Is it good to give your email to strangers?

@mnvamsi (539)
India
July 25, 2009 10:13pm CST
Lot of people ask me for my email address, and I stay away from most of them. Is it good to give your email address to strangers. Any advice so that people don't get angry on me.
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6 responses
• China
26 Jul 09
you should have an email just for strangers, which you can check once in a week. besides, if you donot want to give them your email, you can ask them to give theirs to you, saying that you cannot remember your address. hope it can help
@mnvamsi (539)
• India
26 Jul 09
oh thanks for the info.
@whizkid08 (715)
• India
26 Jul 09
Definitely its not!! Sometimes, it becomes important to give out the email address in order to be updated and to receive critical information. Seldom does it happen, that the email is misused. These days, webmasters gather the IDs to develop a mass mail list and send out spam messages.
@mnvamsi (539)
• India
26 Jul 09
Spam messages is what I'm worried about. Thanks for your comment though.
@maezee (41997)
• United States
26 Jul 09
You shouldn't care if strangers get angry at you for not giving out your email..Who cares what they think?! They are strangers, after all. It's not like they're going to call you and be all mad at you and whatever. If you don't want to talk to someone, then don't give them your contact info. It's as simple as that! I don't think it's WRONG to give out your email to strangers, so long as they're strangers who aren't harrassing you, and are strangers you'd actually like to get to know via email. I would still exercise precaution, though, and make a separate email JUST for the purpose of talking to strangers - and I would make sure my full name isn't on it or any other kind of important information, just in case. T
@mnvamsi (539)
• India
26 Jul 09
Ya thanks for the advice. I'm also planning to create an alternate email though, do you think that a correct approach.
• India
26 Jul 09
my e-mail address to some strangers , no , i will never do this, its a total non-sense things , and you please don't do this for god's shake..have a nice day and happy mylotting
• United States
26 Jul 09
I have two different email addresses. One i use for everything i sign up for online, and woudln't mind particularly giving out to someone i don't want to know if they wanted to contact me. With this address i have very limited personal information associated with it, such as not using my full last name, and not giving a specific address of where i live when i registered for it on line. The other address i have i use for all other, personal correspondance, such as with my family and friends, and business type transactions (such as my paypal, my doctor's office that sends out email reminders of appointments and what not, things that i wouldn't want to acciently delete thinking they were spam.) I think this is a good practice for people who are online a lot, or who are in a position where they get asked for their email address regularly. Then if you do start to actually correspond with someone on a regular basis, you can pass along your other address and ask them to reach you there. Just don't go about opening attatchments and such from people you don't know. That could wind up disasterous.
@mnvamsi (539)
• India
26 Jul 09
Oh that's more than I need, thanks for sharing your suggestions.
• United States
26 Jul 09
It is very dangerous. In my town, there are some strangers that ask my phone number or my email addresses. That really freaks me out because I do not know much about them. I always tell them that I forgot my purse, and I want to go find it, I will come back later. Then I disappear. You can try this way. It can work very well.
@mnvamsi (539)
• India
26 Jul 09
Cool thanks for the tip, but this can sometimes make them angry too.