Signs You Are Being Stalked By A Narcissistic Troll (Or A Narcissist) On Social Media

Below, are some of the signs I discerned that I was being stalked by one or more narcissistic trolls or narcissists.

Signs You Are Being Stalked By A Narcissistic Troll (Or A Narcissist) On Social Media

• The troll usually responds to your posts to disagree, antagonize, and/or draw you into a public debate.
• The troll is usually triggered by your posts and takes to your platform to air out their personal grievances against you, but if you are discerning what is happening, you realize their grievances are really not about you. The troll is projecting.
• The troll will upstage you or discredit your information based on their idea of expertise. Then they will proceed to correct what they view as inaccuracies regarding your information or they will question events about your life to insinuate that you are lying.
• The troll will immediately hit you up in your DMs after liking less than a handful of your tweets.
• The troll will ignore your requests not to DM you. (Sometimes a person will forget to check your bio for these types of requests, but any issues should be cleared up with a simple explanation. Beware if the person continues to push your boundaries by continuing to DM you long after you both have addressed the boundary.)
• If you do accept DMs, the troll will monitor and stalk your account. Anytime that you appear online, the troll will send you a DM. If you do not mind talking to the troll, then no problem, but over time, the troll becomes relentless in their pursuit of you to monopolize your time.
• Often, DMs are an open door to narcissistic abuse even if subtle. The troll will hide behind their communications with you all while setting you up for a future attack. In my experience, this tactic never fails.
• The troll will create havoc on your public page by starting drama with others. The others they begin drama with are people they have most likely followed to your page. So there is already history there. Decide what you will do to have peace on your space.
• The troll will publicly out another follower on your platform as a narcissist or rail accusatory remarks against them in an effort to make you block them or “be an advocate for the abused” which is supposed to be the troll because they immediately play the victim.
• The troll will probably have multiple accounts from which to harass you and other people.
• The troll will talk about and attack other platforms by name via your platform. (Often people are unaware that they do this because they often use others as examples. However, this becomes a problem if it continues because it spreads discord especially if you follow the accounts of which the troll speaks.)
• The troll exposes themselves. ALWAYS!!!!!! (The troll always exposes their narcissistic traits on their own. You usually do not even have to say anything. Over a short amount of time, the troll reveals themselves to be a toxic individual or a full-blown narcissist.)
• You might feel the need to defend yourself against a troll because of their arguments, accusations, and annoying behaviors. Defending yourself may lead to further issues with the troll. It is up to you to shut them down and be done with them.
• The troll will most likely track your patterns of tweeting on your platform to stalk you. (The troll most likely receives notifications every time you post so that they can like, comment, and/or bring sabotage to your page. The troll might even tell you they are your number one fan. The troll will also flood your DMs with their craziness when they know you are online If you are tweeting but not responding to their DMs, look forward to them railing, guilt-tripping, and ridiculing you for not taking time for them.)
• The troll is often a narcissist who lacks empathy and the human decency of concern for you or others. You will definitely know this based on what they post or how they respond to you. (The troll never respects your time and does not consider that you have a life outside of social media. Any excuse on your part as to why you might not immediately respond to their posts or DMs will render you as the abuser. Beware. I suggest taking screenshots of your conversations with them if you must. Also, mute them or block them and/or even report them to Twitter if their harassment becomes out of control. These are the types of people that wreak havoc, spread lies, and cause damage to any good you are attempting to do on your platform.)

Protect Yourself From Narcissistic Trolls

Protect yourself from narcissistic trolls. Trust your gut instincts. If something feels off about communication with someone, then that indeed means something is off. You do not owe trolls any of your time, and you certainly do not owe an explanation for cutting trolls off from contact. Although you cannot control how others behave, you can stop them from misbehaving on your platform. If need be, lock down your own page from future possibilities of troll attacks, and/or report trolls to Twitter because there is a high probability that these trolls already have a pattern of stalking behaviors against others too.

P.S. Just like a narcissist likes to hoover, watch out, because the troll likes to hoover too. Protect yourself, and protect your peace.

Up next, I break down each of the bullet points above based on my personal experiences with narcissistic trolls on social media.