I have received several stories this week on what other things are going on or have gone on to other people online. I am going to (w/ permission) start printing some of the stories of these others bloggers. If you have something to share, email me directly and Ill be happy to share it (with or without credit). The best way we can fight against it is to expose it. Here is one bloggers story of cyber-harassment:
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I saw your post this AM about internet stalkers & wanted to say, while yep, I have NO idea whats going on, or this airport incident people are talking about ( I started to search for it then was like, wth?)
However, I do know what its like to really see another side of people & the internet! Someone I thought for a long time was my friend (on-line) I could have pressed charges against for harassment ( threatening myself & my CHILD of all things gross to do) with someone else via my phone & internet, defaming me all because a group of moms got bored & went on a “troll hunt” on a baby message board!
When I first found blogging ( on myspace of all things) I had a private blog, my sister in law used my computer, opened my Myspace & PRINTED my private blog about her awfully witchy grandmother & gave it to her. This sister in law also created a fake “person” online to attempt to break up my marriage online, to insult me & all around wreck our family. She didnt, but my DH & her havent spoken in 3 years & she isnt welcome in my home, or to ever see my children after things got taken too far. Needless to say, from someone who thought message boards & the “internet life” died at age 14 & then who came back into it clueless, I’ve seen & felt alot of what your going through, perhaps on a smaller level, but as family was involved, a very personal level as well.
I cannot fathom how one’s own family member could be so cruel. Despite my love/hate relationship with certain members of my family, I could never go so far as to try to break up one of their homes!
And what is worse is that these are grown-ups doing acting this way. Seriously, way to be a role model for your child! *rolls eyes*
A good friend of mine has a psycho SIL, too. The things some people will do to attack someone they dislike/are jealous of never ceases to amaze me. This woman called our employer posing as DCYF. Too bad for her, I was the one who picked up the phone and was savvy to her crude attempt to cause trouble. ( She was making statements no one in that organization would make ) DCYF was questioned about it… they never called, nor did they have any interest in her family… but they did have a file on the SIL. Ironic isn’t it.
Wow how awful. It’s sad how people can be but it’s even worse when it’s “family”
I heard this on Tough Love (yes I watch it, i love train wreck “reality TV”)
Jealousy is a disease, get well soon!
I loved it and have been saying it to myself all day. it seems to go nicely with this post.
When you get told to watch your back, it’s really sad that the one you have to guard against is a family member. I would guess that good ol’ sister-in-law is jealous of your life. How sad that people who hate their own life try so hard to ruin someone else’s life. I guess it’s right misery loves company.
How awful for that woman. I just can’t imagine being tormented like that by your own sister-in-law!
I still don’t get it. Don’t people stop acting that way once they’re about 20? Yeesh. I hate girls. This is why I hate women (not individually, just in groups). And often, women hate me, but I chalk that up to jealousy. (I don’t know what they’d be jealous of, but it helps me sleep at night.)