Your PMI is basically one continuous meeting and you don’t want randos crashing your personal virtual space after the party’s over.

Avoid using your Personal Meeting ID (PMI) to host public events.

ANYONE with the link can join your meeting.

When you share your meeting link on social media or other public forums, that makes your event … extremely public.By default, a Zoom meeting’s link is public and all it takes is someone finding that link in a forum thread or perhaps a Facebook post and now they have access to your meeting.

Thankfully, there are some measures that you can take to prevent your meetings from getting “Zoombombed.” Zoom has published a blog post to share some tips to keep your meetings secure and private in the hopes of keeping unwanted guests standing out in the cold. It’s very sad but alas, very true and with the exponential rise of online meetings as of late, it’s happening more frequently. With the ability to screen share in a meeting room, you can imagine what someone with malicious intent may throw up in a chatroom that’s filled with innocent students going over schoolwork or a group of employees attempting to have a private meeting. “Zoombombing” is the practice of finding links to public Zoom meetings and hopping into the room and sharing all sorts of inappropriate and disruptive content. Unfortunately, as with many things intended for good, there are users out there who are looking to take advantage of the meeting platform for their own, nefarious purposes. Thanks to its low barrier of entry and cross-platform capabilities, the video meeting software has come to the aid of millions in a time where staying digitally connected has become paramount. During this time of social distancing, remote working and homeschooling, Zoom has quickly become one of the most popular teleconferencing platforms in the world.

Zoom using your personal meeting id