can't you just log out when you leave?

Click on the Member Services Page at the bottom of the main page, then click on Log Off.

I sent you an email...I may however have misunderstood your post. If so, please ignore.

Sue...

If you wish to cloak you post, you'll have to resort to using fake names and places. You do have to sign in to chat on this forum - its a rule of its makeup.

Many of us are not using our real names for security reasons, but have created 'handles', same as the old CB days and truckers. Admitdely, some of our handles are cutesy and are readily recognizable by those close to the poster.

Below are some things you could do. However, this will not guarantee that the origin of your chat messages will remain a mystery to the person about whom your are discussing.

1. Create a user name known only to you.

2. Never use the real name of the person being discussed. Create fake names, if necessary, to differentiate between two or more persons in the post.

3. Do not reveal any geographical location clues.

4. Do not reveal the relationship of the person in question to youself, such as DD for dear daughter. It is possible that the person in question is smart and will figure it out anyway based on a unique set of circumstances.

And most of important:
No. 5: Don't do it. This forum is open to the public.

Go to your member page (where you log in) and unclick "Save this information on my computer". That means that it won't automatically sign you in each time you visit the site.

However, you should erase your "history", too, so your DD won't even be able to know the sites you've been to and go browse around them. If I'm reading right, you don't want her to even know to come here, right? Because then she could open the posts and inadvertendly seeing it. You want to have her not even know the site exists.

You have to go to Internet Options and delete cookies and history.

If you want to do it at all, that is, as some have advised against.

Suzieque

Well isn't that silly - I've been hanging around here for years and didn't ever notice that LOG OFF spot at the bottom of the member's page...duh!
Thanks for that, guys.
Suzan J

Suzan in the jarz,

Ain't it nice to learn something new every day?

Keep the old brain active - "use it ... or lose it" applies, I think.

ole joyfu

P.S. If there seems to be something wrong with my username ...

... sometimes I think that I ain't no "l".

o j

sjarz - I'm confused. How will logging off alleviate the chance of your daughter reading your post?

S

If you have it as your home page or if it's in your favorites, she'll see it. You can still read the forums without logging in.

Logging out won't keep anyone from reading the forum. You can set up a separate User Account on your computer so that all of your private information stays private and your guests can access their e-mail and surf the web.

Here is a link that might be useful: Setting up a Guest User Account

Even using a separate A/C, she can read the forum...if she happens to stumble upon it.
I always assume that anything I post here can be read by the whole world.
Not a good place to tell secrets.