What would you do if you were in this situation (details inside)
Suppose there is a forum you really like. You have a lot of friends there. People there like you and are generally nice to you.
Except there is a user who seems to like you a bit too much. They occasionally send you messages wanting to get close to you. Their messages are nothing threatening or creepy, just general greeting stuff. But they would include things that are a bit too… specific, like things you only say in passing on the forum or things only people who know you well on the forum know. It is clear to you that this user has been doing lots of research about you and have been reading your posts quite extensively. You don’t know how much they know about you, but you have a feeling they are constantly looking at your posts.
Would you feel uncomfortable? What would you do in this situation? Would you stop going to the forum? Would you just ignore the person and continue on the forum like nothing has happened? Or what else could you do?
I was reading a horror story and this is the main plot point of the story. I just think it would make a good discussion.
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I would not stop going to the forum. I would ignore the person and hope they back off. But they could become enraged and hunt you down. Or hunt down the people on the forum that you seem especially close to and kill them off. That way, you would have to be close to the stalker by default.
Good story line!
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I’d take it as a compliment myself, and not change a thing.
@chyna Okay that is creepy!
I don’t think I’d be worried about it because after-all if you posted everything in a public forum, pretty much everyone already has access to it anyway.
What would creep me out is if someone would start to post something that was not true about you and break the rules of the site in doing so.
I’ve been in a similar situation and it is both scary and creepy. But hopefully the problem has been solved for now.
Wow @janbb! That’s shivery!
@Mimishu1995 I think it’s a great basis/beginning for an entire book. I’d read it!
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It would creep me out.
I would stress over the meaning of such attention.
Could it be someone working for the government, researching for who might have “wrong” pursuits?
Could it be a serial rapist?
A snuff fetishist?
Maybe it is someone less threatening, but equally annoying, a market analyst, perfecting their ability to read a stranger’s likes.
Oh my!
What if it turned out to be a housebound person; young, with an adventurous spirit? What if that were the case, and they thought I seemed like a wonderful person to imagine about living in the world, experiencing things they never will?
Would finding out cause me to feel guilt over having such suspicious thoughts?
Should it?
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