Stalking:

Stalking is an action with which offender carves up someone intentionally and tends the victim to be frightened. Stalking is a criminal behaviour that involves willingly and repetitive unwanted contact, chasing, and harassment.
Stalking can be the outcome of several emotions like disgust, anxiousness, frustration, boredom, craving, interest and lust etc. These emotions are considered to be the reason to give rise to stalking also some incident, accident or family history be the cause for a person turning into a stalker.

What is Digital Stalking?

Since social networking has started, a new term of stalking has come to be noticed. Means of communication and social networking sites had been developed to benefit and upgrade human life but people with evil mentality can take disadvantage of any source to trouble other and satisfy their sense
of sick mentality by stalking.

Digital Stalking is an action in which a person stalks someone other intentionally with the help of some digital means such as mobile phone, internet, social networking site, messaging app etc. Stalker feels safe while stalking digitally as the chances are rare for him/her to be caught.
Stalking is done through various means of social networking or communication is called digital stalking.

Digital Stalking Via Social Networking:

Several means of communication like telephones, mobiles, webcam, cameras, internet and social networking sites have become a good and revolutionary medium of communication and verbal stalking, also have given rise to Digital Stalking Via Social Networking.

Though people have come closer to their family and friends after numerous social networking sites have been introduced. Now distance in miles is not that painful as it was ages before. It supposed to be possible only after means of transmissions that connect people universally but there’s always another side of the coin persists which is here is being introduced as Digital Stalking Via Social Networking.

Sources of interaction and sites for social networking are good to make people closer and connected while on the other hand minds full of shit are using all of these to satisfy their sense of lust, boredom, craving, anxiousness, and frustration by troubling others.   

Digital Stalking: Objects boosting Stalking

Fake ID on Social Networking Site:

There are no criteria and no documentation required to create an ID on different Social Networking sites. It has become an easy and most common mean of stalking for the generation. A Stalker just needs to spend a couple of minutes to generate a fake ID in order to chase one or more people. On Second step Stalker start bothering the victim by sending unwanted videos, messages and pictures just for self-amusement or satisfaction. Interruption attains the intolerable stages and the victim gets done with it or falls in some serious medical illness.  

Fake ID on a Social Networking Site can be Reported: 

Those who find it fun and a good time pass to stalk other people should better know that if the technology is capable of upgrading gadget and it’s been misused, also the solution got introduced to stop that nonsense.
Here Victim should know not only you can block them but also you can report their whole conversation, messages, MMS, videos and everything they did to you. Just follow the steps one by one on the site you have been stalked. Further enquiry can also be done on the next level in cybercrime Forum.         

Telephone Or Mobile:

Telephone and mobile can also be used to stalk people. This mean of stalking requires some efforts however yet stalker finds it very helpful to chase a person as the stalker can communicate anytime anywhere on telephone or mobile. After the mobile phone launched in 1994 revolutionary use of smart has provided stalker multiple disastrous benefits like camera, video camera, video calling, video msgs, MMS and many more have taken place of their weapons in stalking. This mean of stalking ends up the personal life of the victim and harasses to the mental disturbance.

Telephone Or Mobile Stalking can Be Reported:

Victim got all the rights to get out of kind of a mess. The first step for them is to block that particular no. But also the stalker can use multiple No. to harass you. In that case, you can call the customer support of your network and report for the same.
A person can make a call on 1909 and register a complaint about that Number or also can send a message to 1909. There is a process for how a person can report the number SMS on TRAI Website Link. 
For Smartphone its easier while numerous apps are there for victims to take action for their safety.  

How you can Safe yourself:

· Keep your settings to Private on Instagram
· Keep your settings to Protected on Twitter
· Keep your settings to Private on Facebook
· Don’t receive unnecessary requests on Facebook
· Keep your profile on Protected lock
· Get aware of the updated technology and apps being introduced timely to escape risks
· Keep talking your friends and family with all happenings going with you
· Keep sharing everything with your near ones if there’s worse time we wish you wouldn’t have one.  

Steps should be taken to avoid Digital Stalking:

· Block the phone number
· Block stalker on What’s App
· Block Stalker on Facebook
· Block Stalker on Instagram
· Block Stalker on Instagram
· Blacklist Stalker’s Email