Being outed

[Whereartthouname]

Hi guys. What do people mean they are worried the will be outed in a thread? Is it tha people they know irl will see it?

Yes!

Yes.

And the risk of someone doing a search on their username and finding other posts which might contain private info.

And the death threats that will likely follow.

Who even cares ?

Seriously Lynmilne65? With all the personal threads people have, you really can’t see why someone would care if they were outed?!

Well if I'm coming on here to have a personal rant about work or ask for advice about something I'm not comfortable asking friends / family about I don't want 'outing'.

I do find it odd when people say they can't mention what their job is, because it could out them. Really ? Seems like a big stretch to me.

I work in criminal law. I certainly don't want to be outed.

I got outed in the 5 big UK newspapers and ones all over the world.

A certain post I made about someone locally (not in UK) actually made it back to them because of it.

We're actually friends now which is bizarre and funny.

But not great that I had a mad panic before Mumsnet could delete all my other posts under that name. Luckily I name change every now and then.