Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on facebook and cyber stalking. Social networks provide a cheap way of expressing ideas. Many people have often deal with ugly social situations following cyberstalking. .
Media acts as a tool, which people use to disseminate information to society. Social fabric depends on media use because any information that preaches hatred or peace would reach a large audience when expressed in the media. Technological development has contributed to the creation of social networking sites. Cyberstalking is an electronic method of harassing individuals using the internet. Lamber Royakkers, a renowned professor of technology, argues that stalking is a mental violation (assault) where the perpetrator disruptively or unwontedly intrudes into the victim’s world aiming at infringing on the rights of the victim. Largely the perpetrator does not have any relationship with the victim.
The method used in passing information influences the legal implication on the victims. In some cases, an individual may fail to identify the gravity of the information that he relays to the society. Before an individual describes a case as cyberstalking, one has to identify the legal authority and its description of cyberstalking. Each case of cyberstalking has its own magnitude to an individual, thus prompting different approaches in each case of cyberstalking. Some identified cases of cyberstalking include. premeditation, malice, distress, repetition, obsession, without a legitimate purpose, vendetta, harassment, personally directed, and disregarded warning to stop (Chaulk & Jones, 2011). The legal implication that various forms of stalking carry depend on the existing legislation in society. For instance, malice has a different psychological impact on an individual compared to the issuing of threats.
Repetition of an event or various events in an individual life leads to internal mental movies or schemas (Tiffany et. al, 2008). An individual has the ability to develop schemas of any occurrence. . For instance, relationship schemas occur when a person experiences a romantic or parental relationship.
