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Leonardo -> RE: Giving out your phone number (9/19/2006 9:46:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
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ORIGINAL: Leonardo
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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross
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ORIGINAL: Dnomyar
A little different question. why would a woman give out her number on the net to a perfect stranger. If she met that same person on the street and he asked her for it she would say no.
That's not necessarily true. I've given my number out to people I've just met online for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it felt right to me. And so far, it's been fine.
I'll also say- I don't have a landline, all I have is my cell.
In today's society, we're all so afraid of our own shadows. I hand out business cards with MY (not some corporate office) phone number on it all the time. I publicly advertise my phone number (oh, look.... it's even in the phone book).
Leonardo
You may not be so nonchalant about it if you were a single woman or even a single mom and meeting people on alternative sexuality sites.. just an observation, although I might be wrong and you would hand it out to every man with a flogger in a 100 miles radius.. I certainly wouldn't. But I do agree that we can take it too far
Well, at least giving out the phone number to a man in here, there is a good chance that you'd know he has a flogger. When you go shopping at a store, you even give your driver's license to a cashier you don't know... you give your credit card to a McD's employee... you give your telephone number to the Wally World cashier... along with your name, and driver's license info when you write a check, etc.
There's folks in here so afraid of their own shadows that they're afraid to post their pics even in here... as if they were some famous celebrity or something that doesn't want the paparazzi to see their pic in oooo collarme... heaven forbid. Or maybe it's like this one woman I knew who got all upset because I took her picture (along with everyone else in the group) while coming out of a liquor store and she was so scared that her church would find out that she was a lush.
Returning to the telephone topic, though... it would be safe to surmise that some of the folks I have given my phone number to engage in 'deviant sexual behavior' of some sort or another. And I have had some bothersome telephone calls made to me in the past... mostly from telemarketers and politicians (they have your number, as well and the 'do not call list doesn't work for local telemarketers, including politicians), who are pretty aggravating. When you quickly hit them with a criminal or civil harassment action, it usually takes care of the problem. If a person is afraid of being seen or afraid of running into a nut case, then maybe it's best to stay hidden behind the computer (oh, no, even so, you aren't hidden since these days you can be found if a person wants to go through the trouble and expense). Perhaps ya'll need to constantly look over your shoulder to be sure you aren't being followed on the way home from the mall or the supermarket and even then you can't be sure someone is not watching you.
I'm not going to sacrifice my quality of life by being afraid of my own shadow... even if I display deviant sexual behaviors since I get bored with the missionary position.
Leonardo
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