Stalking... is made so much easier via the internet.
December 20th 2007 04:33
The internet is by far the most incredible thing to have happened to humanity since the steam engine. I could praise it to death but I imagine you already know its benefits, so why bother? The internet however, can make it so much easier for persons with malevolent intentions to find what they're looking for- take the messenger services; some random adds you and says they're a 19 year old female from Fremantle, even if you don't believe this, you can't prove that it's a lie so you just go with it. Certainly you could block the person, but most of us seem willing to share with strangers providing they're not weird straight off the bat.
This seems all well and good but as usual, I have some not so sensational stories to share with you.
Person A added Daniel the Strange to their messenger service and they began talking. All seemed well until Person A exchanged Myspace URLs with Daniel the Strange and found that he claimed to be a paedophile. Person A confronted Daniel the Strange about this on MSN and he confirmed and bragged about it. Sick joke or truth, Person A promptly discontinued communication with this whack job.
Case 2 is a massive lump of minor cases because they're so common. Hands up who's been asked for nude photos of themselves online? Oh look, that's everyone! Where this variety of stranger comes from that adds randoms online and starts asking for such material is beyond me. I mean seriously, the Playboy Playmates get paid to take their gear off and you expect me to do it for free? Whatever. But seriously, you'd think there's enough porn floating around in cyber space for such persons to not need to request that you, I and my neighbour make our contributions.
While the internet may be crawling with creeps, it does come with 'block' and 'delete' features. Life however, does not.
I want you to try something; type the name of your place of work into a search engine and tell me if you can find your address. You can? Well how about taking it one step further and sending flowers to [your name] at the address during business hours? Yeah it's okay 'cause you know the flowers etc came from you, but what if you've got no clue who 'Dave' is? I sincerely hope this was just a hypothetical scenario for you because it wasn't for one of my Research Rodents.
This seems all well and good but as usual, I have some not so sensational stories to share with you.
Person A added Daniel the Strange to their messenger service and they began talking. All seemed well until Person A exchanged Myspace URLs with Daniel the Strange and found that he claimed to be a paedophile. Person A confronted Daniel the Strange about this on MSN and he confirmed and bragged about it. Sick joke or truth, Person A promptly discontinued communication with this whack job.
Case 2 is a massive lump of minor cases because they're so common. Hands up who's been asked for nude photos of themselves online? Oh look, that's everyone! Where this variety of stranger comes from that adds randoms online and starts asking for such material is beyond me. I mean seriously, the Playboy Playmates get paid to take their gear off and you expect me to do it for free? Whatever. But seriously, you'd think there's enough porn floating around in cyber space for such persons to not need to request that you, I and my neighbour make our contributions.
While the internet may be crawling with creeps, it does come with 'block' and 'delete' features. Life however, does not.
I want you to try something; type the name of your place of work into a search engine and tell me if you can find your address. You can? Well how about taking it one step further and sending flowers to [your name] at the address during business hours? Yeah it's okay 'cause you know the flowers etc came from you, but what if you've got no clue who 'Dave' is? I sincerely hope this was just a hypothetical scenario for you because it wasn't for one of my Research Rodents.
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