I;ve got a nemesis
on Metafilter. I was a tiny bit snarky in one reply and I got a tirade of personal abuse.However, the snivelling little shit didnt quite expect me to uncover pretty much his entire life in 10 minutes via google, and Lexis Nexis. I mailed him back with the name of his kids, their birthdays, their address, the intimate details of his divorce, the name of his ex wife - her new boyfriend (plus some choice pictures comparing him to the new boyfriend and how she obviously upgraded after she got all his cash), his place of work, his mobile number, his address, his boss, his linked in profile with the names of numbers of all the people he ever worked for, his cell number (facebook!) and a precis of his hobbies and interests, with a time line of the last 6 months, oh and a link to a url to the google street picture of his front door. It was beautiful until i realised I had maybe, just maybe, got a little obsessed. But the whole thing took under an hour. He replied with "WTF!!" and never called back. I noticed a couple of weeks later he's taken a lot of info down where he can. I'm thinking of doing this as a business and present random strangers/people with dossiers of their life, all from collected info online. Its truly terrifying what you can find.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:34, Reply)