I just have a random question, if you just met somebody online and I guess you make friends with them when they suddenly ask What's your birthday, Where do you live, What's your phone number, What's you sn, What's you email address. Would you be alarmed that after 15 minutes this particular person wants all this information about you? Well in my case, it is a 14 year old boy from Latin America. So, my question is that do u think I would be safe giving this information, and should I be alarmed he wants to get to know me so fast.

YES. Generally when you first start talking to someone online, the only question they will ask is A/S/L(Age,Sex,Location). If they start asking you other,more personal questions, then cut off contact immediatley.

This person could be a stalker, killer, or cop.

If they don't ask your personal questions and only ask for you a/s/l. Only tell them your Age and maybe what country you live in. If they continiously bug you about your sex then don't talk to them.

This is what I would do, not necessarily telling others to do this, but it's only safer.

I have chatted with this guy during my free time and he is from the States ( i wont tell where) And well, he was so nice to talk to and i feel like i could open to him more than with my friends here in school... I dont really know why but well, we got to know each other through chat and then email and this happened last August 2003 and its been a year now and we still write emails to each other...almost everyday. I could say, he is one of my bestfriends for i could talk to him about anything, like we tell stories of our families, our country and pets or books or just about anything. And he gave me good advices too and he even told me he is proud of me whenever i tell him i passed my exams!
Anyway, its all up to you in the end... just make sure that you get into a nice conversation first.. something that is not dirty or obscene or rude and after you have decided that he or she is worth being a friend, then you can give your email address or whatever information you want to give as long as it isnt too personal. Just be careful who you give it to as there are lots of liars online. If you are not comfortable then dont volunteer any information. Very personal information can be given only if you and that person have exchaged a lot of emails already or maybe you have been emailing for a year like me and my friend!

i think that there is nothing bad in asking about ur age sex or country/city as long as that person dont jump to ur exact location like ur home adress street adress ur collage and phone no and all that stuff but as long as its only ur age sex and the country or city i guess thats pretty much normal we r all humans and like all humans we r all curious to know who is on the other side so i guess no one can use ur name date of birth or country name against u well as long as girls r concerned i guess thoer point of objection must be age thingy he he he he like girls may not tell them age coz after few years when girls will hide away thier wrinkles with creams there then they might have a drawback factor of telling thier age at that time to particular person
get the point? he he he he

Ditto to what "shortchick" said!

No, you're not being paranoid at all. Some dude looked up my e-mail address, found my name, phone number, house address, what school I went too, my Dad's number, all of this crap. He CALLED me, went to MY school, went to MY house and stalked me. This all happened because of a forward and a message at the bottom that said what school we went too.

Same with my friend, some dude said he was a 13 year old girl and he was actually 55, 200 pounds and went to jail for rapping a girl and was out of jail. He called her and showed up at her door. She gave him no info.

Just lie. Some dude asked for my number and I just blocked him. People can look up a ton of crap with a phone number and an area code.

I'm seriously not trying to scare you, but you have to be careful.
-Sunset

dont give your info to anyone. your email or AIM is enough. us latinos are violent.

Never ever give anyone personal information online. Also, remember that you don't know anyone just by talking to them on line. For example Marine16 (I didn't want to use me as an example, so I figured I use him just for fun) could be a 76 year old ***** old dude trying to talk to young girls for all we know. I'm not saying that he is, but you never know. lol

hell no

the cardinal rule like everyone already said is never give out your phone number and exact state or town to the person if he gets serious..
the net is the last place you could afford to trust ppl though we really wish we could...
i have serious penpals from slovenia and pakistan..
it takes a while to build up your trust , but once that is sone its great fun having a friends across the seas...
a lot of my friends watch movies with their chat freinds..but more often than not, they turn out to be real weirdos..
there are a lot of middle aged pervert minded men prowling the net, so beware..
the other day a freind of mine was chatting and the f=guy swicthed of his web cam and came back stark naked and swtihed it on.....

umm.. well 4 me it was ok..

coz 1 time i had a friend in chat.. well i kinda know he's 4 real cos he goes 2 a school i knew, and i have sources there.. and we met up, and it was cool..


but im in d philippines by d way..maybe its different there..

Definitely don't give out your phone number. It's fine to tell what state you live in, and even your city if it's big. Just be sure to not ever mention what school you go to, etc. if you plan on staying "friends" with him, because it's possible he's not from Latin America.
Another possibility: He could be another kid just like you, thinking you're a psycho stalker, and he's using his "fake identity" for the same reason you would.
Of course, there's always a chance that it IS a stalker, so you have to use your judgement.

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Am I being to paranoid about this?

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Oh no, it's better that you're concerned about it, or else you would probably be giving away a to much information. I was being a bit paranoid by saying he might try to find out where you live and come visit you, or try to hurt you. That rarely happends, and chances are the boy was just trying to make conversation. You should be able to tell him the state you live in with no problem, but never the phone number.

well this is how it happened, I went into this online game and i was playing with a bunch of people, and he was on the same team as me, he started talking to me and I thought he was nice, then he invited me to this private game where it was only me and him in the game then thats when he started asking me all these questions, I didnt even answer to his phone number question, I told him I lived in eastern Us, I made up my birthday, and I gave him an email address I rarely ever check. Am I being too paranoid about this?

My theory is that it's he's not 14, and he probably want's the information so he can find out where you live. It happend to my friend. The guy actually had the nerve to come to her soccer practice, and stalk her. But he's besides the point.

I meen, how can you become friends with him in 15 minutes any ways? If you want to be polite I would just make up your idenity. I used to do that, and say I lived in Alaska. But then after a while, I realized that nothing bad can really happen if I say I live in Maryland.