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Internet Research
Before computers, research was done in libraries, using card catalogs and the Dewey decimal system. Now the Internet lets us have a world of information at our fingertips. Ask questions here about how to research on the Internet and how to cite websites correctly.
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Yes, warn the site owners. At least you did your reasonable part, the moral, socially responsible thing, and what happens next is out of your hands.
If you think he is or may be criminally dangerous, go to the police.
If he contacts you again, I recommend two options:
1) call the police, or
2) if you are voluntarily talking to him, seek mental health help. (I am not joking).
I speak from experience, these people can sometimes be deadly dangerous, and they suck you into their twisted world millimeters at a time,so you have no idea it's happening until you're "in", and dangerously deep, and can't get out.
If you have a police report in hand, then the site owners will take you seriously.
Get help if you feel anything other than to run, run, run.
Many thanks for all that info Marcy. I will consider what I should do next. As you will have noticed, they moved it to the this section when I asked them to. You are absolutely right about the dangers of Internet "dating" but having said that, this is the first bad experience I've had, though it's been enough to cure me completely! Don't all fall round laughing (I know you won't) but I am a very experienced mental health professional. From the first communications with this guy my intuition was screaming "No - danger" but I ignored it!!!!!!!! I think he "hooked" into the part of me that likes to know how/why people tick, and he seemed very interesting and unusual (oh, boy was he!). We met only once at New Year, which was mixed. Other plans to meet were always scuppered by him at the last moment - I reckon he gets his kicks out of lying/manipulating over the phone - he would phone every night for about 2 hrs. I became increasingly suspicious and gave him five "conditions" he would have to meet if we were to continue the relationship, one of which was to provide an address where I could send a recorded delivery letter to the name he had given me. In the letter would be a piece of paper with one word on and he had then to phone me and tell me what the word was. He balked at this and tried to spin lines about why he couldn't do it, and I told him it was non-negotiable. Shortly afterwards he wrote and admitted that he had been lying, but didn't feel he was "obligated" to tell me the truth. That was a week ago. I didn't write back and he hasn't tried to contact me. He doesn't know my address. He did try to get money out of me, but on that I saw sense! The only way he "harmed" me was to dent my pride/ego and to waste a lot of time and energy on him. Now he knows he's been rumbled (well about the lies, not that I have realised he is a sociopath) I expect the whole thing is no longer fun, so he will have moved on to "greener pastures" - looking back, I can see how he "groomed" me in a similar way to how paedophiles "groom" kids. But as he never had any genuine feelings for me (despite what he said to the contrary), I don't really feel in danger, because I am of little consequence and disposable - plenty more mugs where I came from!
If this person is hurting these women in any way, you should report it to the police immediately. You can do it without giving your name.
I am the person who asked the original question, but wish to remain anonymous for safety reasons. Although Leslie's answer is sound advice in general, it is the particular nature of sociopaths to be extremely devious and secretive. They are "con" men par excellence and often women do not realise what is happening until it is too late and they have lost everything - house, family, business etc, not to mention self-esteem, and in the worst scenarios, their life. I realised fairly early on and caught him out as a liar, but from things he told me, I have managed to find him on other sites. He targets older women, who are probably flattered. I can't go into details about the sociopathic personality here, but it would be hard to give the police anything to go by. Even after knowing him 3 months, I'm still not sure which of three names is actually his real one (if any) or have a verifiable address for him. I wanted this question to go into the Mental Health FAQ, rather than "love and Marriage" but obviously it got re-routed!
You are right that the police will do very little unless you have a whole lot more info than you do. Why? They are kept too busy going after other criminals and the internet, while a good source of info to many, has put a whole new slant on criminal activity.
There are a couple of ways you can get around this. If you go on "Google" and type in: Reporting stalking over the Internet" there are several sites that offer some help. You may have to pay for it, so be very careful. Believe it or not you can actually hire a hacker! All hackers are not bad. (Example: The U.S. Army in the approx. 6 years ago had to hire young hackers to find out how other hackers were getting info from the weapons dept.!!!!) That's the truth!
A hacker can perhaps locate this person for you. If you can get enough information on them you might get lucky with the police.
If you aren't willing to do this then you are going to have to back-off. You are in a very dangerous position as I know you realize.
Women especially, should use their brains and not speak to strange men over the internet. There are social clubs you can contact to find a mate and ones that are secure sites. I still would take it as a big risk. To me it is no different than a strange guy pulling up beside you in a car and offering you a ride. I sure as heck wouldn't get in the car not knowing this man. For every successful case of "found love" over the internet there are hundreds of men and women that are really taken for a ride and in some cases murder has even been connected to these internet meetings. People have to be more responsible for the information they give over the web and the police, quite frankly, are rather tired of warning the public. Can't blame them one bit.
You sound very nervous about this man, so unless you can hire that hacker then I would walk away. I sure hope this person is not bothering you????? If they are let us know on the board and I'm sure more than myself will try to find better ways for you to stop this person.
Good luck!
Marcy
What is the link between epistemology and qualitative research?
Both are a means toward ascertaining how people THINK with epistemology looking for the process(es) and "causes" to learning and qualitative research looking, basically, at how well answers on a poll can be trusted or how people reach & divulge conclusions.
Both also involve, necessarily, extensive interviews with test subjects since that is the best method known for examining thoughts in this age.
Both are used in business, advertising, marketing, etc. Actually, psychologists, psychiatrists, and all manner of researchers in matters of thinking are invaluable to business across the board due to an innate need for the ability to figure out what the public wants, needs, likes, will soon like, will like if they know it is available, will like it they hear about it more often, will like if they believe that they are the 1st to have it, will like if they think everyone else has it already, will like at what cost?, etc. Through both of these methods, businesses can gather information on all of these decision-making factors.
Do you have other types of validity of test other than content validity?
Measurement Validity-There's an awful lot of confusion in the methodological literature that stems from the wide variety of labels that are used to describe the validity of measures. I want to make two cases here. First, it's dumb to limit our scope only to the validity of measures. We really want to talk about the validity of any operationalization. That is, any time you translate a concept or construct into a functioning and operating reality (
the operationalization), you need to be concerned about how well you did the translation. This issue is as relevant when we are talking about treatments or programs as it is when we are talking about measures. (In fact, come to think of it, we could also think of
samplingin this way. The population of interest in your study is the "construct" and the sample is your operationalization. If we think of it this way, we are essentially talking about the construct validity of the sampling!). Second, I want to use the term
construct validityto refer to the general case of translating any construct into an operationalization. Let's use all of the other validity terms to reflect different ways you can demonstrate different aspects of construct validity.
In all of these cases, the illusion is created by a special effects technique known as traveling matte or blue screen. This technique allows actors and scale models to find themselves in totally imaginary situations -- in space ships, dangling from rope bridges over gorges, flying through the air (a la Superman) -- and have it look completely real in the theater. The technique is used so often now that you don't even realize it. News reporters are made to look like they are on location when they are not, and complete segments in TV shows can be created this way to make it look like the segment was filmed on location when, in fact, no one left Los Angeles.
What is one characteristic of poor research?
There are several characteristics of poor research. These include major gaps in research, not researching in depth, and misinterpreting information.
Researchers must always use more than one library to gain enough material for a research paper?
false
How do you get background research on cleaning pennies?
google it, bing it, blackle it, or ask a friend you know that has the answer to your question.
What is basic research and applied research and the reference?
Applied research is a type of research that is applied, accessing and using some part of the research communities' (the academy's) accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques, for a specific, often state, commercial, or client driven purpose. Applied research is often opposed to pure research, also known as basic research, in debates about research ideals, programs, and projects.
Although it is impossible to generalize completely, Applied Research deals with practical problems and is generally empirical. Because applied research resides in the messy real world, strict research protocols must often be relaxed. For example, it may be impossible to use a random sample. Thus, transparency in the methodology is critical. Implications for interpretation of results brought about by relaxing a more or less strict cannon of methodology should also be developed.
The OECD's Frascati Manual defines "Applied research" as one of the three forms of research, along with basic research & experimental development.
There are several Aidan Weavers, Myspace, Facebook, a new baby son of a soldier in Iraq. Just type the name into your browser and see which one you mean.
When two or more lines of research begin to converge on a similar result this is referred to as convergent evidence. Convergent research is the designed use of more than one theoretical approach to examine a problem space.
List one benefit and one drawback of using the internet for research?
one of the benefits is:
major marketplace and an important channel of communication
What are the most popular search terms on Pinterest?
The most popular non adult search on pintrest is "facebook"
I guess people are searching facebook pictures a lot on pintrest.
No. If your computer is off it can't run any software. It doesn't really matter if you shut down first or close safari first but some browsers will pop up a message saying the browser didn't close normally last time if you shut down without closing the browser first.
What signaling functions are more limited than those performed by the protocols in the H323 group?
SIP
Research Paper ...
- is a written composition of finding discovered from an investigation made on a subject.
- is a paper written to present information to support a point of view on a particular topic (Berge and Saffioti)
-presents the results of the investigations on a selected topic.
-seeks to answer question about a particular subject by way of offering information and evidence.
