I find the term online stalker (or stalked online or online stalking or whatever other way the word stalk is used with online) to be rather interesting because it doesn’t mean the same today as it did ten years ago.
In 2002, the mere mention of someone “stalking someone else online” struck terror into people’s hearts. Well, not anymore. Online stalking has become so degraded in meaning that it now literally translates to “annoying someone else on the internet”.
Yes, this means if you posted something on someone’s Facebook wall they didn’t like, you stalked them. Yep. You’re an evil person for doing it and should be hung by your thumbs for it, you dirty stalker. How dare you disagree with someone else’s opinion on Facebook? Were you watching them the whole time waiting for the right moment to strike? I bet you were. The fact that person was on your “friend list” is totally irrelevant, because unless you absolutely agree with 100% of what your dopey friends say, you’re stalking.
Obviously, the above sentence is meant to be a joke, but here’s the sad part – it’s not. People have degraded the meaning of stalking that much.
Anyone who comments on this article is oh-so obviously stalking me, and I’ll have to sick the PCMech Legal Warrior after you. Watch his ad below. Tough-as-nails dude.
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