Safety Tips

Meeting someone for the first time

• Meet somewhere public the first time — a park, a court, a busy trail, a coffee shop. Save home addresses for much later, if ever.
• Tell a friend or family member where you're going, who you're meeting, and roughly when you expect to be back. It takes thirty seconds and it's the single most effective thing on this list.
• Drive yourself or arrange your own way there and back, at least until you actually know someone.
• You don't owe anyone a reason to cancel. If something feels off before you've even left the house, it's fine to back out — "something came up" is a complete sentence.
• Trust your instincts once you're there, too. Uncomfortable is a real signal, not something to push through to be polite.

How your location actually works here

• Enabling location shares where an activity is happening — a one-time snapshot, not a live-tracked dot. Nobody can watch you move around.
• Setting an event to Friends only means exactly that, enforced by the database itself — a stranger genuinely cannot see it, not just that the interface hides it from them.
• You can turn location off entirely for any single event when you're creating it, or never turn it on at all — plenty of the app still works without it, you'll just see fewer real distances.

If someone makes you uncomfortable

• Block them from their profile — stops messages, friend requests, and seeing your events, instantly. They're never told.
• Report them from the same page — pick a reason and it goes straight to the app's owner for review. This works whether or not you also block them, and you can do both.
• Neither of these requires the other person to be a friend, or for anything to have gone especially wrong yet — you don't need a big reason to block someone.

Group chats

Group threads are real people, not anonymous chat. Treat them like any conversation with someone you're about to meet — and reporting or blocking works the same way there too.