When personal touches become stalker moves

added to a WhatsApp group that included the hotel manager and other guests — on the off-chance she wanted to share her thoughts on the property, or perhaps suggest a get-together.

There have also been instances of hotel staff taking things too far with social media, presumably without the knowledge or consent of management. Like the writer who once asked the doorman for the wifi code, then went to her room to log in to Facebook, only to find she had a new friend request — from the aforementioned doorman.

The Telegraph reporter also shared his “disturbing” experience, of finding about six giant pictures of himself put up around his hotel room. “In each example,” he wrote, “my head had been transplanted onto someone else’s body.”

The hotel’s “social media concierge” had taken the trouble to lift pictures of the guest off the Internet and graft them onto photographs relevant to the hotel’s location.

“There was me riding a camel, walking along the promenade, and surfing an enormous wave.”

Even though he thought the surfer’s chiselled body was a “significant upgrade on what I actually look like on a surfboard”, he was not amused.