Have you ever been stalked?

[Abbycado]

Creepo

Have you ever been stalked, in real life, online or otherwise? If you were the stalker, feel free to go anon XD

Yes

No

[FunkyMonkee]

You COULD say that. Numerous times, kids in school would follow me around or hide in corners somewhere so they could pounce and try to beat me up. They've even chased me through the school!
Christmas `69 or `70, mom bought me a fake suede vest that had a few bits of pre-printed graffiti on it and you can use a magic marker to write your own things on it. I wore it to school one day and, suddenly, all these girls in school kept chasing me through the halls if they saw me so they could write stuff on my vest!! I felt like I was a Beatle constantly trying to get away from mobs of girls wanting to rip me apart!
And, one time, I was on this site that I think was called, Gator. This was about 2002 or 3 and I was brand new to the internet and just got my first full computer so, I wasn't aware of the sickos and all the techy gymnastics you had to do to steer clear of them or what they could do to come after you! All I know was, I was looking around online, one night when either I spotted a question being asked about The Beatles or I wanted to ask one and I was directed to this chat room type site but, in order for me to respond or ask the question, I had to DL something called, Gator and then register myself with a screen name and password. So, I did. Via that question, I started talking to this girl in Michigan and we got on quite well together and had many lengthy chats about The Beatles and loads of other things. After a week or two, we fell in love. We figured it was a private place and nobody else could read what we were saying to each other so, we were sexually and romantically quite open about the things we discussed there! Then, one day, this crazy guy suddenly injected himself into our chat and started gong nuts on us! He said he was the owner of Gator, he was down in Texas and called himself a "Texean", claiming in his rants that that's how it's suppose to be pronounced and he went on and on about how he was gonna report us to the police for the things we were saying!! We both fought with him for a while but, she quickly got really spooked by him and left the site and we never DID get together!! Of course, I uninstalled Gator from my computer and never went back there, again.

[RebelinSteel]

Yes in real life, twice. The first one was a guy who was randomly stalking people, I just happened to be on his list. It was the Police that informed me, as he was arrested for stalking someone else, when the arrested him, they found a list of people, yours truly was on that list lol.
the other was a girl who decided I should date her, I was not going to, so she started small with the odd email, then letter posted to me, then phone calls, then I would be out with friends and she would be in same place with a friend, at first I put it down to coincidence, however it started to get a bit more concerning, the final straw was getting sent photos of one of my cats 🐈‍⬛. I went to the police and they were not a great help as I was a He and she was a she, eventually I got a restraining order and I moved house.

even for a guy it’s concerning as you have friends, family, pets, cars etc that can all be targetted.

[Horse-girl]

I'm not sure if you'd call it stalking but I've had someone who was always trying to be beside me and would stare without stopping, he was really creepy and it was definitely quite a disturbing experience. I hope you haven't had to deal with stalkers. 😊

[DarkLegacy]

Nothing wrong with that. I expect he had Autism or something and you didn't like his look hence hwy you had a problem with it

[Horse-girl]

@DarkLegacy I don't think that was the reason I found it uncomfortable, it was more because of the lengths he'd go to do it or him listening in to private conversations and things.

[Siri137]

So far I've been lucky, and haven't been stalked. Then again, I can be, and often am, very intimidating. I'm 6 ft (183 cm) tall and have a severe case of 'resting-bitch face', so I probably scare them all away! :D

[Somoneelse]

Yep. I believe I have been stalked 3 times in my life.

Once by a homosexual ex-collegae who had feelings for me and decided to randomly contact & stalk me 2 years later on social media
Once by a young fanboy of one of my friends. My friend is a quite populair tech-youtuber and that kid was a huge fan of him. But that kid also decided to stalk everyone that youtuber is friends with. So stuff like social media, but even looking up adresses and personal info.
Once by a ex-friend. Well he used to be a friend but went stalkermode (and extreme flirty over text) when he caught feelings for me and wanted more. Plus couldn't take no for a answer

[Somoneelse]

Remembered another one just now from some years ago with a stalker. An old client/customer of mine from my IT side-job. It was a Student-IT company who has students as employee's. For that job you had to go to people's homes to help them with IT-related problems. This could be from wifi not working on a laptop at a eldery to a printer having issues at a business. Well one of my clients/customers had issues with his laptop, losing access to his windows account because he forgot his password. I managed to retrieve it. But he was so happy with my help, that he kept on asking me to help him outside of the company I worked for. (As the customers had to pay a quite big sum per 30 minutes for the help to the company, where we only got 30% from ourselves as salary). But the company had a lot of contracts for employees forbidding them to do It-related help outside of the company, with fines up to 10K per "violation" plus a 6 month non-competition clause. Not even to mention other bullshit policies they had. I told him No multiple times and he kept on asking me. Even contacting me through my phonenumber, which he got from the company. (like wtf!) Trying to bribe me with a big sum of money and other stuff. I reported it to the company as I got very annoyed and felt unsafe. They did nothing about it, but "reminded" me of the contracts almost as I wanted to break contract as a 17 year old boy. Heck no!

[Somoneelse]

I left the company some weeks after due to other bad experiences with people including this incident. One year later after I left the job, that client managed to find out where my new job was and he kept on visiting my work. And you guess it already... again trying to bribe me into helping him and even now asking me to work for him and move with him to Spain to help there with IT stuff "for his daughter". While I was still in school and obviously not going to another country with a random client who already kept stalking and annoying me. This stalking went on for some months almost every two weeks when he visited my work till I told my manager about it and got placed on another department inside the store (in the warehouse behind the store) for some time till that customer stopped visiting me/the store. That customer tried some months later again to contact me so he got a store-ban for a year and reported to the local law-enforcement. After that he never came back again.

[Staximus]

Kind of, this crazy girl keeps trying to get in contact with me for the past 26 years. I had known her in high school and she was always trying to have sex with me. One day I made the mistake of doing it. I told my brother and he told me she already had sex with him at my friend's house the week before. I ditched her and told her we can't hang out anymore. She's been stalking my online posts, messaging me online, asking my friends for my phone number. One of my dumb ass friends has given her my new number twice over the years because he thinks it's funny. 26 years and this girl won't leave me alone after we had sex one time.

[Friendlybro79]

Once by a girl that wouldn't take no for an answer. It made me really uncomfortable and it made me feel really bad for women because this probably happens more to them and it's just a very vulnerable feeling.

This woman met me randomly somewhere and I happened to make small talk, like I usually do, and I stupidly said where I worked. She showed up a few times where I worked and I had to explain several times I wasn't interested and that I was seeing someone at the time. She didn't care. She also said she'd tell people I did stuff to her if I didn't go out with her.

Luckily my female colleague overhead her and she actually called the police for me without me knowing. When they arrived they spoke to her and she never came in again. It was so weird.

[Anonymous]

Had it on here a few times, yeah.

There are, I think, far more men than women who stalk, but there are / have been some super creepy women on here. One created duplicate accounts, so that I wouldn't guess it was her, but she's very transparent.

[TommyMountainFigure]

Never, at least I don't think I have. Although yesterday or the day before, on here something weird happened. Someone attacked me for no reason and I just laughed it off. I wonder if I DO have a stalker? Oh well, time will tell!

[elaphe]

Not IRL. but on Facebook I had a guy tell me he was going to track me down and "beat the sh! t out of me after I gave an innocent compliment to one of his girlfriend's pictures. She was dressed as a ladybug for Halloween, and I told her that her costume was cute. His Facebook account was shut down the next day.

[Anonymous]

I've both stalked and have been stalked. I was rejection stalked online for 2 years. I guess it was karma for stalking my gym teacher in high school. In MY defense, at the time I didn't see it as stalking, and I only realized as I got older how creepy I was.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Yes. But they stalked a wrong person and they quickly learned it ;)

[Arik_jade]

Yes I have been stalked online as well as real life

[Arik_jade]

@Abbycado what is your experience

[Abbycado]

Just online really. Easier to deal with that in some ways. Never in real life, to my knowledge.

[Arik_jade]

Yeah 👍

[Arik_jade]

What u think about me.. whether I staked u or not.. What u think

[Abbycado]

Not that I noticed. I have some that reply to every opinion I post almost and ask something sexual or about my body. 😭

[Arik_jade]

Yeah.. there are.. but u can tell them

[PeachyPie93]

No, I barely leave my house so I would be a pretty boring person to stalk lol.

[douride2]

Yes I have been stalked before. In all honesty I think he is still not allowed across the Canada US border.

[Grond21]

I was not stalked exactly. More like aggressively pursued with no regard to boundaries. It took a while for the stressful anticipation to go away

[TonyMetal___86]

Stalking me? 🤣🤣 no one wants to awake the monster in me, that's where the hunter becomes the hunted 😌

[DarkLegacy]

I expect many of the women responding are being melodramatic. Unless they are being stalked under the definition of the law then they are not being stalked.

[Abbycado]

I guess the guys that say they have are lying too then?

[DarkLegacy]

@Abbycado it all depends on what you define as stalking

[Abbycado]

Not what I asked. I am asking if you are suggesting just the girls that have answered are being dramatic or does that include the guys too?

[DarkLegacy]

@Abbycado maybe yes. Either way less then half of all people have been stalked. Someone staring at someone is not stalking

[Abbycado]

Haven't seen that mentioned one time as the reason of stalking oddly. I just like how you only pointed out women and excluded men. That is very telling.

[Kelly6]

@Abbycado if I ever do I’ll report him to police or ask public for help.

[Dat-Alpha-Lion]

Thankfully haven’t had that happen to me. But then again I’m not a woman, and no woman should ever have to go through all that.

[katiesmuff]

I sure don't think so!

[Abbycado]

That's good!

[talka20]

i think I've been stalked by someone much older... not by walkin after me but just standing around cuz his area was same

[Sharkstealth]

Someone was putting pinches of food in my mailbox. A couple times when I opened it ants were swarmed inside. I think it may have been a jealous coworker but I'm not sure.

[CubaPirate]

Not that I'm aware but I've had a feeling that I might have been