Cyberstalking is not “less real” because it happens through a screen.

If anything, it is often easier to sustain, harder to escape, and more likely to be dismissed by people who do not understand how targeted digital abuse works.

Fake accounts. Burner emails. Repeated messages after blocks. Impersonation. Doxxing threats. Anonymous contact. Monitoring posts and reacting in real time. Online fixation that bleeds into offline life.

Stalking is not confusion. It is not romance. It is not coincidence repeated ten times.

It is a pattern of unwanted attention, surveillance, contact, or presence that causes fear, distress, disruption, or control. And by the time many people realize they are being stalked, they have already spent weeks or months trying to convince themselves it is probably nothing.

That hesitation is exactly what stalkers count on.