Alternative/burn phones and numbers
georgmicrodong
Just a fat, creepy old pervert.
For those of you who do *not* use a burn phone, or a service such as Google Voice, to communicate with dancers, escorts, etc, why not?
Is it just that you didn't know such things were available, or some other reason?
Is it just that you didn't know such things were available, or some other reason?
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I have not used other numbers because I have not had any serious problems
I have their's as well.
I also tend to stay away from particularly volatile strippers and exchange numbers once we're both comfortable the other isn't a complete and total psysco. Which may have something to do with why it hasn't been an issue, but definitively relates to why its less of a concern for me.
Finally, I'm a relatively young single guy without many of the concerns that drive most to use such solutions. I get NSFW emails/texts from male/female friends all the time, the odd one from a stripper doesn't stand out and won't cause my any grief. I suppose there are some incremental safety hazards associated with giving out my real number to unsavory characters, but I don't see them as being significant.
I know its "well documented" why folks chose to use those services, but I'm curious - why do you? Maybe I'm missing something any should start...
I don't have a wife or SO whom I need to hide my activities from, and I've never had any major problems with strippers calling or texting or emailing me. If a stripper wants to text me and beg me to come to the club or to lend her money to get her boyfriend out of jail, that's OK with me. I reply or ignore them as I wish. None of the girls have harassed me.
I wrote an article about GV while ago which contains more detail, but the bottom line is convenience. It allows me to easily screen and block calls, and it lets me turn it off entirely when it's appropriate to do so.
It is *not* about security; any service that needs your real phone number to which to deliver texts and calls is not secure. I use a burn phone that is unconnected to any part of my "real" identity to better preserve that.
And don't get me started 'bout some of the craziest TUSCL posters. Yep...you know who you are. The mean crazy not the socially acceptable PL crazy.
I didn't call her. :)
Although I did have one dancer call me at 1 am. She didn't know my work schedule. I just met her. and she asked for my number. You can say we hit things off well.
If I really have a problem getting rid of a dancer I know by example how to get rid of her. Keep talking about doing away with her rights. Change the law. Make it that she can not defend herself if she wanted to even if criminals are armed. Be persistent. Then add in other crap. Keep saying ban all condoms and that protection is not needed. Pass a law banning anything that protects people.
While that's not why I use Google Voice, that *is* one of the reasons why I use a phone number not connected to my name. There is no way I want to make it that absurdly easy for a dancer to find out who I really am.
Who knows, she could have a boyfriend who is into theft big time. She gets the numbers of new guys. He gets their name from the phone number. She finds out if he lives alone. Ka ching, robbed after she texts him that the guy is coming to the strip club and he just arrived.
So I use my home phone for 99% of my needs. That would include strippers as I also don't have to answer to anyone.
I could get a burn phone, but I'd have to hide it somewhere where it could never be found by wife or kid. There would be long times between uses. And I worry about Google--it seems every time I turn around, they are linking together all of the Google platforms. So when I use Google for other uses, work, etc., I don't want this secret Google Voice identity popping up. I can't have any clues appearing when I least expect it.