I recently had someone make multiple My Space accounts so that she could e-mail me and harass me about what I was posting in my blogs. She even started contacting my friends who had posted comments on my blogs and had her friends do the same. I try to just delete her messages before I read them and block her accounts as she messages me from them.
–Anonymous
–Anonymous
In high school I was harassed a lot, but one girl was the main instigator. Her boyfriend caught her harassing me and told her to stop--and when she didn't, he broke up with her. She then used her position as an office aide to get my class schedule and distribute it to her friends so that they too could harass me and spread rumors about me
–Anonymous
When I was in high school, a group of girls decided that they didn't like me. They would surround me and push me, taunt me, call me names, tell me that they were going to kick my ass, and basically make me feel completely vulnerable. Even when I was walking home from school, when their bus passed me they would hang out the windows and yell things at me. For the most part, two girls in the group initiated the bullying. I tried pointing out that they were too afraid to confront me one on one and that I'd gladly talk to them individually, but I refused to while they had such a large group. But it didn't seem to matter. Even though I tried to stand up for myself, I was outnumbered and humiliated. This went on for three years since they were a grade ahead of me.
–KKB
–Anonymous
I had dated a guy and broken up with him. About four years later, we began dating again and got engaged. The girl that he dated while we were apart started using MySpace to lash out at both of us, messaging personal insults and accusing us of using drugs. She then started making threatening phone calls. As a result, I've pressed charges against both her and a cousin of hers who helped with the harassing, but nothing has changed yet.
–LB
When I was 10, I logged into AOL to check my e-mail. AOL originally logged into the messenger while logging into the browser, and as I was checking my e-mail, a message window popped up and a guy asked my ASL.
I told him and he started asking about my breasts and if he could see them. I told him I wasn't going to talk to him anymore and closed the window, but he kept messaging me with increasingly lewd comments and even sent his number because he wanted me to call and "talk dirty" to him. I ended up signing completely out of the browser because I couldn't figure out how to get out of the messenger alone. I asked my parents to change AOL so that the messenger wouldn't automatically start when I started AOL, but I was freaked out for a while.
–Anonymous
One day I set up a page on MySpace. That same day or the next, a guy started hitting on me. At first it seemed totally innocent, until he asked me if I liked older guys and if the fact that he was 35 meant that he was too old for me. He sent all sorts of e-mails trying to gain my trust and then started asking about my bra size, whether or not I shaved, and if I touched myself. Then he asked me to send him some of my underwear. At first I thought it was a joke, but then he sent me his full name and mailing address. In that same e-mail, he told me that he was going to dream about having sex with me that night. The next day, though, he messaged me again and told me not to send him my underwear (not that I was going to anyway!) and that I was too young. I looked at his MySpace page, and he had over 145 friends, 120 of them girls 18 or younger--most of them between 14 and 18 years old. I contacted the girls and found out that he was sending them graphic e-mails as well and telling them that he was using
their pictures to masturbate to. Hid friend count dropped from 145 to 12 in a really short time. He later claimed that he gave me his address to find out if I was "just another slut" or not. His profile got deleted from MySpace, but I don't know if anything else ever happened to him.
–Anonymous
When I was 21, I worked at a company where the assistant manager was very "touchy," always trying to brush against women. One day when I was tending the ovens, the guy came up behind me, pressed against me, and tried wrapping his arms around me. I told him to get away from me and that I wasn't one of his little groupies. A week later I was fired for being sick and not calling in on time. When I threatened to file a lawsuit against the assistant manager for harassment and against the company for not doing anything about his behavior, he was fired as well.
–Anonymous
When I was 19, I worked as a cashier at a local grocery store. A vendor there who was at least 10 years older kept hitting on me while I was working. It made me very uncomfortable, and I told him point-blank that I wasn't interested in him. Then one night when I was home babysitting my little sister while my parents were out, he showed up at my house. I have no idea how he figured out where I lived--he didn't know my last name or any other information. The only way he could have known the location of my house was if he had followed me home from work. He wouldn't leave either until I finally told him that I had to go pick up my other sister. The next day I told my supervisor about the guy showing up. I'm assuming my supervisor said something to the vendor because he never came near me again.
–JC
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