If a pm goes straight to your message requests do you take the risk?

All 30 of my unread messages are there.

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ArtieKat · M

I don't think that PMs on here carry the same risks as opening email attachments which may contain a virus.

The site owners responded recently to a request from a member to be able to block any further messages immediately in the message tab. Although some messages may be objectionable - and I know that young women get a particularly hard time on Socials - I can't see how reading messages is going to cause you any lasting damage. According to the saying I learnt as a kid: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"....

iamisa · 18-21, F

@ArtieKat it's not that I would be hurt by reading them, it's more that I trust that when the website sends them to my message requests, those accounts aren't really worth responding to.

ArtieKat · M

@iamisa I haven't found that personally but we're all different, aren't we?

iamisa · 18-21, F

@ArtieKat yeah well if you saw the message previews I get, you would understand

ArtieKat · M

@iamisa I know from friends on here, in the same age cohort as you, the form that many messages take.

Saage · F

@ArtieKat Why would you point out that you can't get a virus from opening a DM on SW lmao! Of all the things that OP could be worried about. 🤣

What does it even mean that reading messages won't cause lasting damage? That isn't a really a good reason to waste time responding to losers lol.

ArtieKat · M

@Saage

That isn't a really a good reason to waste time responding to losers lol.

I didn't actually say anything about responding. I referred only to reading messages.

Saage · F

@ArtieKat Your comment is just so strange on several levels lol.

ArtieKat · M

@Saage Don't waste your precious time in responding to me then! 😂🤣🤗

Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M

@Saage why «losers»??