The advent of social media has increased avenues of communication from the public to companies and to high-profile individuals. The dark side of this availability is that it can lead to targeted harassment, sometimes of individual employees of companies.

A person who feels disgruntled toward a company may try to identify the professional or personal social media accounts of that company’s employees or executives, rather than the company’s general social media handle, in an effort to target those individuals.

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