my friend wants to come to my room, but when she does, her local area and her apartment complex name. is there any way she can block this, she refuses to come like it is

Could you at least post a small screen shot of this? It doesn't normally show and is privatized on this network.

You asked about this in #help a few days ago.
Her exact address isn't shown. Everyone's Internet address is provided as a cloaked form. This means that if your internet address was CF24.56.22.11.new.res.rr.com it would appear as privatehost28df.new.res.rr.com
This ^^ is a fake address that prevents someone from finding out their exact IP address.
Your friends ISP has their name of their apartment complex in it, but not her address. Its the same information that can be found in a phone book.
If your friend has had a registered nickname for a time that meets our vhost requirements, she could get a virtual host that displays, but her personal information isn't given out to anyone. They just see the hidden or cloaked address.

i understand that you dont think this is an issue, but to a young single woman, it doesnt feel right to have that info posted everytime she logs into a room here. if the vhost is the only answer, in what ever time limits there is, i think she will go somewhere else because she doesnt feel safe coming here.

That info only shows at her end, of course she is going to see the info. At our end, for channel ops, we only see the hostmask applied by the server. Network personnel see IPs. Thus, when I do a whois on myself, I get to see all the info since it's mine. If she logs in with an IRC client and then uses the flash app, she only see the masked info on the second log in.

Being a channel op, I usually see a mess of numbers and letters, some abbreviation of the city and ISP, and maybe a country code.
We see a variation of this:
StarFortre@privatehost-155606D.dsl.snlo01.sbcglobal.net
If that makes any sense to you, all my best.

If she wants to visit #chris, I can't think of a better place to start. The only way anyone would know if she's single or even female is if she says something. (I keep telling people I'm a starship from the 31st century.)

Welcome to #chris!
Fort

Thanks for the info.

Thank you ^^