Caught out on MN?

I haven’t ever recognised anyone on these threads and I have been posting for years.
Don’t know if anyone has recognised my
posts. I take precautions such as changing the ages and gender of my kids. Or I may refer to something that happened recently as happening a year ago.
I don’t post anything that I am uncomfortable with tbh .

Oh! What a scary thing to have happened to her. Hope she's OK.

I’ve recognised a few people on here. One of them is very open about her life and doesn’t change any identifying details, so I’ve actually recognised her under three different usernames.

I’ve also recognised two people from FB due date groups which originally started on MN, weirdly in both cases they were posting about abortions and clearly really struggling 😞

I would never mention it in real life.

I recognised the OP in a very controversial thread (and subsequent threads) which ended up in a massive pile-on by troll-hunters and leaked over onto reddit and Tattle where she was basically doxed. I didn't post on the thread/s (too messy) but I did email MN Towers to let them know. I didn't tell the OP as I am pretty sure they'll either never be back or will namechange, as did I, as we've clearly both been on MN for years and hadn't come across each other until that point.

This morning I read a post on a Facebook group that was written by someone who posted in AIBU over the weekend about the issue. I don't know the person in real life though, and it's not something that would cause them anything bad, in fact if the papers pick up the story then some good may happen.

People don't name change before posting because they think it'll somehow make the very specific situation less outing - they do it so if they are recognised by someone in real life, they can't then be searched and previous posts read.

It really annoys me that people on here don't seem to understand this...

Sorry, GN is Gransnet, sister site of MN.

I posted something about my ex SIL a few years ago. Her sister recognised it was me (under a different name) and demanded I took it down because the horrible mumsnetters were agreeing with me (i was right) and poor sad (bitchy as fuck) ex sil was hurt. The post was about 15 pages long agreeing with me. I have never taken it down. Might even print it off sometime and post it to her out of badness. Evil wagon.

Over the years, I have recognised a few people. Ido t say anything though.

I name change quite a lot though. Probably every couple of months.

How can you have recognised her then?

I recognised one poster I knew and contacted her via DM as her circumstances were very difficult at the time and I wanted to offer further support. It was all good because we know and trust each other. She's lovely and knows exactly who I am too 😊

Hopefully we will meet f2f one day.

Yes. The techies at MN have made it so, that you cannot return to an old thread on a different username. It will switch you back for that thread

If everything she says doesn't fit, why are you so sure it's her?

ive recognised someone’s posts on here and everything she says is complete fabrication. She doles out advice on relationships, parenting, working, fashion…in reality her life is a mess. She’s never worked, she literally lives in her dirty dressing gown, her relationship is a wreck, and her kids are neglected and all despise her. It’s made me very wary to believe anything I read online as it’s so easy to lie.

My friend died a few years ago. I knew that she was MNer and had told me she had been on a thread specific to her condition. I was pleased that she was getting support online because she could really be herself and be totally Frank without worrying about her RL friends' emotions.

I'm ashamed to say that after she died I looked for her posts. Given her condition I knew it would be easy to find. She barely spoke about herself at all - almost every post was in support of or being concerned about someone else. And then she just stopped posting, it was obviously her.
I felt really ashamed for looking. I just wanted to 'hear' her voice. I managed to not remember her username and so she can be anonymous going forward.

I posted last year, didn't think anything of it until my inlaw sent me a link to the online tabloid reporting of it. I was/am mortified. It wasn't even that interesting.

No offence, but do you really think things like this work? I know Daily Mail journalists aren’t exactly geniuses, but surely even they can crop a screenshot.

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What's GN?

I think it means Gransnet.

Has it been deleted? That sounds interesting!

Whats GN?

And you don’t think people can have more than one account? All it takes is a second email address.

I read a post once that sounded v much like a friend's situation. I'm pretty sure it was her.

And I'm 99.9% sure a work client posted about their situation. They weren't entirely truthful, and I was very pleased that the majority of posters were quite harsh on them.
I felt v proud of mn for seeing through them

Recently the thread where a nurse was outed for perving over a colleague by a senior nurse

I'd have to burn down the entire internet!

Funny story here. There was a very ‘famous’ and respected poster on here, she still is quoted lots tho is now off threads mostly. I PMd her (similar issues), we briefly chatted on PM and she eventually said (kindly) look, do you want a quick chat?? Gave me her number, as the phone was ringing out I just had a really weird feeling, inexplicably. Not who she was, just an odd feeling. She answered and I recognised her voice, instantly. An old friend. When I knew her back then the issues she talked about on MN hadn’t happened. I hadn’t heard from her for years or knew anyone we both knew so had no idea. One of those freaky things!!!!