We all do it. And anyone who says they don't is lying. I've been catching onto this whole Buzzfeed craze, and mentally writing a Buzzfeed article of my own in my head titled, "You know you're in the creative sequence when..." If I did, the number 1 situation would be 'you portfolio stalk more than you Facebook stalk.' One of my past campaign partners were meeting to discuss some ideas, and her computer was dead so she asked if she could borrow mine to look up her portfolio website and show me something, I was slightly reluctant because she had been the subject of some recent portfolio stalking, but obviously I couldn't say no without looking even more suspicious. I'm sure the autofill option in my internet browser did not go unnoticed when she started typing in her url only to find it was already there because I had been on her website literally the day before this meeting took place. At first I was slightly embarrassed but then I decided I didn't care because I realized if the situation had been reversed I wouldn't have minded at all. If anything it's flattering.
I'll never forget the day I was using a computer that belonged to someone else in the sequence with me and opening a new tab led to a window of their most visited sites, which consisted of at least three of our classmates. I was amused at first, but then relieved because I realized my search history was most likely very similar.
Moral of the story: portfolio stalk as much as you want. It doesn't matter and everyone else is doing it anyways.
