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Cyberbullying on the Internet: Life on Line

by: gouurry( 703Feedback score is 500 to 999) Top 5000 Reviewer
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I haven't ever been a big fan of stalking. Nor have I ever been a fan of Cyber stalking or Cyber Bulling. Cyber Bulling and Cyber stalking have been around for a while, However are now is gaining local and national attention. Unfortunately the Internet provides the perfect cover for these types of individual who like threaten, stalk and harass people.  Individual who's sole purpose is to gain gratification from the distress caused by provoking pain and tormenting on individuals. Theses small minded types of people can be provoked by anything and anyone can fine themselves a target for whatever reason. Usual no special reason is needed. Do not consider yourself safe because you get along with everyone or if everyone likes you. These Cyber Bullies/Stalkers don't thinking is in an illogical manner as everyone else.  Cyber Stalkers / Bullies often get a preserve sense of self satisfaction and gratification from sending people flames in forums and in hate mail by email. Flaming email and flaming forums are design to enrage their targets and get a response. These hate e-mail usually a contains source a strong source of hatred, prejudice, jealous, racism etc, etc in forms of emails. Most often these type of people harbor a lot of internal aggression which it is directed at others. It usually include in projecting false criticism and patronizing sarcasm at their targets. Nothing they have to say contribute to nothing of any value. Sometime Cyber Bullies use forum to find other who agree with their odd sense of views and lead them to support their verbal attacks on a victims. In most of the cases this is a standard tactic used on me by a cyber bully. Group ego dianatic Vs the individual ego dianatic clashes. I've it seen on several forums as Cyber Bullies gather some of the most ignorant people to there cause that will increase the bullying on their respective targets.  In most case it's a fabrication or a distortion version of the truth as they see it. It's amazing who some Cyber Bullies can get their friends to go along with their perspective with of question even when their wrong. How and why? It goes a bit beyond then just being week winded person. The bad thing about it is that the cyber bullies and friend are usually doing it for entertainment.  
Cyber Bullies are those who like to create conflict, without cause or reason. Cyber bullies make statement that they know will provoke a response. Example: Attacks on an artist usually consist of "Your a tracer" or "Your art work sucks." Each person is different, but they try to hit you with something that they think will hurt your feelings that will provoke a response. And when one of the victims respond, then they will have there word distorted and used to further flame and enrage people to there cause.  This continues as these so called Cyber bullies sit back and gains self gratification from seeing others engage in destructive behavior towards each other or their target victim. The Cyber Stalkers also engage as well to continue you the conflict usually without end.
Most Cyber Bullies are also serial attention and glory seekers. More than anything else they want attention. It doesn't matter what type of attention they get, positive or negative, as long as they are at the center of it. It's similar to a two-year-old child throwing a tantrum to get attention from a parent. The best way to treat cyber bullies is to refuse to respond and refuse to engage them. For some reason they really hate this. Do not reply to their postings, and carry on posting without reference to their postings about you as if they don't exist. Also pay their emails no attention as well. In other words, treat nobodies as nobodies for they are waste of time. Why waste your time arguing with someone that has less then zero value to you.  This is hard to do since they like to post in places you do or people that has similar narrow view points like them or could just be them on multiple accounts.
It angers and enrages a Cyber Stalker / Bully especially when they come across someone who can see through them and can expose them for the weak, immature, aggressive person they are. All to often Cyber Bullies will boast about how strong individual they are. Strong individuals don't have to boast or brag.
The objectives of Cyber bullies are power, and control.  Or at least the illusion of having power and control that they lack offline due to there, friends, parents or just being weak individuals. They get a kick out of seeing you react. to their chaos and watching conflict unfold. It doesn't matter how you react, the fact they've successful caused a reaction is all they really care about. Small reaction leads to bigger ones like a chain reaction. Strong negative reaction provide and ensure long continuations of the flaming and battling. Responses equal successful attacks for a cyber stalker. Now it's a question of how long does it take to wearing you down. The more you try to explain, negotiate, the more gratification they obtain from your increasingly desperate attempts to communicate with them. Understand first that it is not possible to communicate in a mature adult manner with a unbalance individual who's emotionally deficient. It's not possible to communicate with a person that is emotional deficient and deprived. Cyber Bullies will distort every word you say and write. It's not possible to communicate with someone that lives for pure hate and conflict.
The first rule of engagement is do not respond. Don't interact or engage with Cyber Bullies even if you feel the need to. Their counting on you wanting to defend yourself.  Avoiding them isn't easy as it sounds when every fiber of your being is crying out t defend yourself. It's just natural response to want to defend yourself, and to put the person in their place. However, don't ever argue with a Cyber Bullies. It's not ever a mature adult conversation.  Cyber bullies may be an adult on the outside, however on the inside they are children with distorted logical and see what there doing as the right thing to do. Trap in their own fantasy world.
Keep all received hate mail. Save in the folder or on word pad program. Don't waste your time reading it especial if it's just going to make you anger.  Emails can be used as evidence against the stalker online. Some time hate mail can be used to get their provider to removed their account. But all to often the bullies get other account and start the emails again and again. The emails can also be used in courts of law if it is forced to come to that.
Comparing new emails to the old one to see if there coming from the same person. It usually is. Same word phrase and arguments are the first clue it's the same person. Cyber Bullied weapon of choose is mostly done on foams, email and popular sites. So save the links or copy and paste to your PC.

Understand Cyber bullying and recognize that you are not dealing with a rational person like yourself. This person (male or female) is far from normal. Bullying, and especially Cyber Bullying, has links to real life stalking and all to often stalking is the next step increase aggressive violent acts.
Get help now. If you're a young male or female then this is very important. Even adults often cannot handle bullying and harassment by themselves because it's an issue that has no quick solution and law enforcement is slow acting unless a crime has been committed. Even though stalking is against the law in some states and other countries. What is important to remember is that most of the time you are dealing with a disordered and dangerous individual or individuals and should reframe form making contact.
Beware when you are being provoked because all to often you are being baited by the aggressor. Comments that are being made for you to respond and irritate you. The comment and attack usually continue until they get a response. The step to avoiding the trap is nothing of it's existence. What I find most interests is the sense of gratification and pure preserves pleasure attacker or attackers get from their misguided deeds. All to often many types of these disturb individuals will be receive praise for these types of actions by friends or less individuals. Usually I see a lot of cyber bulling groups together on line online now. It's a popular thing to do on forums and similar site like my space. A lot of these individuals are full of hate and rage. They seem to love the destructive interaction initiated on smaller groups or individual. All to often it is done because they have nothing better to do or spend there time.
Observation is the key. Even if you are under attack by a cyber bully then you should learn how to remove yourself from the conflict. Step out of the lines of sight and in to the shadow. Study the so called perpetrator nature and collect evidence.  Cyber Bullies project their own weaknesses, failings, jealous and shortcomings on to others. Some even keep public journals and blogs about themselves telling of their active. Wishing praise for their every day activity. All to Often Cyber bullies are looking for something to fill that void.
        Train yourself not to be control by anger but by a purpose. Removing yourself and you training yourself to act as an observer and not a person that just want to strike back is the most important step. Do not become and evil heart of hate. This takes you out of the firing sight and off the front-line and enables you to study the perpetrator natures and collect evidence. When people use bullying behaviors they project their own weaknesses, failings, jealous and shortcomings on to others it attempt to free themselves from it. However most of the it amplifies the negative thing about them. Then they will look for someone to reassure them that the complete waste.  Fabricating an issues indirectly based on something they themselves have done wrong. Find out what they are revealing about themselves. Know your enemy. All to often they are just fishing for info about you because they know nothing. How does someone make pages and pages or email and forum post about you when your haven't ever even spoke to them or met them? I don't know how but I seen it done.
Deciding if you want to take action, however not just simple lashing out with words or fist will always do.  Prepare carefully and strike back. Sometimes refusing to respond will result in the cyber bully losing interest and going off to find someone easier to torment and attack. Sometimes the cyber bully is so obsessed that she cannot and will not let go. You will have to make that person let go, but only through swift, hard, legal action, and only when the time is right. Don't deal with the abuser yourself for this encourages bullies and stalkers. Use a third party such as a the law. This is mad harder if you don't know who the person is offline or they are from another country. IP address can reveal this info but IP address can be easy changed or blocked.
Don't ever try to mediate, negotiate or deal with a bully or stalker yourself.  Don't respond, don't interact and don't engage. Don't add to the problem for it is usually like adding fuel to a fire.
Bully Online and Cyber Bully ORG and Cyber stalker Net are good site for information on bullying which identifies the different types of harassment and harasser and profiling them.  Revealing the systematic principal of perpetrator nature, actions and behavior of Cyber bullies is a great help in.  This is a serious issue that need serious awareness before it happens to you or someone you care about. Cyber bullies are commonly sociopathic individuals such as, harassers, stalkers, rapists, violent partners, abusers, pedophiles, even serial killers.
If bullying stalking and harassment have caused injury to health, or stress then seek a Doctors help. Also consult with a lawyer and your local authorities to learn about legal actions you can talk. Stop the harassment now while you still can. You are not alone.


Cyber Stalking
Cyber stalking is the next level of cyber bulling. So closely related it's hard to tell the difference. This take place often before have engage the Cyber bullies. But it can also take place after you stopped engaging the Cyber bully. When are no longer adding fuel to the fire they only thing left for them to do is stalk and watch you. They search and find every place where you are at online by searching for your screen name and watching you for activity so they mat engage you in conflict once more. It could be for the sole purpose to learn something about you or to continue to harass you.
Cyber Stalking doesn't need a reason to accrue. However it's usually cyber bulling taken to the next level of engagement. This is in a vain attempt to get you to reengage them. Targeting victims through chat rooms, message boards, discussion forums, instant message and e-mail. Cyber Stalking takes many forms such as: threatening or obscene e-mail, spamming in which a stalker sends a victim a multitude of junk e-mail which sometime seek personal information. Flaming (online verbal abuse); leaving improper messages on forums. Sending electronic viruses; sending unsolicited email, tracing another person's computer and Internet activity, and electronic identity theft. But mainly it is to keep tabs on what you are doing and when you are doing it. A constant watching. Recently I have had it happen to me by two individual. One person seemed to be angry that my sales were higher then his. That was a real stupid reason. But it didn't stop there, then the email started weekly, then daily, then hourly. He also decide to contact customers that were current and others on my feed back history. Luckly no one paid him any mind. One person told me he came off sounding jealous. He had no proof or tracing and he hasn't ever bought anything from you. The buyer told me that he was email so much by him that he had to block his email. That's reasone alone to keep feedback private.  I found out that the ebay account wasn't even owned by him but his dad. I contacted his dad and directed him toward his child emails. Once the dad read the emails he told me he would deal with it and I would not be contacted again, The seller disappear and harassment stopped. Over all I was just got lucky and do not advice people to take that course of action because it's not always a child and you can't get in contact with someone's parents easy as I did.

  Currently I'm dealing with a new stalker which is a  heart of hate .  He/She has way to much time one her hands if she has time to write on six different site daily about me and loop them in a  search engine. She attacked me online over a month ago and while I thought it was over then I found out it was continuing. The Heart of hate is has been using googles to search for my online screen name to track my movent's online. The same is beeing attempted at sites I post pictures and talk to people in an attempt to have me shut down for whatever reason she has created in her mind. It's all a bit loony for me. I consider thses action strange for a person I have not ever spoke to  except for the word "lol" and "leave me alone". Imagine what would happen if I actually talked to her. She posts her every action against me online for someone to praise her and tell her what a good job she is doing. She fits the cyber bully and stalker profile exactly. I read in a forum where she discussed causing bodily harm to me and direct other people to my website to harass me and attack me whenever they can. The he/she is a plain psycho nutter. She claims to be madly in love with her boyfriend, goes to art college and has a job as a Professional Comic Book artist. Where does she get the time to stalk people? I'm not the only one she is stalking, just the current person. Even now she is watching my listings on ebay whenever I post something. She is the first to add it to her watch list so she can report it. But like usually most of her report go unnoticed. Her name pops up on each item that I post. I'm using a handy program called "Watch Pro" to reveal watchers name and IP numbers. Watch Pro was made to reveal your ebay on line watcher. It's something that ebay should do but  they simply don't.  The lack of protection or concern on ebay is a bit disturbing buy it is something that all user must deal with it them selves.

Another type of persin you have to look out for is the stalker instigater. What made thing even worst is that a friend of the female stalker called soldier 1940 something like to instigate conflict What he will do is just seach for bad info on anyone he can find that involve in a conflict on a forum and direct people to it so they can join in the attack too.Ninty nine percent of the time he's not involve in the conflict but he inserts himself in it to make things worst.

Leasson one. If you don't want your movement on the net track use different names and change them constantly because you don't know who is watching. Because all to often these people do not have hearts of glitter. They have hearts of hate.
Do not post or email in forums. Change your email if you have to. Have one email for private use and another email for public use.  Don't use unique names that can ID you or be tracked to you. Have multiple profiles. It's a shame it has to come to this, but that's life and the nature of people today. And you best bet to disappear from stalkers online



Guide ID: 10000000004216951Guide created: 08/16/07 (updated 08/25/08)

 
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