to get really pissed off when people lie on here?

[daisy5678]

I know lying is wrong anyway. But it's almost insulting to lie on here when, if necessary, people can see that you've lied as your words are stored forever! If you're going to lie, at least lie well .

What bugs me is when people lie to get sympathy or admiration for something that is directly contradicted by something else they wrote and they can't possibly both be true.

And then everyone piles in and goes 'oh, poor you' and you know it's bullshit and you can't say 'yeah, but they're lying' because nobody will believe that you have a photographic memory and will think you're stalking the poster and also everyone will think you're being a bitch.

I think IABU. Oh well. I'll get over it.

Bit U to demand honesty on the internet!!

I have changed details of my personal life in fruitless attempt not to be recognised. I'm entitled to do that.

I hate it when people lie on the internet.

OP I think you're being a bit looney and I don't know how on earth you remember 'thread after thread' of liars.

If they are are out and out whopping lies, then the OP is barmy so who cares and if they are minor changes, then there's probably good reason.

I have sometimes changed a couple of minor details about my life/dc, if I feel I'm saying something a bit personal and it may poss lead to being 'outed'.

I think it's a common enough view!

A poster on here who no doubt considers herself very intelligent, outed me because some of the details I revealed about my family were wrong (deliberately wrong). She is a school friend of a friend of mine. So she outed me on the grounds that my posts made her cringe! wow. Imagine believing that you had the right to out another poster because their posts made you cringe?! well, I'm terribly sorry I made some randomer cringe.

oooops i don't lie on here should I??

perhaps some people are a bit needy on here because they are like that in real life too.
some people are on here for just the support and sympathy i am sure of that, but ignore if that's not your thing.

I've changed small details of my personal life in order for me to be unrecognisable if anyone who knows me in RL was to stumble on my posts/threads. It's possible that because of this, I have contradicted myself without intending to. It's not done to deceive any of you MNers, it's done to protect myself from being noticed, so to speak. It's a bit daft to expect people to tell the truth online, (even if they're outright lying rather than just doing what I've done) if they want to lie, I'm sure they do have a reason for it, and I wouldn't judge.

Why don't you just say who it is then?

Ah, go on, you know you want to bitch openly about a particulr thread or two, not just hide behind this 'in general I find this annoying' approach.

Absolutely LucyLouLou and Altnkrl

I change details slightly, ages for eg

Challenge on the thread

tell us here gwan

Anybody who has a breastfeeding on a bus story I assume to be lying. You know, just in case we recognise them in RL as being sane. Throws us all off the scent and that.

I probably reveal far too much on here.

If you were sad enough to go and read all my posts you could probably work out loads about my life.

Can't be arsed to lie, too lazy.

BOF I also assume almost all of the 'outraged reaction to my public BF' threads to be a bare faced lie or at least a huge exaggeration.

The thing is, people don't post these types of thread to mislead or to pretend to be somebody else, they do it for glory and attention. There are some things you could post here and get pretty much 100% 'oh my god that's awful, you poor thing, I'd have done exactly the same. Everybody else is mad and you sound lovely' etc etc.

So you can see how tempting it is to say 'My MIL grabbed the baby from me whilst screaming in my face PUT THOSE VILE DEVIL BAGS AWAY' and sit back and enjoy the feeling of being, briefly, the most sympathised with person on the board.

I have a stalker on here who knows me in RL

When I have tried to change details so that anyone who vaguely knows me wouldn't recognise me immediately, then she challenges me in RL along the lines of "you said on MN... but what happened was ....."

Tis highly irritating

I sometimes round the ages of my dcs up or down either for convenience or a bit more anonymity. Or I might vaguely refer to them as dc rather than dds. That kind of thing.

I s'pose if anyone was that bothered they could say "hey, your dd1 was 6 3 weeks ago, then you said she had a birthday, but you still say she is 6" or "on the other thread you claimed she was 7 HOW DARE YOU!"

OP, like you I have a great memory and attention to detail. If the odd poster does completely and utterly contradict herself tbh I deal with it by avoiding their threads/not commenting. Also I would be worried that I had missed something. Say for example someone suddenly stopped posting about a dh or a dc. Perhaps they had experienced a relationship breakdown or even a bereavement that they hadn't widely posted about. So I would tread very carefully and tend not to "out" people.

I don't lie, but I do sometimes be a little vague when posting some things, to reduce identification in RL. so therefore I don't post too often unless I really feel I can help.

I don't think I lie enough - I should lie some more.

HRH then your talents are clearly wasted here - get out there making a fortune writing novels!!!

(How are things going after 'The Big Talk'??)

HRH - I bow to your awesomeness

In that case will you make up something else about her? Or has she now been officially retired?

I wish I could lie more. I say the first thing that comes into my head. I just tell the truth naturally.
Dh told me off last night. Said I should have lied to the GP. He is right. I should have lied. Was the most fucking awful thing I ever did .and thta has ever happened to me in all my life. And I still can't seem to get over it.
And I bought it all on myself. By going to a new Gp, telling the truth. what a twat.
I don't lie on here. Maybe i should lie more. Never really considered outing myself. Always imagine that no one else is the least bit interested.
Food for thought.