I have recently been accused of leading someone on.. but I didn't. Everyone that knows me knows that I tell things straight, I don't wind people up. This person took what I said in a completely different way, and even posted an email I sent into a chatroom to embarrass me and to try and upset my other half, not knowing that we have access to each others accounts and email, and we read both all the time. It didn't work, and even though my other half had to talk to him personally to tell him to back off, it took a while for the penny to drop. He had been phoning (silly me for giving him my number, but even my other half thought he was ok as he had met him.) He had been emailing me and texting all the time... was starting to worry me...
Has anyone else on here been stalked, or fallen prey to stalker-ish people.. How did you deal with it? I would be interested to find out. I won't name and shame, but it really has put the willies up me.. no funny comments please... oh.. go one then!
If you don't want to post.. pm please xx thanks xx
not got anything constructive to add MissK, but poor u, it muct be so scary xxx
If he's being shirty, report it to admin.
Having a stalker in RL who over a period of months follows you around town and knows your routine.....down to when you go to the bank....where you park etc.....and approaches you when you have the kids in tow......that's perturbing!
But as Meaty said, take sensible precautions and when the weirdos crawl out of the woodwork, they shouldn't pose a threat.
The only thing I would say MissKitty, is that from the nature of your posts, you come across as a very open person and you seem to be happy sharing all sorts of details about your life. Whilst that's great, if you want to be that open, maybe you'll have to be a bit more guarded in future to avoid these kind of situations. Not that I am saying you have led the person on, just be a bit wary.
Failing that, as Winchy said, report anything untoward and use your 'ignore' button for PMs.
Hope it works out.
in chat MIss K if you report it to a mod, along with the time I ma sure they can read back on the chat including I think possibly the whispers too (but im not sure about the whiuspers bit, a mod will probably know better)
Not really the same but.......
I went through a stage that whenever I posted here the same member would post a reply. The reply would always be disagree with me and be dismissive of my views or comments. So what? The first couple of times I thought we just didn't think alike but it went on for some time and I considered not posting again. I didn't feel I could complain as it would sound just a bit pathetic. In the end I came to believe I wasn't been stalked just a mild piece of bullying.
Help I've picked up a stalker.
Think she just wants me for my body.
Shit come and take it but be gentle
theres 12of you :shock: :shock:
First of all, thanks everyone for your comments, it is a very difficult situation. I was totally honest about my situation and what I wanted, and I would have liked a meet with them eventually. But I was getting texts every hour, when I went into chatrooms I got whispered straight away, and then when I got the phone call it worried me. There is showing that your interested.. and then being overly pushy.. A lot more happened which I won't go into here, but it really did concern me, and my other half.
Haven't seen this person about today, and I hope I don't bump into them.. they probably are a really nice person, but not for me...
If anything else happens, I will contact the mods and let them know. It has happened once before since I have been on the site, and a quiet word from my other half sorted that one, although I contacted a mod, and they were willing to help if things got a bit much.
Maybe I used the wrong word, saying stalker.. but I really did feel vunerable at the time and it seemed to describe what was going on.
thats very true frex.....
I fancied someone, pre SH, and was on msn all the time for ages. chatting and flirting with them......then the novelty wore of and now its a pain in the arse to speak to them....and i just find them pushy and annoying now.
In a previous life when I went into chat rooms I had a stalker who was totally malicious. No idea why I was the target but whenever I was in a chat room chatting with friends this guy would turn up. Him and his friends would clone my user name and make up totally false and obscene profiles for me complete with carefully edited photos. I was a whore who worked for loose change etc etc and this attention was relentless. You can say that this was all typed and online and therefore not harmful but you would be wrong. It was very hurtful and completely ruined my enjoyment of chatting. How did I deal with it? Some friends and I turned detective and started to track this person in an effort to find out their ISP etc and once we found this out and confronted the person they began to back off, especially when the Police were mentioned.
It only really stopped when the user rooms closed down, but I have every sympathy with anyone who is having unwanted attention from someone on line because it IS real and it IS painful and harmful and don't let anyone tell you any different.
I got involved with a married woman about 20 years ago. The stalking didn't really start until after we hit it off. So I wasn't prepared for it and didn't realise what was happening until some time into the affair.
Anyway as soon as we'd begun sex she was on the phone several times a day. She wrote letters, did a few loopy things to get my attention.
Looking back on it all now, I can see that she had all the credentials for being a stalker, but probably didn't realise it herself. About a year later I had to devise a long term plan to dump her. And it took another year to do that. She was just so persistant and wouldn't accept that we were going nowhere.