Thoughts about Skype Names becoming a part of a member's profile

Not sure Skype would help membership but it would help members who wanted to have more personal contact.

Nick

I love Skype! It's one of my best tools for connecting with people.

Skype Names becoming a part of a member's profile! Newe good feature!!

@thorax11 if Wincer does add it then i am sure that you will have the option to use it or not as you wish.

Skype is a great tool for communicating, but it can be easily abused . I agree with Oldbuddy, a simple click will delete the offending spammer forever. I like think it should be optional in the profile settings. At least you have a choice whether to use it or not.

@bj I'm in Eastern Time, I will be available tonight after 11h00 PM or tomorrow at different moments it's 12h16 PM right now

@Louise Venison you must give your id no matter where you are on the internet and yes you need to use the same id all the time as that is the way to brand yourself (I have used the same id for over 12 years)- however this is exactly why you must use a different password for every site you have an account with. - if you use the same password and you join something that turns out to be bad so you leave or it closes suddenly - then they have your id and the password you

@philippe contact me on skype and i will go through your set up with you. id Bjantiques.

@bj I use Skype I don't receive useless calls because I don't reveal my username nevertheless I'm interested in the information about the setup you were talking about in response to Paula

already i join in skype.

Yes, that all makes sense. I do use secure passwords for anything I'm bothered about (although it really irritates me when banks give you the login details for your online banking, and you know you could create something much more secure than that). But I share my IDs with everyone I come across. Actually, I use the same ID everywhere if I can, and anyone who knows me (including the 30,000+ members of HitsBoosterPro) knows it. I want to make sure I'm easy to find online, so if sharing my ID

you should not give your password to anyone unless they are someone you really know and trust for example my clients trust me to have access to various things so I can help them in correcting errors looking for problems that need solving and so on. But they would not give it to anyone else.

The thing is about people you do not know having your ID and passwords. You shouldn't be giving them out except to people you know and trust. In other words getting to know someone on the site and wanting to contact them go ahead, just posting it for public consumption where anyone and everyone has access to them, no.

anyone can know your id - id they didn't then how would they know who they are communicating with. Do not get paranoid about this.

You can reduce the chances of a hacker getting into your accounts (any accounts i mean) if you use your head and create difficult passwords.
examples are
@$Mo%wW1P3!tb3loB59D
NSRMBAquCO@a6teKywoz
I!IZNgz%34u3p#5BrGys.

What do they have in common?
capital letters small letters numbers and characters

these are 20 long although you can in m

So you're saying anyone who knows your ID for anything can access your account IF they can find out your password. But if you want to communicate with people through a particular method, you have to share your ID. Am I still missing something?

It's like your email address and your password, they can gain access to your account and hijack it. There was quite a lot of that going on a few years ago with Yahoo messenger. Hijackers taking over people's accounts and using them to send spam, scams and viruses to everyone on that contact list.

All they need is your ID to hijack your account, take it over AND lock YOU out of your own account. Those friends and contact now respond to messages supposedly from you being sent by scammers and

What's the link between passwords and IM IDs? Sorry if I'm being a bit thick here, but I can't see it.

I have been using Skype in personal and business for a number of years... couldn't live or work without it.

J

Thanks for the compliment Cheryl yes I use crazy passwords but although they are it is not 100% guarantee but it will take a lot of time and effort to crack them.

Yes you do have to accept but I also don't want 3 dozen contact requests cluttering up my conversation box. I am not a fan of posting IM IDs on social networks. Possibly because my field is identity theft risk management. And plastering that information all over the place accessible to anyone is a risky practice.

There are programs out there that are designed to identify passwords and I'm pretty mush positive that no one on this site with exception perhaps of Bill Brown has a password of s