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Quote: In today´s online world of MySpace and Facebook, the trend seems to be against what the media has been warning the public of for years. Don´t mention your name, your school, your town; wait, I meant, please join the "School X" and "Town Y" social groups!
No one wants to feel anxious about their online identity these days. We all want to connect, to play, to share information, to put ourselves on Youtube videos, post photos, and it has even become uncool to be antsy about meeting people you met online.
Unfortunately, regardless of what we´d like to believe, stalking still happens. A high school girl was recently approached at school by a man who crossed borders and travelled hours to find her.
For one 16 year-old girl, her long-time WoW guildmate began to stalk her. The female college student she had been hanging around with in a virtual world for months, chatting about fashion and parties, turned out to be a 20 year-old Canadian male.
She met him face-to-face when he showed up at her high school, claiming to be her guildmate´s best friend. Armed with odd gifts like a set of his car keys and a The OC DVD box set, he showed her some photos of her guildie that she´d recognize, and asked her to lunch.
It became apparent very quickly that something was very wrong. His behavior was strange; he not only offered her a new laptop computer, but he also hung around the school parking lot for hours, claiming he didn´t know how he would get back home.
Luckily, the girl and her friends had the presence of mind to inform school officials. The local deputy uncovered that although the man knew the woman, Vera, whose identity he had virtually assumed, she did not know that he had been posing as her, even using her photos, on both MySpace and WoW. In his car the police found several bottles of hard liquor.
Why WoW always connect with lame story huh? Is it just WoW or the whole MMO community?
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