Definition and different types
Cyber stalker/Creep--- Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, a group of...
Different types
Email stalking--- Unsolicited email is one of the most common forms of harassment, including hate, obscene, or threatening mail. Other forms of harassment include sending the victim viruses or high volumes of electronic junk mail (spamming).
Internet stalking---Stalkers can more comprehensively use the Internet in order to slander and endanger their victims. In such cases, the cyber stalking takes on a public, rather than a private, dimension
Computer stalking--- Whilst the first two categories of cyber stalking can “spill over” into real world interactions, the “distancing” quality of the cyber component of the interaction is, nevertheless, a defining feature of the interaction. If there is no movement into the real world, targets of the harassment are still able to buffer themselves from exposure to the stalker by avoiding parts of the Internet used by the stalker.
Delusional stalker: this one has a history of mental illness which may include schizophrenia or manic depression.
Harasser stalker: some stalker types like to be the center of attention and may have an attention-seeking personality disorder;
Love rats: These may not be stalkers in the strict sense of the word but they have many similar characteristics. Love rats surf the web with the intention of starting relationships and may have several simultaneous relationships
Troll: he Troll's purpose is to be given more credibility than (s)he deserves, and to suck people into useless, pointless, never-ending, emotionally-draining, ranting discussions full of verbal loops
Different types
Email stalking--- Unsolicited email is one of the most common forms of harassment, including hate, obscene, or threatening mail. Other forms of harassment include sending the victim viruses or high volumes of electronic junk mail (spamming).
Internet stalking---Stalkers can more comprehensively use the Internet in order to slander and endanger their victims. In such cases, the cyber stalking takes on a public, rather than a private, dimension
Computer stalking--- Whilst the first two categories of cyber stalking can “spill over” into real world interactions, the “distancing” quality of the cyber component of the interaction is, nevertheless, a defining feature of the interaction. If there is no movement into the real world, targets of the harassment are still able to buffer themselves from exposure to the stalker by avoiding parts of the Internet used by the stalker.
Delusional stalker: this one has a history of mental illness which may include schizophrenia or manic depression.
Harasser stalker: some stalker types like to be the center of attention and may have an attention-seeking personality disorder;
Love rats: These may not be stalkers in the strict sense of the word but they have many similar characteristics. Love rats surf the web with the intention of starting relationships and may have several simultaneous relationships
Troll: he Troll's purpose is to be given more credibility than (s)he deserves, and to suck people into useless, pointless, never-ending, emotionally-draining, ranting discussions full of verbal loops
By,Coliani Martinez
Taft High School
February, 21, 2013
Taft High School
February, 21, 2013