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Originally Posted by divine1966
Is she stalking you on online forums or other online venues or FB? Could you block her? Or ask moderators to block her? Is this the type of setting where you can’t block or unfriend or ignore people? Since she isn’t stalking you in real life, I’d think you’d be able to block her?
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Okay, in response to both you and Eskielover, because I understand what is happening to Artchic, you can block the person all you want, it's not stopping them from trying to get at you. I, unfortunately, cannot go into specifics of how they do this, because I don't want to divulge what has happened to me and give any one any ideas on how to go around the privacy settings people set up. I would be happy to in a PM if you're curious. But please, just trust me, if the cyberstalker/bully wants to get at you, there are certainly ways.
Certainly there are things you can do, like on Facebook, where you can block them. But what I find is that each time you block them through one mechanism, they just go to the next vehicle to try and harass you there. This is the nature of their obsession, they just don't stop because a roadblock goes up. They don't stop when you get the authorities involved. Maybe they can't stop, I don't know.
So, yes, you implement all the privacy settings you can, but then you also continue to document any contact they try to do...and each time they find a new way, you block that too, but you still document it.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that all you do is document. What we're saying is that in addition to all the protections you can put in place to block this person, also document everything that happens in case you need to ask the authorities for help, so you can show the pattern of behavior.