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Please read
Near the bottom of the page, just above the "ImLive" link banner, in bold print is "Dating Safety"
If you haven't already checked it out, please take a few minutes to do so.
Let me add this to it...if you want to give out an yahoo IM id, or an alternate email address to someone, create seperate "filter" accounts to do so, create new accounts and ID's just for the purpose of being able to filter out the "bad", and making sure only the "good" end up with any of your personal contact information....it's best if you do not use your primary personal email account and IM identities. Creating seperate "filter" account will allow you to control how much information a person you're just getting to know has about you and if things take a bad turn, no loss...You can filter out the bad, threatening or annoying.
If you pass out your primary personal email to someone and you use something like Outlook Express, check your settings and see exactly what info goes out with each email, just someone getting your full name and location can be pretty dangerous, there are way too many ways (simple court records, land deeds, etc...)for someone if hellbent, to find their way to your front door.
There's just too much going on, too many stories headlining the news, people missing, abused, assaulted and ending up dead, because they answered an online ad (craigslist has quickly turned into a virtual victim market for the lowest of criminals, I wouldn't even use craigslist to sell used furniture !!!)
Please read the dating safety link, and please look out and take care of yourselves...
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| December 5, 2007, 20:47 |
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KINKYINTHEFALLS
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wild and wonderful, West Virginia, US
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Re: Please read
Great advice Chazzy, when I first got internet my ISP put my name address and phone # as my signature. I never knew until a friend of mine told me about it. 
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| December 5, 2007, 20:54 |
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Re: Please read
Anyone else have some internet safety tips to share, please do!
We love ya'all, and it would just devastate us if anything should happen to any of you...have fun, have a blast, but keep yourselves safe.
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| December 5, 2007, 20:54 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Great advice. Never give out more personal information than your comfortable with. All one needs now a days, is your first and last name, and the state where you live, to find you. Scary isn't it. 
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| December 6, 2007, 07:59 |
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Re: Please read
I've had my share of unpleasant experiences online. I've been threatened horribly by a complete stranger because I didn't reply quickly enough to his message, I've even talked through a website with someone for almost a year, felt secure enough to give him an alternate email address, and bam...he turned into a whole different person immediately! All of a sudden instead of being a sane, stable intelligent person I thought I knew...he became a very obsessed love sick scary person....
Overall my internet experience has been good, but I've learned to be oh so cautious too.
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| December 6, 2007, 14:51 |
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Re: Please read
I mentioned this once before, pedophiles have been pretty much chased off sites like facebook and myspace and now are frequenting adult personals sites and now search for adults...with children. (Sick!!)
It's best not to even mention the fact that you have children in your profile on an adult site.
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