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I joined the forum after reading an article and at the bottom I saw the forum on it. I thought it might be a nice way to meet local people or at least talk to local people. Then I read where your email is your name on here and I am displeased with this. I have never been a member of a forum so willing to give out so much information on people with email included. That is wrong, and it dont go by what the rules say either. My husband was going to join too and I told him not to because his email was going to be his user name and his email is his complete name for business reasons. I have never seen a forum allow everyone on the site to know others email addresses or even worse not to allow people to create a user id. While I was signing on I kept waiting to see where it asked me my user id which would have been GTO4ever like on some other forums but instead it just threw me in here with my email showing up to everyone. I went back to the rules and it guarantes privacy for members but allowing all the members to see my email address is not privacy it is an invasion of privacy. Does anyone else agree? Today is my first and may be my last Frowner
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I apprecaite the aid Phoenix Rising, but I looked and could not see where I could change my name. My problem was mostly with my husband becoming a member because it would show his full name. I am not meaning that anyone is giong to come after us but for business and privacy I just didnot see why this forum did this. All others allow people to have a nickname and most encourage it.
The same happened to me at the start. I had signed up long ago just to be able to read articles , didn't have any idea I would someday post on a forum.
When I first replied to an article on "start of join a discussion on this article", it didn't ask me for anything. When the post came out it was the old e-mail address that I had given. Since I got a couple of people replying, I just decided to keep it.
I suggest you always get an internet e-mail address to give to any site that ask for your e-mail address that dosn't have any real reason to know it. That way, you can go sign in once a month and click "delete all".
Saves a lot of time in your regular account.
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Originally posted by GTO4ever:
I joined the forum after reading an article and at the bottom I saw the forum on it. I thought it might be a nice way to meet local people or at least talk to local people. Then I read where your email is your name on here and I am displeased with this. I have never been a member of a forum so willing to give out so much information on people with email included. That is wrong, and it dont go by what the rules say either. My husband was going to join too and I told him not to because his email was going to be his user name and his email is his complete name for business reasons. I have never seen a forum allow everyone on the site to know others email addresses or even worse not to allow people to create a user id. While I was signing on I kept waiting to see where it asked me my user id which would have been GTO4ever like on some other forums but instead it just threw me in here with my email showing up to everyone. I went back to the rules and it guarantes privacy for members but allowing all the members to see my email address is not privacy it is an invasion of privacy. Does anyone else agree? Today is my first and may be my last Frowner

I thought the same thing,but,all you have to do is go into your personals & change your user name.Your email address will be on your profile,but,you might have a choice to not add that.The only time you should use your email address is when you log into the forums. Hope this helps keep you in!!!!........

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