Cheers!
Posted on 08/06/2011 1:27:51 PM PDT by decimon
Ping
Then you better be wearing shades.
Here’s an idea, how about deleting your facebook account and not telling the world where you’re going this evening and what you’re wearing. It wouldn’t hurt to turn off your cellphone gps so the stalker doesn’t know where you are. When people put out so much personal information, they’re only making matters worse.
You flame? ;-)
Here’s an idea, how about deleting your facebook account and not telling the world where you’re going this evening and what you’re wearing. It wouldn’t hurt to turn off your cellphone gps so the stalker doesn’t know where you are. When people put out so much personal information, they’re only making matters worse.
I agree. Maybe Facebook makes people feel like celebrities.
For an organization that attempted to legalize pedophilia, I have trouble taking them seriously on other issues.
Cheers!
Hey, you opened my webcam. The shades warning was there to protect your eyes from my most awesome hotness!
It amazes me how even the not so young are constantly tweeting and texting 24/7 with every little thought or movement they make. Truth be told, there should probably be more stalkers out there but they’re too busy tweeting about their own miserable non-interesting lives.
I don't see that anywhere. Have you a citation?
Sorry for you. I am sitting here in my underwear.
Agreed. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand the technology and what it can do, what their legal rights are, etc.
For example, everything we post here at FR is recorded. ;)
States have begun to address the use of computer equipment for stalking purposes by including provisions prohibiting such activity in both harassment and anti-stalking legislation. A handful of states, such as Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire and New York have specifically including prohibitions against harassing electronic, computer or e-mail communications in their harassment legislation.
Also, some states have both stalking and harassment statutes that criminalize threatening and unwanted electronic communications.
Many states may already address this issue by making it a crime to communicate by any means with the intent to harass or alarm the victim. I would say repeated unwanted messages or emails falls into this harassment category, especially if you ask someone to stop contacting you electronically, or by any means, and they do not.
“For an organization that attempted to legalize pedophilia...
I don’t see that anywhere. Have you a citation?”
Understandable, considering that the MSM keeps it embargoed.
http://pedophileophobia.com/disorder.htm
“In a step critics charge could result in decriminalizing...”
IOW, they did not call for legalization.
““In a step critics charge could result in decriminalizing...””
“IOW, they did not call for legalization.”
Close enough for me. Sorry if I got into a sensitive area.
That's grade school level.
“That’s grade school level.”
Grade school, ehhh.
Having been stalked, I call bull excrement. How in the world is having nasty grams left on your facebook page, or even threatening text messages worse than harassing phone calls, or having waking up to find someone staring at you?
Electronic harassment may be disturbing, but electronic devices can be turned off. Being physically stalked means you must be constantly aware of your surroundings, and must plan each move to make sure it won’t put yourself in danger. It means losing the freedom to do what you want, when you want. It means having to evaluate everyone around you to determine if they’re the stalker. It means going to sleep at night wondering what might happen after you close your eyes. It means having to consciously not have habits or patterns of behavior that could be exploited. It means always having to listen for odd noises, and when heard having to evaluate what the noise might be. It means not knowing when you’re going to turn a corner in the grocery store, look up from the gas pump, or glance out the window and find yourself in the sites of your stalker. It means “home” isn’t safe anymore, to say nothing of your yard or neighborhood or car.
Upsetting messages on electronic devices? Oh, please.
It may be that most physical stalking is not as dramatic as your experience. Guess that depends on what is considered stalking.
[e]motional responses to the stress and trauma...includ[ing] high levels of ongoing stress, anxiety, fear, nightmares, shock and disbelief, helplessness, hyper-vigilance, changes in eating, and sleeping difficulties
strikes me as hyper-sensitive, especially when the article says people are most troubled when the "attacks" are anonymous. People being nasty in a blog can cause hyper-vigilance? Really? That's pathetic. How are these people dealing with the normal conflicts that are part life if some unknown person saying something mean about them on-line throws them into such distress?
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