Women Are Natural-Born Stalkers, and That Can Be a Good Thing [View all]

Great read guys, and an unimpeachable source that gets quoted here often. I wonder if there is a corollary behavior in men? Thoughts?

http://jezebel.com/women-are-natural-born-stalkers-and-that-can-be-a-good-498786986

"When you become romantically interested in a guy you just met what's the first thing you do? Google him. Find him on Facebook. You gather intel (a series of photos in which he's seemingly very familiar with a pretty young woman?) which you then analyze (oh, OK, she's just his sister) to create a composite of his life (seems like he's very into "family&quot that you believe will lead you to have a better understanding of him as a person (yep, he wants children). Most women do some version of this in varying degrees—not because they're psychos, but because they're smart. In fact, if women weren't so good at stalking, we never would've caught Osama bin Laden.

Not to be all gender essentialist about it, but there's something about borderline-obsessive curiosity that is more in line with the personality traits of women. Maybe it's a result of being raised in a world with implicit biases regarding our behavior as females. Generally considered as physically weaker, it only makes sense that we would develop our strength through social acumen and find power in trading information."