Do you tell your family background to your online friend?

rarely unless i know this person well and usually i only tell half of the truth as many are having bad intention so to be safe less at all.

hi amyson, it is some what not safe to inform family background to give the online friends,but good and bad also in online friends,mostly i trust online friends,some two or three persons from Telugu community friends moving with me with more affectionately with out any hesitation,i am also doing the same with them,have a nice day

Some people, once I get to know them first...

Once she became my friend even on line, I tell her or him my true identity and as we go along, we share our family backgrounds. trusting someone make better friends.

Hi Amyson, I observed privacy. as much as possible i screened things that i need to share. i am more open as it relates to experience/s that's worth sharing. maybe it's obvious here in mylot how i am vocal with the kind of education my special kids are having right now, my views on family, relationships, career, etc. but those basic information about me and my family---fairly screened!

amyson, These are all deponds upon our own will and wish, we can give gist but certain extense, once you get full confidence about that person than think it over and share it, but should be on safer side always it is good. We should not allow one should take advantage with us.

I talk about my family in general conversations to my friends on line, but I don't speak of private family matters. - Derek

Well, it all depends.. If i known that person for a certain period of time, i will start to share my family details along with them.. BUt not too much though.. haha =D There are times, whereby we do feel comfortable with that particular someone, but still, prviacy is needed at some stages, in order to protect ourself or our family?? hehe ^_^ BUt in terms of identity, i dun see the need to hide, for it's supposed to be opened, since we are out to make frenz ^_^

My identity, as in real name, I do use, since it is my writing byline. Family life and personal life, I will tell general details, but not private things and not my phone number, address, or things like that. Karen

Hiya amyson, Not even the tip of the iceberg do I tell anyone really I don´t. I might make the odd comment here and there but nothing that is of importance to anyone just remarks that don´t mean a thing. Not my style to tell everyone about myself.

Just like you~

I tell most of the good ones. The not so good ones are best kept in private. Usually i happen to disclose some of my family background when you post to a discussion which is somewhat related to your real life. You can't really help it sometimes especially when you are citing examples. But of course, you only disclose things that you are comfortable sharing.

No i don't because i want to put limits to the information i share online about myself because i want to keep my privacy. Besides there are scams in the internet and in other countries there are facebook members who were victimized by scams.

Sometimes I do, but at other times, no. Very often though, I share my family background as I see nothing wrong with it. However, as there are loonies and crazies out there especially in chat rooms, I sometimes pretend to be someone who I'm not, just for the fun of it.

I don't have anything to hide in my background, its generic enough to tell - but I don't tell most people my identity

Nope, not right away. It's quite different to share offline information to an online friend. There has to be a deeper connection somehow or maybe the online friends have become close enough to be able to talk about their daily lives or anything under the sun. This would require time for the friendship to grow. When that is already established there would be a form of trust between the friends that even offline vital information are mentioned all the while exercising caution that this information will not be leaked through anything. Of course this trust and friendship might possibly go beyond being online and thus move forward into being an offline friendship. Maybe keeping in touch through phones or mobile messages. Eventually, it would be inevitable for these friends to meet in person even just once in their lifetimes.

Hi amyson! I do not give all of my personal identity online, but I do discuss things about my family in that happened to me during my life. That is part of the discussions that we do have here at myLot. We discuss things that have happened to us in our life and sometimes we do discuss personal family matters. It is ok to do this because no one knows exactly who we are or where we live. I feel very comfortable discussing these kinds of things with my friends here! And it does help me and others to get help with our problems too~

I don't mind telling my family background to my online friend if it is a part of the discussion in Mylot. I don't tell my true family background to somebody I meet in an online chatting room. Even if I write my true opinions on various discussions stating my family background, I try to keep the privacy of my family. Good discussion.

Yes. But not so soon. And it takes a lot of risk in life to to do such a thing. But I will tell about my family and things, but never give my phone number or address or any other contact details. I usually dont chat too much to people online, but when i do, I make sure that I know everything about them. So inorder to know them, you have to introduce yourselves to them. But that doesnt mean you have to tell all your secrets.

No, i don't give family background like names where they live and where do they work to my online friends. I guess we all need to take precautions, nowadays, it is really hard to trust someone we don't know or see in real person.