I Absolutely Detest Stalkers And Trolls
You get that when some asshole goes off on a tirade on you, that it's NEVER true, right? Even if it contains some truth, it's at best/worst a Hitler-truth (ie: 90% true and 10% lie, with the truth shielding the lie, and the lie dementing all of the true parts and twisting them into utter darkness). None of it is ever worth anything to you, period.
"Evil" is a very appropriate word to use when describing the people who stalk people online and shit all over them with comments/messages/fakeProfiles. I have a bit of experience with beasts following me around and shitting all over me every chance they get. It's one of the worst experiences in the world.
The weapon that they have online is that they can always just make new profiles when their old ones get deleted. But the weapon that you have is that you can block and report them immediately without reading anything that they say except for the first few lines (enough to recognize that, oh, it's this garbage person again, or maybe some other garbage person, who cares *delete*), block and report the profile that they're targeting you with the second that you see it, and then never waste your time with it again. Avoid ever looking at the contents that they create, delete every comment that they write the second that you see it, without reading it. And never, ever respond to them in any way, or post stories about what they're doing to you (unless those stories come from a place of utter, utter strength), or give them ANYTHING to show them that their actions touch you.
They want to get under your skin. They want to get you to respond and to waste your time getting into discussions with them. They want you to treat them like people who you might be able to make stop, instead of treating them like the mindless animals that they are. You don't ask a snake not to bite you, you just walk away from it. You don't give a scorpion a ride across the river and assume that it won't sting you, you just refuse to give it a ride. If you truly and irrevocably commit to not giving them the responses that they're looking for, then they'll eventually move on and look for weaker targets.
Keep responding to them and showing that their shit bothers you, and they win by default, because you're giving them exactly what they want. Commit to blocking/reporting/deleting/ignoring them without reading what they write, and you win by default. It doesn't matter what they do - because the goal isn't to get them to stop. You don't have the power to do that. The goal is to recognize that their shit doesn't own you, or own your experience online. You'll still feel how you feel. You'll still feel hurt by their shit. You don't have the power to not feel hurt by their shit. But it won't matter, because you'll have done what you DO have the power to do, and that means 10 times more than anything that they could ever throw at you. I don't know how to explain it any better that that.
"Evil" is a very appropriate word to use when describing the people who stalk people online and shit all over them with comments/messages/fakeProfiles. I have a bit of experience with beasts following me around and shitting all over me every chance they get. It's one of the worst experiences in the world.
The weapon that they have online is that they can always just make new profiles when their old ones get deleted. But the weapon that you have is that you can block and report them immediately without reading anything that they say except for the first few lines (enough to recognize that, oh, it's this garbage person again, or maybe some other garbage person, who cares *delete*), block and report the profile that they're targeting you with the second that you see it, and then never waste your time with it again. Avoid ever looking at the contents that they create, delete every comment that they write the second that you see it, without reading it. And never, ever respond to them in any way, or post stories about what they're doing to you (unless those stories come from a place of utter, utter strength), or give them ANYTHING to show them that their actions touch you.
They want to get under your skin. They want to get you to respond and to waste your time getting into discussions with them. They want you to treat them like people who you might be able to make stop, instead of treating them like the mindless animals that they are. You don't ask a snake not to bite you, you just walk away from it. You don't give a scorpion a ride across the river and assume that it won't sting you, you just refuse to give it a ride. If you truly and irrevocably commit to not giving them the responses that they're looking for, then they'll eventually move on and look for weaker targets.
Keep responding to them and showing that their shit bothers you, and they win by default, because you're giving them exactly what they want. Commit to blocking/reporting/deleting/ignoring them without reading what they write, and you win by default. It doesn't matter what they do - because the goal isn't to get them to stop. You don't have the power to do that. The goal is to recognize that their shit doesn't own you, or own your experience online. You'll still feel how you feel. You'll still feel hurt by their shit. You don't have the power to not feel hurt by their shit. But it won't matter, because you'll have done what you DO have the power to do, and that means 10 times more than anything that they could ever throw at you. I don't know how to explain it any better that that.
