Yes, as Corny says, if it's consensual this sharing, there will be people mutually exchanging personal info. Indeed, some of us met each other RL already (the NOLA II gathering in 2003, for one). I can tell you what Corny looks like for a price -- although I believe there's pictoral evidence around here somewhere. *S*.

As Onions, I've never had any difficulties. (I think it's the leopard my avatar accompanies.) I've flirted, but it's been consensual, and the flirtees to date (two of them, actually) don't just jump in and get rude... signals are sent and everything has been at least GP-rated to this point in time. After all, this is not a dating site. (The only really bad time Onions ever had was back on the old AS when someone took my avatar's skin coloring in a nasty racial way -- I am pleased to say that this has never happened on AW, and if it ever does it gets reported in a heartbeat. I was new then...)

Under other clothing, I've had "interesting times". The one situation made me uncomfortable, but I understood the context (which I won't explain here). The other was within context of roleplay, and while this incident didn't happen at this site, it is important to consider here as well: The roleplay did involve activities of sexual nature (descriptively-offscreen) which were discussed by players before we wrote the posts, especially as to how 1) the situations advanced the story and 2) how it brought out personality. Another person joined, and it was evident from his/her posts that s/he just wanted to post the salacious bits. I was very uncomfortable with this, and so were the rest of the participants. We finally just ignored the other person when it was apparent what was going on -- which didn't take all that long. (This is the short version of the story, but it gets the point across.)

Anyhow, the thing is, there ARE sites set up for stuff like that. Myspace and Facebook are dating sites to some degree... but still, even there, watch your flirting/cybering. And in any case, you have no guarantee whatsoever that your flirtee is above the legal age of consent -- unless you've actually met them and can make a good assumption from that!

(Not that you should meet them until you have good assurances that it is gonna be a safe environment, and etc., etc., etc.)