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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
If you want to make a fair comparison, you have to compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges.
If you are a client and your therapist drives by your house on a public road not accidentally but intentionally, I really hope you'd end therapy with them. The same applies to therapists. So, in this situation therapists and clients are also on the equal level, there is no contradiction and no hypocrisy here. Whether you are a client or a therapist, if you decide to check out where your therapist/client lives and if you do it more than once, it's officially considered stalking. It's not like people "choose" to put their houses out there for public view. All houses stay in public view unless you are rich enough to live in a secluded gated community. So, people don't really have an option to "hide" where they live. But they do have a choice of making their personal information public online and they do have a choice of how much they want to put for a public view. So, the rules are the same for therapists and clients. Googling is ok for both, stalking is not ok for both, so I don't see any hypocrisy here.
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I don't agree at all that it is applies and oranges. They are both public places that one party chooses to come close to. A therapist has to make the effort to seek out the client's Facebook profile in the same manner that a client makes an effort to drive by their residence. I think these are similar scenarios.
A person's choices to use Facebook can be as limited as where they choose to live-if they wish to use all of Facebook's features and use the social media as it was intended, and likely as they did before they entered therapy, they have no choice but to make public disclosures. And people can buy a house that is secluded either surrounded by trees, far back from the road, or they can choose to have no windows that can looked through.
There's nothing unusual about people disagreeing, i just happen to think this is ridiculous. How would a person even know it's the therapist's boundary that they will terminate the therapy if you drive by their house? I know I'd be a little freaked out if a therapist drove by my house purposely, but all the same for most therapists overly interested in me in other ways. It's interesting; almost in an entertaining way; just speaking as someone not caught up in any of this stuff IRL and so have no stake in this.