Why are members hesitant in providing geographical locations ?
There is no indication what languages are spoken if not Spanish or English.
12 Answers
You can and should post a country of origin and fluency level in Spanish and English on your profile. It helps other people to help you.
At first, I was reluctant to fill in this information because of privacy concerns. Once people pointed out the benefits to me, I added the information.
Plus, now that I know where people live, I think it's cool that I have friends all over the world.
I too had concerns about privacy. However, if you use a nickname (as most of us do) there isn't much chance that someone is going to do anything with the info we post here IMO. Knowing your city & country doesn't really tell anyone much in regard to security issues.
I like to know where someone is located (city/country) when I am communicating with them on here. It makes it a little more interesting! 
I beleive some people are just simply paranoid. 
I would like to make a point here and I don't mean to sound insulting but Sinthu, you said this:
when someone answers the question then you will know fi they are spanish or english because of the language they reply in
My first impression is that you are not a native English speaker due to your lack of proper capitalization and punctuation ( we can overlook the fi typo ) but it is apparent that you are by your argument of the matter. I sometimes answer or ask questions in Spanish but I am not a Spanish native or even knowledgable enough to be sure they are correct but if you are at my level in learning I doubt you would see any mistakes so how are you to know? In my case it is easy, look at my profile. We do ask that everyone do this but for some reason many people are afraid to show their origin. Just because this site teaches either Spanish or English tells you absolutely nothing about the native languages of the membership. I know and speak to a number of people from the Mediterranean and the Middle East who can write with perfect English but are still learning both languages so where is your logic? Again, please don't misconstrue this reply as anything other than informative, I mean no disrespect to any of our members.
You can not base the language on how the question is asked. I am an English speaker learning to speak Spanish, so I try to ask questions in Spanish.
When someone answers the question then you will know fi they are Spanish or English because of the language they reply in 
I'm tuscantory@aol.com. I was raised in Southern California and had my first Spanish words on the playground in 4th grade. mostly cuss words because the immigrants we played with thouht that was funny. Then of course we learned to count to ten and that was funny to see how fast you could do it.
I traveled to Spain in the summer of 1977, on a scholarship, to Oviedo Asturias, and of course, have since refined my learning processes. I've read Fuenteovejuna and Don Quijote de la Mancha and like Pablo Neruda and Cien Anos de Soledad.
I've been to Tijuana, Mexicali, and Algodones but never much furthur south than Cabo San Lucas, Baja California where my fondest memory is swimming out to a boat to get a fresh bag of camorones given to me by the marineros. I love shrimp.
Does this answer a simple question of where we members might be from?. I am an American born in Texas and educated en espanol through the school system and various social interaction. California sort of says it all. Se habla espanol.
Yeser007
You would notice that after that post, for clarification I posted as a comment
yes but the language people reply in is the language they speak
I am sorry that I had assumed that the language people replied in was their native language. For example, if someone had asked how to translate a sentence into spanish I would not reply as it is not my native language and I may be wrong. Hence why I would only reply to posts that require proof reading of English writing or as such as as you correctly stated English is my native language. Furthermore, I do not tend to use capital letters for each sentence as firstly I was in a rush when writing that comment and secondly I did not think it was necessary on these types of websites; you may have therefore realsied that I am new to this website.
In conclusion, I am sorry for any misunderstanding caused from my assumption and am not in turn trying to have an argument but am simply stating where the misunderstanding has come from.
Sorry folks. I have good reasons to keep my identity under cover.
I really like knowing where people are from! I just love how international this site is, it's, to me one of the pleasures, an answer may come from Hungary or Australia. I think when you first jopin you feel worried, just in case it's not a nice site. Very soon you know it's a brilliant site and wish you had thought up a smarter username for yourself. I'm thinking of changing my donkey for a turtle, progress seems so slow.
I often look at someone’s profile if they have made a grammatical error.
For example if they are a native English speaker and the only error in their post is that they have forgotten a capital letter for a language I may assume it is a typo. I may still edit it because it is one of the errors that irritates me for some reason (mainly because I think it is confusing for people who are learning English) but I will not necessarily feel I need to explain why.
If the poster has not stated their country of origin and/or language levels I will not assume they are a native English speaker as we have many members here who are from different areas of the globe but write English as well, if not better, than many native speakers I know.
Knowing your city & country doesn't really tell anyone much in regard to security issues.
Along with my username, my city and country identify me uniquely.
