Members for a chat

Do you find members signing up seemingly only to have a chat with yourself? On our teen forum we now and then get a member sign up that never bothers to post and they tend to send one of us a PM with something like "Hey hows u?".

Personally, I dont mind these messages myself if they have contributed before but signing up never to become involved and by that I mean make 1 post is quite frustrating, why dont they simply use a chat room or converse with members instead? It would be much better that way

 

Nope... I never seem to have this. It also makes no sense why they would do this
Maybe there is something about teenagers that like to use the PM systems?

 

I've not had people sign up specifically to do this, but I have had people reply to the welcome PM. I just talk to anyone who asks to be honest.

 

We get those. I just ignore them.

But, I do alert our members to watch for creepers who say things like "I'm new here, what's your name, where do you live?" because we also get those.

 

I tend to quite often. I cant believe someone would have the cheek to ask a random person where they live