AIBU have you ever outed yourself on mumsnet Or...

[MoonStar07]

Worked out who someone was from a thread? Or has anyone ever said to you I know you? I see a lot of NC so I just wondered!

yep. I was outed and it caused a HUGE drama. I name change frequently as a result.

Yes, one of my closest friends posted a very long, involved thread about her terrible fall out with her SIL and MIL. I recognised it straight away and the confirmation was her username, the same as one she has elsewhere. She got absolutely slammed and argued back before leaving the thread in a huff. She reacted exactly the same way to my real life advice!

Had no idea she was on Mumsnet and unless she's name changed not seen her since.

Do you mean single track

Yes!

The full expression is 'Mind like a Welsh railway line, one tracked and dirty'

Never heard it here (despite being on welsh railways for 30 years). Love it. But i've heard "as narrow minded as a welsh railway".

Yes I've recognised a couple of people on here I know through another forum.

For now Emma yes, things haven't been good for a while but we've been together a long time, have DC etc so i think we're both trying to make sure it really can't be salvaged before we give up. He's never done anything like that before, has never seemed suspicious or lacked trust in me (and I've never given him cause to) so god knows what was going on in his head. It's not something I'm finding easy to forgive though.

Very probably have, possibly multiple times. I haven't named changed in 4 years.

I posted a photo of my cat once except it was ME!!!
Just about shat myself, reported myself & got it deleted pdq lol

Not been outed (yet), but a friend asked on FB "Who's on MY?" and loads of mutual friends came back saying they were.

I kept schtum. But waves to anyone who may have recognised me!

*MN not MY

there was a thread about your gangsta name, one of those where you take your grandmother's maiden name and the name of your school etc.

Some one pmed me about the school name and she knew me! I didn't remember her, and she said 'I remember when you left, and I hope you were happier at your new school'
I was really thrown by that, I left because we moved and I was happy at school, and happy at new school. Was stunned to think she had seen me as an unhappy teen.

I am fairly recognisable, but I don't really post anything I wouldn't say out loud, and I'm not bothered if I am recognised.

Yes.

Recently had a RL conversation with a friend about a parenting issue and it followed similar lines to an AIBU thread that was running at the time. Friend said she was a MNetter and I also said I was, but we didn't discuss usernames. One look at the thread told me who she was and I advanced searched the user name and all her details matched her posts. Really easy to find.

I don't think she knows who I am (although she could guess from my username).

She's a good friend so I know we'd be laughing about it if she knew I'd done some MN stalking!

I don't think anyone knows who I am, but I did recently stumble across a user who is definitely a member of my family (no doubt about it). I haven't searched to see anything else she has posted and now just click away from threads that I see she is on to try and give her some privacy, I will tell her next time I see her though in case she wants to NC!

Many people know who I am. Been on mn maybe 10/11yrs and early days as I post on childcare a lot (nanny and maternity nurse) then some knew was me

5yrs ago dh sadly died and I posted about it and again that would 'out' me

Plus a lot on infertility stuff

But I'm fine with it

I don't write anything I don't mind people reading

i always worry about it and try not to post things i wouldnt like to be traced back to me.

something life changing happened to me which is very outing and anyone that knows me and reads anything ive posted about on here relating to it will know for sure it is me.

I post a fair bit of personal/identifiable stuff (if you looked at several posts together as a PP said upthread) so it wouldn't surprise me if anyone recognised me, but I NC every couple of years or so, sometimes more frequently, anyway. I think I'm onto my fifth or sixth name now, and probably due another change soon.

I'm fairly sure I have been recognised. My SIL posts here and I recognise her posts (although I haven't opened threads she has started if it's not an issue I'm aware of - I think that's just manners) so I'm very sure she'd recognise mine.

I'm pretty identifiable so I don't post unless I'm happy for Mrs B at number 7 to know what I'm posting about. That's my test.

If anyone else has recognised me then they haven't said. I would hope anyone that did would respect my reasons for posting here (not a lot of confidence, not that many real life friends etc) and not be an arse about it.

I crossed paths with my lovely friend on a ttc thread so she outed herself there. I do occasionally see her posts on threads but to be honest if she mentions me it's only with glowing praise so I quite like it!

Wouldn't bother me if I was outed. I don't say anything here I wouldn't say in person.

I haven't recognised anyone I know in RL on here, but then I don't really try to spot people.

I always think I am probably instantly recognisable to anyone who knows me. I used to get a bit panicky about being recognised and name change a lot, but I haven't bothered for several years now. I don't post anything I wouldn't say in RL anyway.

I was outed by another poster, I have no idea who they were or why they did it - beside being an utter thunder cunt, they posted a link to elsewhere where your ID is clear, it is not like I had anything to hide, or posted anything even slightly controversial, I don't post anything I wouldn't mind anyone reading, but I felt totally violated, it was horrible and put me off here for a long time, I very rarely post these days and would now never share anything important I may actually like advise on.
I mostly lurk when skiving work these days.

I recognised someone I know on here, but only because she was posting about an incredibly specific (and unusual) situation in her life that she'd already told me about. That's the only post she's made under that name so either she was scared off MN afterwards (she had some fairly harsh responses & troll accusations) or has been canny enough to name change since.

A lady I know, I'll call her A was best friends with a close friend of mine called B. A was on AIBU a lot complaining about B who had been enormously supportive but due to a change in circumstances was going to be less available for a while. A painted B to be a dreadful friend and got a lot of you are NBU. Knowing both sides I was . B would have been mortified. It's made me take posts from people with a pinch of salt. You get a very one-sided view from the person posting.

I think there's one poster who I'm pretty sure is someone I knew slightly in the year below me at school, based on a post about where and when she went to university and what she studied. Someone else I know only because she uses the same nickname on another forum where many people know who other people are IRL.

I haven't seen this obsession with being outed on other forums. On Facebook people post using their own names, sometimes about some quite personal stuff, albeit usually in closed groups. I sometimes use another, much smaller, parenting forum on which people often have various personal details in their signatures, or mention them in their posts, and sometimes they meet up IRL.

That said, I do name change every couple of years or so and might name change if I wanted to post about something very personal or identifying.