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karadinart) wrote2013-03-13 08:04 pm
karadinart) wrote2013-03-13 08:04 pm
So far out of bounds it's not even funny - Benedict Cumberbatch cyberstalked
a neighbour was live-tweeting his movements in his London home.
“I would say that it was the strangest fan experience that I’ve ever had, I had someone live tweeting my movements while I was in my own house.“It was such a strange and a direct thing to see these tweets saying what I was doing as I was doing them. I found it really worrying, and, yes, of course, very hard to deal with. I worked out after a while who it was who was doing it so, when it came to it, I didn’t actually call in the police, but I was prepared to do so.
“I’m not going to say any more about it. The person concerned knows now what I felt about it. I just found it very hard to come to terms with the idea that an individual could look into my house like this, and talk about me online, and think it is a perfectly okay thing to do.
“The sad thing is I don’t really have anonymity any more in the UK as it has got just like it is in America,” he says. “Here I get stopped quite a lot now. Sometimes it is bearable and sometimes it isn’t.”
This is incredibly creepy, and so out of bounds, I remember when actress Rebecca Schaeffer was stalked by a fan (and killed) and I’m always afraid for anyone in the public eye these days.
“I would say that it was the strangest fan experience that I’ve ever had, I had someone live tweeting my movements while I was in my own house.“It was such a strange and a direct thing to see these tweets saying what I was doing as I was doing them. I found it really worrying, and, yes, of course, very hard to deal with. I worked out after a while who it was who was doing it so, when it came to it, I didn’t actually call in the police, but I was prepared to do so.
“I’m not going to say any more about it. The person concerned knows now what I felt about it. I just found it very hard to come to terms with the idea that an individual could look into my house like this, and talk about me online, and think it is a perfectly okay thing to do.
“The sad thing is I don’t really have anonymity any more in the UK as it has got just like it is in America,” he says. “Here I get stopped quite a lot now. Sometimes it is bearable and sometimes it isn’t.”
This is incredibly creepy, and so out of bounds, I remember when actress Rebecca Schaeffer was stalked by a fan (and killed) and I’m always afraid for anyone in the public eye these days.
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