There seems to be a bit of confusion regarding Paltalk and it's structure based on a recent comment so I will try and unconfuse those who are confused.
A USERNAME is that of a person who has opened an ACCOUNT with Paltalk. Not all users have ROOMS.
Instant or PRIVATE (or at least they are supposed to be) MESSAGES do not require an ACCOUNT holder to have a ROOM in order to use this feature. You do not even need a PAID account to use the IM feature.
A ROOM name is a separate issue altogether. A user can have a ROOM even if they do not have a paid membership, as far as I know.
A ROOM can also have the same NAME as the account holder as was the case with me until late last year when I changed it
BOTH my USERNAME and my ROOM name were the SAME. I changed the ROOM name from MURTWITNESSONELIVE to MURTHAVEN FLORIDA when I decided to register the room under a plan offered by Paltalk in partnership with Godaddy.com.
Unless I am wrong, one CANNOT use a ROOM NAME to start an IM. ONLY the USERNAME can be used. This means that in order for someone to TAMPER with my im, they had to have my ACCOUNT password or create a variant of my USERNAME close enough to my REAL name that would allow them to use something like PAINT SHOP PRO to alter the template of the pm by removing, in the case of one of the variants, the underscore.
That, I hope should unconfuse the confused, In some cases, I doubt it.
MURT
