Do U have any Fear to Share Email With ur Online Friends

Hi Sunny, I have the same experience too. When i am just new here in mylot i received some invitation to have an exchange email address. it made me uncomfortable. i was not able to give mine. but they were so friendly and trusting enough to give me theirs. since the friendship was already built ...there was a development as it relates to the discomfort i had before. it's a matter of time and the friendship that people here was able to establish

I do not check my e-mail that often, although I have been checking it more recently. If I am talking to someone on this site, then I usually can talk with them on the boards or in PMs. I have given my e-mail address to a select few people, but I do not give it out as a rule. I guess it is partly because I am only on here for a short time, and I do not want them to feel like I am ignoring them if they send me an e-mail and I do not reply back to them for days or even weeks. It is not that I am ignoring them but rather I probably have not checked my e-mail and do not realize that I have anything from them. Either that or it got buried in the notifiers from responses to discussions.

I really don't mind about anything on my mail and stuff. After all this time posting here and gaining friends here in the lot there was only one time when I had experience exchanging emails with someone and that was with Mr. Lamb. It was only when I entered the online earning that I became skeptical on sharing my email address

There is no system to know the other persons and so sharing of e-mail may not be advisable. But, in yahoo messenger I have added few friend but some are using filthy language in the chat. That word not only make me feel unhappy. I need good words to chat and I do the same. So, if other person like minded then certainly, I can share my e-mail id with him.

I have seen a lot of reactions, and i think that it only deppends on the person who do the asking. It really makes one feel akward, and for the life of me, i still cannot make up my mind.

Hm well, depends which e-mail. I have several and only one of them I use every day. I thought like you some time before - that it's not a big deal to share your email. But since I had some bad experience at this, now I give some of the emails that I use not so often and are not so important to me.

I've never really understood this either. I only share my phone number or physical mail address with people that I absolutely trust, but email isn't so personal a thing for me. I mean, it's not like they're going to be able to use it to somehow show up at my door! I'm pretty open with my email address when people I talk to often ask for it. I'd rather they have it so they can contact me directly in case one or both of us can't get to whatever site we usually converse on.

Can anyone extract much personal info from emails? I wonder what is the risk there when someone get hold of your email addy. I fear nothing except for spamming. I share some emails with some of my close friends here in mylot and we share a lot of jokes online. It is fun and interesting as we get to communicate outside mylot world.

hi there sunny, nope I dont have a fear in giving my email address but I only give it when asked in private message. i dont give it in public. yes agree with you can always deny any invitation if use as spam. Have a great day and happy mylotting...

it depends on the content of my email,if it something too personal, i just keep it my self but if i think the content of the email will help them or they could find some info from it,i won' hesitate sharing it with my friends online.

I give my ids to my friends. I do not interact with too many people and most of them are very close friends in the offline world. As for friends of mylot, which is the only place I hang around, although I do not know the members very well, I will say "Wait patiently for my email id. It will be coming soon"

i try to give out my email add to people i trust. i also have a lot of backup email addresses and I dont confine mu important matters with just one email address. i try to use different email adds for my banks, bills, social stuff, professional life, etc. that way, it would be harder to compromise my accounts and most expecially,people wont know which email is for which. lol.

i ever join facebook,and i did not know if you did not change the personal file you can see all your friends call and email,and everbody can see yours... one day i receive a email,the email told me i ever sent him many ugly photos,it is about 1000 words,and he did not said who he is ,that made me feel fear,i ever write the email address to any strange website,and i mail to a photo webside please them to cancel my email from member,but until now ,i did not know this mail is a true or just a joke.....

I have 2 emails, 1 for anyone and which I use to sign up for websites and another private one. I keep one private to avoid people spamming me through it and it holds a lot of information like passwords and paypal information in it so I wish to keep it as secure as possible. Its very easy tho to set up a hotmail account so anyone can have a second account they give out to anyone.

I am extremely cautious about who I give my email out to, I use Gmail and I have two Gmail accounts one is personal and one is for business. It was due to social networking sites that I started to get hassled when I gave my email address out and they started using my email address for signing up to dubious sites. Yes I did filter them as spam but sometimes I have to check my spam just in case emails slip through the filter system isn't always 100% trustworthy and I would see these horrid emails so I thought right that does it, I closed all my social networking sites and I changed my email address, it was an inconvenience but I have learnt my lesson. Facebook I won't touch with a bargepole, I had my account hacked into which may also of caused a lot of spam. Sadly I get paranoid now, I have even taken my photo down as my avatar, I used to have my pic as my avatar now I have the wolf cub, far safer. The internet is not always a good tool, it can be a very dangerous one. You can never be too careful. There are security measures sure, but always ways around them too.

Honestly, I would not share my e-mail with my friends. I use it for various things and I don't want them to open every e-mail I have whether it be my newsletter and/or subscription. I know it sounds kind of protective, but it's my space and my place to write, think and respond.

I think the primary reason most people hesitate to share their email address is because of spam. Not so much that they think they will get spam email from the person they share their email address with, but they are afraid that it may be someone that is collecting email addresses to sell them to list makers. Certain unscrupulous people will compile email addresses and then sell the list repeatedly to as many marketers as they can. Once you are on one of these lists, you will get an increasing amount of spam as the list gets passed around to online marketers and it can become quite annoying. I think that's why most people wont' share their personal email with someone until they get to know them somewhat.

I have my personal email and my business email which contains my works and my online income activities. I don't mind sharing my personal email to my friends, but I won't share them my business email and so I don't share my personal email to people I don't really know.