Have you ever recognised someone on here?

[HowdenMinster]

I've spotted a colleague, and oh my gosh it's compulsive entertainment. She has given enough away to make her hugely identifiable and yet paints a very very rosy version of her life. I used to quite like her (other colleagues warned me she wasn't pleasant), but the embellishments on here and the snotty, comments she leaves on people's posts have made me change my opinion. It's taking all my might not to comment with or on all her posts.

Have you ever realised who someone is, and did you say anything to them? Or did you, like me, just get the popcorn in?

No but I did recognise two people on another parenting forum….. one person in particular gave a lot of personal information on family members. She obviously thought no one would recognise her.

I would just sit and say nothing!

Yes, very similar case here - husband's place of work, where they live, and then shockingly financial details too. (Though I am doubting the financial details - considering she has embellished her own role and husband's job title).

Yep, a neighbour!

Not on here but on another forum - my sister in law. We’re no contact with the whole family (horrible lot) but it’s been quite fun reading her posts.

I would say hey (insert name) it's you from (insert company), didn't think you'd be a mumsnetter. Let their mind be boggled trying to work out who you are lol

Yes, several, from a single post in each case. None of them have been people I know well though.

Years ago I recognised a post in AIBU as an acquaintance had posted the same story on her Facebook (iirc it was about observing someone changing a baby’s soiled nappy on a table seat on a train).

Never mentioned it, did make me think about stereotyping as I would have never thought she was a Mumsnetter!

no, but someone recognised me!

Yes. Some mildly damning comments about one aspect of my life.
I stayed stum but it made me think a little differently about our friendship.

Yes 2 school mums, who i dont really know but gave some very identifying information away about themselves so it was was easy to work who they were.

Yes, a good while ago now. She posted a picture on Facebook and posted the same picture. She was a semi prolific poster and I recognised the name but never clicked it was her until then.

She had a looooong posting history and put a lot on here that I didn't know about her She also posted about a couple of situations where I had actually been present and she..... embellished things to say the least!

I never told her.

Not someone I know in real life from I've recognised someone from one of my Facebook groups.

Exactly the same OP - sanctimonious posts and yet I know her life is completely different.
It's actually helpful as a reminder to take everything you read on here as a pinch of salt!

No, not yet.

@Tinysalmonswimminginastream

Yes, a good while ago now. She posted a picture on Facebook and posted the same picture. She was a semi prolific poster and I recognised the name but never clicked it was her until then.

She had a looooong posting history and put a lot on here that I didn't know about her She also posted about a couple of situations where I had actually been present and she..... embellished things to say the least!

I never told her.

That must have been amusing!

@sausageisassausagedoes

Exactly the same OP - sanctimonious posts and yet I know her life is completely different. It's actually helpful as a reminder to take everything you read on here as a pinch of salt!

Yes! Absolutely- all of those threads about earnings and houses and holidays - how many of them are a fiction?

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

no, but someone recognised me!

Eeek! Did they tell you?

I am totally paranoid now that I might have been recognised. Anyone else? 😂

Can the people who have ID'd someone name names?!

Not on here, but on that other parenting forum. She posted a few threads about her husband who was abusive. In real life she was very, very vocal about what an amazing husband and father he was. 😔 I always thought he was a prick.

I deleted a thread because someone said they knew where I worked ( although on reflection they might have just meant the store in general, not specifically).

Someone recognised me!

Yes, a colleague. I didn't say anything.

@HowdenMinster

yes! she's a lovely friend.

I'm 99% sure a post on here was by a colleague;it certainly fitted because of some things I knew about her that she'd disclosed to myself and another colleague but the post was very sad and the situation her husband had put her it made me angry and I really wished I could have spoken to her about it but it would have meant betraying her right to anonymity and if it was the 1% possibility it wasn't I would have alienated her.