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I belong to a dating site and have belonged to it for 2 years now..I have had a great time there and made some friends..A woman joined a few months back who doesn't like me and 3 other women on the site. She has become very abusive to us in the chat room to the point of being banned only to return under a new profile...she has had her ISP blocked now and has had a friend of hers with a different ISP make a profile for her. Today she posted a link to a myspace page that she has created with my pictures and the other ladies pictures that she took from the dating site. She has very sexualy explicit captions under our pictures. My question is...Is this legal? and if not what can be done about it..it has already been reported both to Matchdoctor and Myspace..it's still there.
myspace has something on their site about that not being allowed. keep emailing them until they remove it. i highly doubt that it is legal but you'd probably need a lawyer to do anything more than have the profiles deleted.
technically, whatever you put on myspace is available to the public domain. Granted, what the woman is doing seems like defamation of character, but as justcurious says, you may have to go a bit of a distance to get it changed.
try to continue e-mailing myspace people and see what happens.
Unfortunately, regardless of her school letting the kids know about cyberspace etiquette and its dangers just recently, last week my daughter phoned me at work in tears and was obviously terrified as someone she didn't know sent her an msn message and knew her name. He also told her that he watched her walking home from school everyday and made some very frightening and threatening remarks.
Although it seemed possible it was one of the boys from her school playing an incredibly stupid prank (which turned out to be the case), I was seriously concerned at the time and made a series of frantic phone calls to kids homes, the police, and got in touch with her school the next morning. Thankfully the boy admitted he sent her the message - but what a lesson to have had to learn.
Thank you all for your help..we have contacted Myspace about this matter..what they want us to do is send them a pic of ourselves holding a sign that has MYSPACE.COM written across it. Can this be true? Is this the way that Myspace handles these types of complaints? It seems that anything that has anything of a sexual nature involved should be handled in a better way than this.
Oh yeah, that sounds like that is going to stop her. I would hope that My Space would be able to do something more than that. I don't have any advice about how to go about changing it or making it stop other than to say that when dealing with a bully, reacting to anything that they do or say is what they want you to do. Therefore, do the exact opposite of what they want you to do and eventually they will tire and give up. I know that it stinks that you have your picture and name dragged through the mud on these sites, but does it really matter what people on these sites think of you? You really don't know them other than to email back and forth. After a while, everyone else will see what is really going on and will have nothing more to do with her. This woman sounds as though she has a lot of problems and is going to lead a very miserable and lonely life. I hope you get this problem resolved!!!
It may even possibly be a male? It was a good idea to have made friends with other women on the dating site for support. As Mom of 2 suggests, ignore this person and maybe even disappear from view for a while, until it's no longer an issue.
Sounds like a really awful thing to have happened.
Thankfully the boy admitted he sent her the message - but what a lesson to have had to learn.
Please, please, please tell me this boy got into some serious trouble. The internet is making it so easy for people to just do 'whatever' and not even think twice about it. Like just because it's easy to access and worldwide and that everyone can get on it, somehow makes it Ok to say what you want, do what you want, stick anything up you want (including sticking pictures of other people up). And even worse with a younger generation that is growing up with the internet and some of this stuff just seeming "normal" to them.
BTW, surely you can set MSN (don't use it) to not accept messages from anyone that you don't know?
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