1. Spending way too much time on a friend’s Facebook page. 2. Looking at photos and wall posts on strangers’ pages. 3. Watching someone's actions on Facebook instead of communicating with them. Almost every time I have dorm parent duty I ask the high school sophomores in my dorm about the latest Facebook trends. According to these girls, the hottest slang word right now is “creepin’,” which they define as a harmless version of online stalking. There is even a Facebook group called “Creeping” with over 180,000 fans as well as a recent entry in the Urban Dictionary. Apparently there is now a need to distinguish harmless obsessive perusal (creepin') of someone else's online information with malicious obsessive perusal (stalking). Is this a good thing? Are we realizing and accepting that it's okay to be heavily interested in our Facebook friends and to go through all their stuff online, or are we trying to justify being a little bit too curious? Either way, the next time you find yourself meandering through the profile pictures on a friend of a friend of a friend’s page, you know what to call it-- You’re creepin’.
Creepin’: (verb)
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