If you think your private life is private - you’re wrong, and I should know

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If you think your private life is private - you’re wrong, and I should know
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📱 Reformed digital stalker Sarah Carson used to revel in her power to unearth intimate details about people’s lives. Then the sleuthing got out of hand 🖋️ By carsonsarah

I’ve also uncovered how many votes their uncle got while running for the Liberal Democrats in a 2017 by-election, which of their sisters won in a tennis match in 2003 , degree of relation to Camilla Parker-Bowles, the prize they were given for coming first in a 2006 school science competition , and their secret life as a moderator of a now-defunct Miley Cyrus fan forum.

Another friend had a date lined up and we put it to the group chat: How fast can we find a 33-year-old graphic designer called Tom in east London? Well, very, actually, given this describes a quarter of the population of Hackney, you might as well just approach bearded men in the street. But we tracked down this particular Tom in record time. I sometimes marvel at what I would be able to uncover with more time and better resources than an unhinged imagination and incognito browsing.

There were other warning signs that my sleuthing was getting out of hand – after a few bad dating experiences in my twenties, it threatened to progress to straight-up stalking. Why, it started to dawn on me, did I really need to know? I was convinced to quit. When you know too much, you are robbed of your curiosity in conversation, you catch yourself out by revealing something you weren’t told, and you feel grubby after prying too long, or coming across something you wish you could forget.

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