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17th February 2019
10:00am GMT

According to research compiled by Vivastreet, Freeclimbing is the act of going deep (and we mean deep) on a person's social media who you plan to potentially date in the future.
Going deep on the lurk front may seem like a good idea at the time, but realistically you're going to end up coming across a post or a photo that you don't like.
It's in that way that the act can be a tad dodgy or, if you want to get dramatic about it, dangerous.
Talkto explains the origin of the trend's namesake, citing Freeclimbing as:
“The act of searching through a dating prospect’s social media accounts and going backward in their history. This is characteristically dangerous, just as free climbing is, hence the term.”
Makes sense.
Vivastreet decided to do a bit of their own research and figure out how many people are potentially being freeclimbed without knowing it.
Turns out, a good few.
They discovered that one in five people don't actually know whether their social media profiles are public.
As well as this, 30 percent of people are likely to do a bit of a stalk before dating someone, so it's absolutely worth knowing what you've got on display.
Happy freeclimbling.
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