[EternallySingle]

Call me 'Little Too Cautious', but a couple from Germany wrote me on another site and asked for my phone number, saying they were going to be in the States later this year (didn't say when) and wanted to meet with me. Cool, except they told me nothing about themselves, skirted around my request for a picture first (and I wrote that email in German), and didn't answer my fourth email asking for a little more info (like what they like to eat, what kind of music they like, etc.) when I said I didn't feel comfortable giving my phone number to someone so soon.

Granted, being a single male, I should have a little more courage and not be so concerned about giving my personal info to an axe murderer or pic collector, but from working in telecommunications and information technology most of my life, I know how powerful those 10 digits are. I just want to know if I was a little too cautious by not giving them my phone number and how much information do people want from a person/couple/group they intend to meet before they reveal such information?