You just did, Mack. Well done. Welcome aboard.

DS currently doesn't have chat rooms. The open forum discussions are all we get.

I wish this was like texting. So much faster.

Does any of this go to Facebook or any other social media

No, you’re good.

Thanks I was on a site last spring thinking it was safe. I told part of what happened to me and immediately my sister called to ask if I really wanted to put that on Facebook. So now a lot of my family knows something they didn't need to know

I checked out of the social media scene around the time that Twitter became the latest greatest, so I am studiously ignorant of how they work, but. . . There is that ominous string of social links sprinkled throughout the new DS format. Since I haven't played for allot of years, it is no big to me, but still, I protect my anonymity with a user name which is not connected to my real life.

Thanks for the heads up about how somebody out there must have linked that site you thought was safe to social media, BigMack. That's why I think it's good to protect anonymity as arfie says--our own and that of others here. We never know where our posts may go regardless of our own individual intentions.

Anonymity is a big tradition in the original support groups related to AA and Alanon, where they remind us all that it's not only about our own anonymity, but also that of the person next to us by association as well. Some of us may feel perfectly safe and may actually enjoy perfect safety, but that may not be true of the member next to us, so we guard our own anonymity sometimes for their sake, not just our own.

Gratitude for bringing the matter up, Big, food for thought for me again.

I understand about AA and anonymity. Because of being in AA I sometimes put to much in posts. I did that yesterday.