of that group, but considering that the owner of this site is also a member of the group (as are half the people on your friends list), I guess that means that people who care what Cameron Diaz bought at Trader Joes can't be all that evil and disgusting, right?

Agreed. Similarly, it's worth pointing out that Gawker Stalker itself is not new--it's been around for at least a few years, I think, and has always featured people's sightings, including locations and comments. As far as I know there haven't been incidents in the past. It's only the map feature (and snazzier new layout) that's new.

As co-founder of CW, I have to point out that not one, but two of the owners of the site are members, shown here. We strive to report the best celebrity gossip and the most accurate.

Again, it's all fun and games until it's you. Or a friend, an SG.

i guess i wasnt clear. thats not my point. i think my point is that people in that group are a little biased towards the nature of celebrity. i am not of the opinion that just because you have attained celebrity status you give up your right to basic privacy.

this is a new invasive plateau of celebrity gawking. and it makes me feel badly that its happening. bad for the celebrities, bad for the people who are doing it.

I generally could give a fuck. Once in a while I've gone as far as to say hello to a celeb (usually the type of "celebrity" I'm into, for example Jim Carroll and Jonathan Richman). These people don't mean all that much to my life. I say hello, sometimes shake their hand. Then I leave them the fuck alone. Michael Jackson I just rolled my eyes at as I walked towards the store exit (they were clearing the store for him).

Penn and Teller were much cooler than I expected. Perhaps because I politely asked permission before snapping a photo or two. And that really wasn't taken because "Let's prove I met two celebrities!", it was more because it was just something else odd that happened when I went to see a 300 lb naked Elvis impersonator perform.

What's always fun to me is when you run into an almost-celebrity who seems to expect you to fawn over them and looks out-of-sorts when you're indifferent towards them. Of course, this tends to happen most with local radio DJs.


[Edited on Mar 17, 2006 11:53PM]

I've had a couple of people who were being stalked ask me to tag along with them at school or in public because they felt unsafe. Stalking is just wrong. Having an interest in someone is fine, but there are lines and limits, and reporting on someone's location is compromising their privacy and their safety.

Click the link. It's not what you think. The most recent sighting are always a couple of hours old. There's no "GPS coordinates."

[Edited on Mar 19, 2006 by PointBlank]

-really? no way!
Dave