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SS15 and twitter

evilstepmotherJ's picture

I'm always blogging about my SD19 but I also have a SS15 who we don't see or hear from aside from the pre-birthday and pre-christmas text. When I first married DH 4 years ago SS lived with us but he hated rules and chores and went to visit his BM one summer and just never came back. He has not come to visit in over a year and we hear he hates DH. Its a shame because the kids seems to have forgotten all the good times we had (and there were many). He doesn't even know we built a house or anything about us except I'm assuming what SD19 has told him. He's hugely passive aggressive but then again, all of DH's family is that way - and because he didn't talk with DH when he wanted to move to his moms and never faced the "issue", I truly believe it is now too uncomfortable for him to come and visit. Fine by me, snicker.........

anyway, I have had an anonymous twitter account for about a year now, I use it to vent as well as for fitness related stuff so imagine my surprise when I got a new follower this morning, it is SS15. There is no way he can know it's me, I even set it up that you cannot search me by email address (not that he even has that) but I also have no personal photos up at all. Told DH this morning and we checked out SS's twitter, looks like he just set it up and is now following a few of my "friends" (people I don't know). I quickly went through my various posts and everything is so vague I could easily deny it is me but now I wonder, just how did this kid open a twitter and I am the first one he's following?

Of course, the evil side of me is thinking of fake tweets to get him going if he even assumes its me, this could be fun }:) DH had to completely gross me out though....because I use it mostly for fitness I have a photo of my legs on there. DH said he probably saw those legs and say "whoa i'll follow her" not realizing i'm his stepmother.......BLECH.

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DaizyDuke's picture

I guess it probably wouldn't be hard. Does your SD19 follow you? Do any family members follow you? In the past when I have stalked people, it's usually pretty easy to figure out who someone (who is trying to be anon) is by seeing who they are friends with or who is following them or who they are following.

Odd though the he would even give a hoot about what you might be tweeting about? when SD15 moved back with BM last year, I just assumed that she could care less about me, we really don't have any type of relationship, have never been "friends" on FB or anything like that. So imagine my surprise when stalking her Twitter one day, I see a picture that she posted of MY dog that she had gotten off of my FB page. First off, she had never even seen the dog as we got him AFTER she moved out and second just wtf? My FB is the only place she could have gotten it, because she wasn't talking to DH at the time, and also the picture was taken with our camera, not on a phone, and uploaded to the computer so it couldn't have been sent to her by DH (if they were talking and I didn't know it) So apparently, SD15 was stalking my FB. Whatever I could care less about that, nothing for her to see... what bothered me though was her stealing my pic? Who does that? I promptly blocked her and solved that problem.

evilstepmotherJ's picture

I absolutely hate when people steal my photos, there is no reason for it, especially the few times they did and them claimed them as their own. I do my very best to keep things as private as possible on Fb - my block list is longer than 10 pages ha ha.

kathc's picture

That's just way too coincidental that he'd open an account and you'd be the first person he'd follow and he doesn't know it's you. There must be some way he figured out that's your twitter.

As for your DH's comment. OK, possible. VERY unlikely but possible. I mean, there's so many boobs and stuff out there that why would he "just happen" across the pic of your legs?

evilstepmotherJ's picture

I have no one on my list that he even knows, they are all strangers to me and everyone else in my family. BUT when I did first set up my twitter account, it showed me friends i might know and two of those people I did know but did not "follow" them. So I wonder, if when you first sign up, does twitter see your email address and suggest friends based on that? I am truly stumped as I have no idea how he would even think to follow me. I would not have even been sure it was him but he is following one of SD's BFF's and of course, he is using his name. I don't know much about Twitter but if I block him does that mean I cease to exist on there to him, similar to the way FB block works? For now I am trying to think of devious posts to put up to make him sit up and think, something about having a baby, winning the lottery, etc.

Anyone with knowledge of twitter, please comment, maybe I am missing something here.

evilstepmotherJ's picture

Well, that stinks. I guess I can mark it private if things get out of hand but for now i think i'll do a little stalking of my own Wink