Is it normal to stalk your crush on facebook

Send me Unwritten articles please! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here. You have entered an incorrect email address! Men and women both found this to be their first port of call when it came to snooping time. Hopefully, they erased their browser history.

But for those of you trying to hack accounts or track locations: Take a break from your smartphone. Visit Metro's Rush Hour Crush online every weekday at pm.

Perhaps, too easy. Or, at least read one. After years of falling into the Internet lurking trap and realizing the amount of mental agony and unnecessary anxiety it caused me, I found myself wondering how I could put an end to it all? Well, with the help of Los Angeles-based marriage and family therapist, Alan Dybner, I figured out exactly how.

Though it might feel weird to publicly admit, it really is common to stare at pictures of your crush and look at their social media. I know now that a lot of my previous snooping was exactly for those reasons. I got into a pattern of ending potential relationships before they even started, letting my one-sided feelings of jealousy, bitterness, and doubt overpower my initial feelings of hope and optimism.

Getting to know someone in person is always going to be better than through their Internet persona. Until then, more mastering of the art of self-control must be obtained. This isn't a case of "finders keepers. You always bring them up in conversation. Take a hint: Your girlfriends aren't saying "shut up" because they're in disbelief that [insert name] actually runs 10 miles every morning including Saturday post-bar shenanigans.

They are actually telling you to shut up. You jump at the chance to do anything that might include them. Volunteering on your only day off?

Going to that awkward work event that they'll also probably be at? Skipping out of work early to hit the gym when they're usually lifting? Okay, stop. You even look up their LinkedIn profile. How else are you supposed to know if they really work as an investment banker? Phew, their story checks out The jig is up. Game over.