When is it not so funny if a chat room member knows your personal information like telephone and address? It is always never funny for a chat room member who knows you by an alias to know what telephone number you have.
How in the world would such a person who is chatting with an alias know your personal information? Obviously, he is getting it from your information file to get an alias to go into a chat room.
I know for a fact that Pogo has allowed chatters who themselves use an alias to access personal information about members. Your alias on Pogo is not a screen to keep your identity private. It is being accessed by whoever is capable of getting into Pogo information site that is filled out by all members.
The fact is that your information in chat rooms is not secret. You may think that you are chatting with an alias, but members on line who have contacts with the site managers are accessing your personal information.
And, the worst part of it is that if you confront those site managers in an email, they can just disregard it or come up with the worst cock and bull story denying it or not addressing it as if they have the right to allow that kind of what I consider to be illegal spreading of personal information to chat rooms members who, of course, insist on the privacy of their information.
When you join a chat room do not give your right name or telephone number.
