Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
One does not need to provide personal details in Internet, as long as one has a bank account, pays bills, has a mobile phone, and everything else that is part of our every day life, means that we are easily found. Information has been canalized for decades now, Internet is just another tool, the most powerful and the one that puts us all in the same bag across the 4 points of the planet, making it even easier in a worldwide scale.
Oh yeah, now I remember... my point was about stalkers. It's not much of a point, it's just basically comprised of two elements.
1. Protect your information as best you can, and that necessarily includes who you are and where you live.
2. If a stalker does show up, give him a reason (or several reasons) to get as far away from you as fast he can. Most stalkers are harmless and are basically trying to live out a fantasy, but even the aggressive ones can be scared off in the face of unexpected resistance. If they can't frighten you, that will usually frighten them.
It's the hardcore ones that can be a problem, but there really aren't all that many Ted Bundys out there for anyone to lose sleep over.
There's something else, and it always bugs me when I hear about it. Some women have become so militant about their rights they will put themselves in harms way for no good reason. It always irritates me when someone gets hurt because they were basically being stupid, and will then yell about how their rights were violated. I feel like yelling back, "So don't
go to bars alone wearing sexy clothing and staying until closing time, and then accept a ride home with some sleazeball guy you don't even know!"