Protecting your identity from the people you meet socially while allowing them to easily contact you seems like a contradiction in terms. But it’s a necessity if you’re going to date and have an active personal life. Remaining reachable is easy. To do so while maintaining your privacy – literally by hiding in plain sight – is harder, but not impossible. Privacy and personal safety go hand-in-hand, so the question becomes “How do you give people contact information without being tracked down?”
If you’re wondering why you would want to give your contact information to strangers; well there are several reasons. You date, go to parties, attend weddings, and meet people that you want to see again. You buy and sell things. You may want to sell your car, buy a car, sell textbooks, or other things that require you to contact people, and for them to contact you.
Do you want to give your contact information to these people? To someone you just met, or to someone who is no more than a voice on the phone? No, of course not. Using the techniques in this article you no longer have to reveal your main phone number or main e-mail address.
Use A Free E-Mail Account
To acquire and maintain a totally separate and private e-mail account you will use a free e-mail provider like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. To create your free account is a matter of a minute or two. These free accounts are a fantastic way to hide your main e-mail account and still be able to stay in touch privately.
Further, no one can say, “Well, she uses such and such for her email so she must live in this or that town.” No, with a national provider like those mentioned above, you could be anywhere on the planet.
Now when you meet someone that you want to see again, give that person your free e-mail address. You can easily be contacted to arrange a meeting out in public. No one will be coming to your home to pick you up. But what about a phone call, you say? Read on, we’ve got you covered there, too.
Use A Cheap Cell Phone
Obtain an inexpensive prepaid cell phone. How cheap? Ten dollars; add a few bucks for some air time, and you have a secondary telephone that protects your from giving out your primary phone number. This works great. Though inexpensive, these phones come with an impressive list of features. Chief among them is voice mail. So, when your new friend calls he or she can simply leave you a message. When you get around to answering your voice mail, you call
back – on your cheap phone of course.
For additional security, when you buy your cheap phone, pay cash. Don’t use a credit card. And there is no need for you to carry this phone around with you. Leave it home and check it whenever you want.
Should you choose to not get back to someone, so what? There is no way to trace you. Even if this person has the means to run down your phone, it was paid for in cash, so the trail ends there. This is much better, and far safer, than giving away a cell number that you carry and use all the time, is it not?
You stay safe, behind an untraceable e-mail address and an untraceable cell phone. Be well, and be safe.