I'm a victim of both cyber harassment and cyberstalking, but the few times I was actually threatened, nothing could be traced back to anyone, and I always assumed it wasn't worth pursuing, as nobody had done anything actually illegal.
I had gotten nasty comments from classmates, people I barely talked to, years ago on MySpace (mostly about how weird and ugly I was, and how nobody would ever like me), deleted it, and they remade it, continuing to spam it, knowing it wasn't me.
My then-boyfriend and I broke up a couple of years later, because he had cheated on me repeatedly, and wasn't even speaking to me anymore, and his response was to spam my email and follow me from website to website, where I had to block him multiple times to keep him from talking to me.
In the first case, the school did nothing about it, other than call me a liar, and in both, my parents just turned a deaf ear, or used it as a lecture on how I was stupid for going on the internet.
I don't...feel like there's anything I could do, other than maybe blame myself? Should I? What's the right course of action here?
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I'm a victim of both cyber harassment and cyberstalking, but the few times I was actually threatened, nothing could be traced back to anyone, and I always assumed it wasn't worth pursuing, as nobody had done anything actually illegal.
I had gotten nasty comments from classmates, people I barely talked to, years ago on MySpace (mostly about how weird and ugly I was, and how nobody would ever like me), deleted it, and they remade it, continuing to spam it, knowing it wasn't me.
My then-boyfriend and I broke up a couple of years later, because he had cheated on me repeatedly, and wasn't even speaking to me anymore, and his response was to spam my email and follow me from website to website, where I had to block him multiple times to keep him from talking to me.
In the first case, the school did nothing about it, other than call me a liar, and in both, my parents just turned a deaf ear, or used it as a lecture on how I was stupid for going on the internet.
I don't...feel like there's anything I could do, other than maybe blame myself? Should I? What's the right course of action here?
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