I agree that you must be very careful on the Net not to reveal much about yourself. The exception to this, however, I find are the genealogy sites. I suppose stalkers find these sites too unexciting to bother monitoring! ;-) Once we make a family connection on the Net, it becomes necessary to exchange such info. I have found 11 "cousins" so far on the Net, all searching the same BAKER family lline, none of whom had I even heard of before! Even more uncanny is their sending me my late mother's letters and research of 40+ years ago, info that they had found in genealogical libraries in VA. and KY. I have arranged to meet several of them, a delightful experience, and am attending a 29th. annual reunion this Sunday where I shall meet many more, a reunion I knew nothing about till I met my Net cousins! The Net has enabled me to increase my BAKER family tree to more than 1,000 names, and I am adding more daily. Regarding email names, some of us are stuck using our real names! That is the type of address that everyone gets at my university. Possibly a bigger danger on the Net is the posting of family trees that include living people. All a scam artist needs in order to steal your identity and take out credit in your name is your name, your birth date and usually your mother's maiden name, items easily obtainable from family trees. Exxxxxxx! ;-) Kaspar by way of Genealogy Records Service wrote: > Found this little snippet in a magazine this evening and thought it might be > useful information, especially for those of us who have children using the > Internet: > > PROTECTING YOURSELF ON-LINE > > Don't reveal personal information, such as your home or work phone number or > address, to anyone you meet on-line. Dont divulge where you work. Withhold > your last name, especially if it's uncommon. "Remember, most stalkers get > their information from you," says CyberAngels' Colin Gabriel Hatcher..... >