Stalkers

[paulpablo]

I'm wondering how much info and via what methods can someone get out of you online.

I know this seems like a vague question, but let's say all that someone knows about you is your presence on a forum or chat site like this one.

You don't accept any emails from them or files of any kind you're just on the same forum/chat site as them.

To what lengths could someone stalk you, find out where you work, your car details and so on?

There's a high possability I'm being stalked, not from this forum though.  But that's why I'm asking.  It's involving women and their crazy ex boyfriends.

How are they stalking you? Are you on facebook? It's pretty easy to stalk on facebook. When I get a girls number I'll search for it on facebook to find her profile lol, but I don't creepy about it. Anyway that's probably how they found you. You can search by many ways on facebook to find profiles as well. If you have ever posted your picture somewhere on a forum, you could possibly post it on facebook, and the facial recognition would allow you to find the person as well sometimes. Lock your facebook down to limit only friends.

The best thing is that I have no facebook, myspace or any of that.  My name on that site isn't the same username as it is on other sites and I never put my last name anywhere online anyway.  I'm pretty sure my surname exists nowhere online.  There's no clear face picture of me on the site either.

I think it's actually the girl who should be more worried than me, he's been in trouble with the police with his previous girlfriend for stalking.  She's the main person being stalked.

For her it's the usual stuff like he calls her and cries down the phone, whenever she's in these chatrooms somehow he seems to know when and where and is always watching her.

All that's happened with me is he caught me on cam, I was sat in a dark room luckily and not properly upclose to the cam in any way.  He hasn't sent a message or anything but I think it's safe to say he's the obsessive type.

He knows I met her but as far as I can tell my only existence known to him is my existence via the ID I use on this one site.  I use it on my IMGflip profile too but I'm not concerned about him finding out about what memes I make.

What the girl was asking me was is it possible to have something on your computer where you can always see when they're online or whatever but I don't know about any of that.

I'll probably delete my profile off that site anyway that's not a huge issue for me.