Clique-stalking is the act of surreptitiously investigating a person’s friends or social media connections.

Clique-stalking指偷偷调查某人的朋友或社交媒体人脉的行为。

Clique-stalking happens when you fall down the rabbit hole of clicking the names tagged in distant friends’ photos, then cross-checking for other mutual friends; when you Google a stranger because you always see her commenting on your ex-boyfriend’s friends’ Instagrams; when you see a Twitter handle you don’t recognize in an @-reply, then check who else he’s been talking to.

如果你沉迷于点击远方的朋友的照片里标记的人名，然后反复核对你们是否有其他共同好友；如果你因为看到一个陌生女性总是点评你前男友的朋友的Instagram照片，就开始用谷歌搜索这个陌生人；如果你看到@自己的回复中出现不认识的推特账号，就会查看他还在跟谁交流，你就正在Clique-stalking。