You shouldn't make the perfect be the enemy of the good. You often don't know how much to trust someone. You may well want to chat with people you just met.

You shouldn't make the perfect be the enemy of the good. You often don't know how much to trust someone. You may well want to chat with people you just met. People can also lose their phone or have it stolen. This just provides an additional layer of protection, allowing you to chat with people without revealing what is increasingly linked to your actual identity in some countries.