Why Cyber stalkers
Social Media Stalker
Cyber stalkers motivation:
1) Sexual Harassment: This should not surprise anyone, especially women, since sexual harassment is also a very common experience offline. The internet reflects real life and consists of real people. It's not a separate or a regulated world. The very nature of anonymous communications also makes it easier to be a stalker on the internet than a stalker offline.
2) Obsession for love: This could begin from an online romance, where one person halts the romance and the rejected lover cannot accept the end of the relationship. It could also be an online romance that moves to real life, only to break-up once the persons really meet. Sometimes, this obsession stalking can even start from real life and then move over to cyberspace. One of the problems with obsession stalking is that since it often starts as real romance, much personal information is shared between persons involved. This makes it easy for the cyber stalker to harass their victim. Some users online enjoy "breaking hearts" as a pastime, and so may well set up obsessions for their own enjoyment - games that they may later regret having played.
3) Revenge and Hate: This could be an argument that has gone out of hand, leading eventually to a hate and revenge relationship. Revenge vendettas are often the result of something you may have said or done online which may have offended someone. Vendettas often begin with arguments where you may have been rude to another user. Sometimes, hate cyber stalking is for no reason at all (out of the blue)- you will not know why you have been targeted nor what you have done, and you may not even know who it is who is doing this to you & even the cyber stalker does not know you.
4) Ego and Power Trips: These are harassers or stalkers online showing off their skills to themselves and their friends. They do not have any grudge against you - they are rather using you to 'show-off’ their power to their friends or doing it just for fun and you have been unlucky enough to have been chosen. Most people who receive threats online imagine their harasser to be large and powerful. But in fact the threat may come from a child who does not really have any means of carrying out the physical threats made.
Statistics: back in 2000 the majority of harassers were male - 68% . A bit of an increase in 2010 of gangs or husband/wife teams being the harassers at 3%. the primary target group was ages 18 to 30, showing a 6% increase, while the next largest victim age group of 41+ showed a decrease from 2009 by 4.5%. The majority of victims were single (45.5%), followed by married (28.25%), divorced (11.5%), separated (4.25%) or life partners (2.5%) with the remaining 8% unknown. (66.5%) were Caucasian but they were down 3% from 2009; of all races in the study (Asian, African-American, Native American, East Indian) only the Hispanic victims showed an increase, of 2%, compared to 2009
47% of victims acknowledged a prior relationship with their harasser in 2010, compared to 61% in 2009. As expected, when the victim knew their harasser, 55% were primarily an ex or the wife/girlfriend of an ex (not boyfriend/husband, interestingly), followed by online acquaintance, work, friend/ex-friend, family, school
1) Sexual Harassment: This should not surprise anyone, especially women, since sexual harassment is also a very common experience offline. The internet reflects real life and consists of real people. It's not a separate or a regulated world. The very nature of anonymous communications also makes it easier to be a stalker on the internet than a stalker offline.
2) Obsession for love: This could begin from an online romance, where one person halts the romance and the rejected lover cannot accept the end of the relationship. It could also be an online romance that moves to real life, only to break-up once the persons really meet. Sometimes, this obsession stalking can even start from real life and then move over to cyberspace. One of the problems with obsession stalking is that since it often starts as real romance, much personal information is shared between persons involved. This makes it easy for the cyber stalker to harass their victim. Some users online enjoy "breaking hearts" as a pastime, and so may well set up obsessions for their own enjoyment - games that they may later regret having played.
3) Revenge and Hate: This could be an argument that has gone out of hand, leading eventually to a hate and revenge relationship. Revenge vendettas are often the result of something you may have said or done online which may have offended someone. Vendettas often begin with arguments where you may have been rude to another user. Sometimes, hate cyber stalking is for no reason at all (out of the blue)- you will not know why you have been targeted nor what you have done, and you may not even know who it is who is doing this to you & even the cyber stalker does not know you.
4) Ego and Power Trips: These are harassers or stalkers online showing off their skills to themselves and their friends. They do not have any grudge against you - they are rather using you to 'show-off’ their power to their friends or doing it just for fun and you have been unlucky enough to have been chosen. Most people who receive threats online imagine their harasser to be large and powerful. But in fact the threat may come from a child who does not really have any means of carrying out the physical threats made.
Statistics: back in 2000 the majority of harassers were male - 68% . A bit of an increase in 2010 of gangs or husband/wife teams being the harassers at 3%. the primary target group was ages 18 to 30, showing a 6% increase, while the next largest victim age group of 41+ showed a decrease from 2009 by 4.5%. The majority of victims were single (45.5%), followed by married (28.25%), divorced (11.5%), separated (4.25%) or life partners (2.5%) with the remaining 8% unknown. (66.5%) were Caucasian but they were down 3% from 2009; of all races in the study (Asian, African-American, Native American, East Indian) only the Hispanic victims showed an increase, of 2%, compared to 2009
47% of victims acknowledged a prior relationship with their harasser in 2010, compared to 61% in 2009. As expected, when the victim knew their harasser, 55% were primarily an ex or the wife/girlfriend of an ex (not boyfriend/husband, interestingly), followed by online acquaintance, work, friend/ex-friend, family, school
By, Coliani Martinez
Taft high school
february, 21, 2013
Taft high school
february, 21, 2013