What are the characteristics of a stalker?

Answer 1

well a stalker would try and communicate with you secretly like create a user name that you don't know and they might try to hide. but if you get caught up into someone you might not even see them

Stalkers can be any age or sex and have any or no connection to their target.

A stalker can be anybody from a work colleague to a neighbour, a former friend or partner, someone who serves you in a store, someone with a real or imagined grudge; anybody. Usually they get over it fairly soon; stalking takes time and energy and most stalkers are quickly noticed by their target, who can take steps to avoid them, or their target might never become aware of their attentions at all; this is common. It's only the rare and extreme cases that get publicity, so don't worry too much.

A stalker is usually insecure and fantasy-driven with a need for control. Their view of the person they are stalking might have no connection with reality at all: they can build an entire fantasy life (usually involving themselves in some way) around the object of their obsession, and have no idea this fantasy has no basis in fact.

Very many stalkers simply observe quietly and think a great deal about their target, never making contact and never making themselves known in any way to that target.

Others might attempt to make some form of contact which could well remain unnoticed by their target; others can - frequently after some period of stalking involving no contact - begin to make contact in different ways: they might telephone when they know their target to be out, just to listen to the phone message, or they might leave objects - a flower, a publication - casually where their target will find it.

Many times the stalker is known to their target in some way, sometimes well-known, other times by casual contact (in a shop or office, and so on) and of course a stalker can be a person previously involved in a friendship or relationship with their target.

If you suspect you are being stalked, don't panic. Most stalkers are harmless. Tell someone you trust about the situation and if possible enlist their help in observing what's giving you cause for suspicion. Make a report to authorities, bearing in mind they'll want any information you can give; dates and times and description, for example.

Don't get obsessed yourself; it's all to easy to begin jumping at shadows. If at any stage you become concerned for your safety or that of others, or if the suspected stalking is affecting your life and emotional wellbeing, act immediately by contacting police.

Do not confront a person you suspect is stalking you, and don't allow or encourage anyone close to you to do so. If you are sufficiently concerned that you feel you should take steps to remedy the situation, you must contact police, if only so that they have a record of what's happening: your stalker could be engaging in similar behaviour with others, so it's good for authorities to possibly record a pattern.

Answer 2

Stalkers generally posses the quality of being sneaky. They do things in the hidden manner. They do not want it to be revealed to any other person.