This list compiles the best mobile and desktop apps for messing with people's lives. In an age where privacy laws are constantly changing, our technology is always evolving to assist us in interacting with others in new, exciting, and often times intrusive (and creepy) ways. With the advent of Twitter and Facebook, along with the boom of social networking and mobile communication, there are so many new ways to share content online. However, with the use of geolocation services like cree.py and quick messaging apps like Snapchat, the concept of privacy and the lack there-of has opened the door to many scenarios in which people can be messed with online and in person. Doesn't that sound fun?!
So, what are the best apps for messing with someone's life? Included in this list are the likes of Lulu and The Playbook, along with mobile apps banned by Apple, including Girls Around Me and The Situationist.
Hey stalker, get to stalking!
The Best Apps for Messing With Someone's Life,
Snapchat
This content messaging app that allows you to send a timed image/video/text to a friend is quite popular with the kids... and pedophiles. But hey, that time limit will surely stop anyone from sharing your pee pee pics with the world. Everything is safe here. Trust me. Signed, The Internet.
Lulu
Women, why use The Playbook when you've got Lulu? It's the "first ever app for girls!" At least, that's what the Lulu website says. This crowd-sourced app allows ladies to rate their male Facebook friends using #hashtags and then gives the option to share the info with friends – meanwhile, the guys have no clue this is happening. (Er, invasion of privacy much?) The website states they will "never post to Facebook." Hey, remember when your mother added you as a friend? Yeah, the possibilities are horrifying!
Situationist
Banned by The Apple Store due to the app's unauthorized method in using location services, The Situationist advertised itself by saying it "Creates Extra-Ordinary Situations In Your Everyday Life." Cool! Who wants to be ordinary anyway? Alas, what the app really did was offer other Situationist members in the same area the opportunity to interact with each other by doing fun, weird, or intrusive things. All members had to do is upload their photo and what they want the strangers to come up and do to them. The app was moderated to keep the creeps away, but creeps are crafty.
Background Check by BeenVerified
Are you a stalker? Do you want to stalk people... for free? Well, look no further than the BeenVerified app, which allows anyone to run free background checks on, well, anyone else! Never let a stranger be a stranger again! Not only does this app offer free background checks, it also offers up the social networking information for your new friend. Hell, why hit on that girl across the bar if you can surprise her at home at some late romantic hour instead? Brilliant! Let the stalking commence!
Find My Friends
Not long ago, I discovered the Find My Friends app on my iPhone. It's another one of those fancy geolocating features but to use it, you need to invite your friends to connect with you. Let's say you want to get revenge on your recent ex whom you still have in your phone. Simply Find That (Ex) Friend on your iOS device and then drive on down and poop on her car while she's getting drinks with that one guy from the office who is just a friend. You hear that, Dan?! I'm onto you... err... I mean... uh...
StealthGenie
"Want to spy on any phone within the next 5 minutes?" asks the StealthGenie website. I guess the answer is, "duh!" That's right, this is apparently the world's most popular mobile phone spy software. StealthGenie is an incognito app that you can download onto the mobile device you want tracked and the owner of said phone WILL NEVER KNOW! With this app, you'll be able to do a wide assortment of James Bondian (?) things like spy on calls, spy on instant messages, snoop through emails, view GPS location, remotely access their computer, and so much more! If ever there was an app for messing with a person's life, this would be it!
Creepy
This geolocation desktop app makes tracking a person so easy, you don't have to ever leave the house. It works by pinpointing a user through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Instagram. All that is needed is the person's username on any of those sites and boom, Jack Bauer is on the case! So the next time you share a selfie online, remember, Big Brother is watching, and he's probably a creep.
Security Cam With Dropbox & Youtube Sync
This app has the privilege of being "THE ONLY PROFESSIONAL SECURITY APPLICATION APPROVED & USED BY REAL PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS!" So what are you waiting for, Magnum P.I.? Download this app and you can turn that camera on your iOS device into a secret security camera. Imagine all the crazy things you can do! Now all you have to do is hide it in that teddy bear by the T.V. Hulk Hogan won't know what hit him.
Badabing!
If you have yet to get your fill of creepy stalkerish apps, here's another one to add to your roster (phone). Badabing! offers you one simple service: to crawl your friends' Facebook profiles for their scantily clad beach and/or pool photos. It's like being a Peeping Tom but never having to climb a tree, or leave the house, or put on pants, or be an upstanding human being. Of course, if the people posing on the beach in revealing bathing suits have a problem with this... STOP POSTING THESE PICTURES TO THE INTERNET!
NameTag
Coming to Google Glass in the near future, NameTag lets you step right into a Philip K Dick story (not really). NameTag will work by letting you (the stalker) profile the face of a friend (stranger) and then cross reference the facial features with social media networks to identify who they are. If everything goes according to plan, this intrusive software will also be coming to smart phones in the near future. Who needs human interaction anyway? "Not me" said every reclusive serial killer everywhere!