I was Stalked on the Internet

I've been writing online for well over a year. I started blogging about a year and a half ago about "my life online." My generally non-controversial blog was an online journal where I wrote about everything and anything that occurred during my daily life. Over time, I acquired many internet "friends" with whom I communicated. There were also the various, what I like to refer to as "porno people" who would join the website in a pathetic effort to have weird sexual encounters with strangers. Those people soon got weeded away from my "friends" list.

On my page I had photographs of myself as well as my children. On occasion, I would put other photographs up of other people in my family as well as places to where I traveled. My website was not unusual in this respect, however using my real name on my page is somewhat of an anomaly. The way I figure it, if you have something to say, have the guts to stand behind it with your name or shut up. I used to work for a newspaper and this motto was drilled into my head on a daily basis. I am one of the rare people who really doesn't care what others think, particularly strangers.

I never had any problems with my blog page until a couple of months ago. That is when I started getting harassed by a stranger who, unlike me, decided to hide his identity behind an avatar and false name. I was not the only person he harassed and he was not the first person to post obnoxious comments on my page, so I ignored him. At first.

But he persisted with the harassment with very explicit and offensive remarks. I visited his page and saw that his blogs were racist, homophobic and hateful towards women. They were filled with obscenities of virtually every nature. I pretty much told him what I thought as well as what I thought of his female "friends" who also participated in his little hate-fest. This brought on a barrage of messages and comments from a group of people who probably had an cumulative IQ score of 60.