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Here are some good resources about the law and cyber-stalking. I will never understand why people stalk.

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Ptarmigan wrote:Here are some good resources about the law and cyber-stalking. I will never understand why people stalk.

Different reasons -- some stalk in order to seek revenge on someone who wronged them (or they think wronged them), some stalk because they are fixated on a particular person, and some stalk because they are fixated on a particular cause. There are different levels of obsession. The easiest to study are those who are obsessed with celebrities and those who suffer from erotomania (de Clerambault's Syndrome).

Usually it all boils down to psychological and emotional issues.

GalvestonDuck wrote:

Ptarmigan wrote:Here are some good resources about the law and cyber-stalking. I will never understand why people stalk.

Different reasons -- some stalk in order to seek revenge on someone who wronged them (or they think wronged them), some stalk because they are fixated on a particular person, and some stalk because they are fixated on a particular cause. There are different levels of obsession. The easiest to study are those who are obsessed with celebrities and those who suffer from erotomania (de Clerambault's Syndrome).

Usually it all boils down to psychological and emotional issues.

True. Sure explains a lot. Some take their obessession way too seriously.

Ptarmigan wrote:

GalvestonDuck wrote:

Ptarmigan wrote:Here are some good resources about the law and cyber-stalking. I will never understand why people stalk.

Different reasons -- some stalk in order to seek revenge on someone who wronged them (or they think wronged them), some stalk because they are fixated on a particular person, and some stalk because they are fixated on a particular cause. There are different levels of obsession. The easiest to study are those who are obsessed with celebrities and those who suffer from erotomania (de Clerambault's Syndrome).

Usually it all boils down to psychological and emotional issues.

True. Sure explains a lot. Some take their obessession way too seriously.

*snicker* That's what makes it an obsession.

Cyber stalking is akin to hardcore pornography sites, and online child exploitation; you'll never completely eliminate it (the Web is just too damn large, and complex), you can only hope to keep it down to a minimum.