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Advertising Using an Individuals Network of Friends ~Companies can use social networking Web sites to advertise to an individuals network of contacts.
Viral Marketing
Encourages individuals to pass along a marketing message to others, thus creating the potential for exponential growth in the messages exposure and influence as one person tells two people, each of those two people tell two or three more people, and so on.
Detailed Set of Recommended Actions for Combating Cyberstalking by The National Center for Victims of Crime
When the offender is known, victims should send the stalker a written notice that their contact is unwanted and that all further contact must cease. Evidence of all contacts should be saved. Victims of cyberstalking should inform their ISP provider as well as the stalkers ISP, if possible. Victims should consider speaking to law enforcement officers. Above all else, victims of cyberstalking should never agree to meet with the stalker to talk things out.32
ONLINEVIRTUALWORLDS
A computer-simulated world in which a visitor can move in three-dimensional space, communicate and interact with other visitors, and manipulate elements of the simulated world. A visitor to a virtual world represents him- or herself through an avatar , a character usually in the form of a human but sometimes in some other form.
ONLINEVIRTUALWORLDS
Crime in Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds raise many interesting questions regarding what is a criminal act and whether law enforcementreal or virtual should get involved in acts that occur in virtual worlds.