MSNBC did some research to find out how many people have been cyber stalked on the two major social web sites. The issue of cyber stalking is not new, and has been happening since the good old IRC days, so getting this update from MSNBC on who and why people are cyber stalking each other is an interesting view point into jealousy, anger and revenge. In other words, it is the perfect story.
People do the darndest things, and depending on how well people are adjusted, or what their mates are like is really going to set up the idea of staking via the internet. While the article mainly focuses on the idea of people already in a relationship, there are going to be a pile of other people that are being stalked by someone who was in the relationship, the dreaded ex, or some random person who thinks there is a relationship when there isn’t one.
One of the stories really covers the trust in your partner and is betrayed kind of story.
“MySpace ruined my last relationship. I thought I would keep it under control by sharing one profile with my ex-girlfriend so I could keep an eye on who sent her friend requests and stuff like that … and there would always be these random guys that would just show up one day. I would ask who they were and she would reply by saying they were ‘just friends.’ As a guy I know that a guy is never ‘just a friend’ … ever! Then one day she tells me she can’t be my girlfriend anymore and split. Where did she end up just one week later: In Vegas with her ‘just a friend.’” Source: MSNBC
When people are not ready to settle down, they go do other stuff, and if the relationship gets dull, they will go out and find something not so dull. That is a reality in today’s relationship model, and if the couple was really interested in working it they could. As a cyber stalking issue though, the whole story makes it kind of a misnomer on the MSNBC side.
The article is really about how MySpace and Facebook facilitated an already strained relationship, giving one partner or another an easy way to find someone that would be relatively trackless unless one member of the relationship got paranoid. In all though, interesting stories, some good stalking, some good relationship stories, and how the use of MySpace and facebook allowed partners in the relationship to find someone else. Much to the annoyance of someone else in the relationship.
