Have you ever been caught?

[GreenFairy246]

I was wondering if anyone has ever been caught on MN posting about someone or a situation and been busted?

Have you ever written about a friend or relative or situation and the third party has discovered the post? Or have you been accused and denied it?

I see a lot of "I could've written this" and wondered...

Sorry the heading probably should have been "... to wonder if you've ever been caught"

Have name changed since but I once wrote a post regarding something a friend had done, it was picked up by tabloids and even made it onto the news. She definitely knew it was about her as she confronted me about it

I wasn’t busted on here as such. Daily fail posted pics I’d added for opinions on style and beauty section and wrote an article about it 🙈 although the shots were of my dress (not showing head) 2 friends recognised me from bedroom etc and text me. Very embarrassing all round plus the comments on the fail were BRUTAL 😂😂

Novelty - daily mail online?! Half of their online content lifted directly from This site 🙈

@peepeedarling how did you guess!?

Yes. I had 3 consecutive threads about my ex-h leaving and the subsequent horrors of OW and divorce. It was my lifeline and safe space at the time. OW's situation was quite specific and I believe somebody recognised it and told her. The first I knew about it was when ex-h posted. He was subsequently banned. They then printed all 3,000 posts out and took them to the Police and handed them in to the Court claiming "contempt" because I had anonymously posted about financial hearings (with no identifying details at all). Court ignored it and Police told them it wasn't "harassment" . They're still there and I often hope other people who know them might come across them and understand the absolute hell they put my kids and I through. Pair of pricks.

Have you ever been caught trawling online forums for content when you should be actually doing some journalism?

@MintyMabel - HA HA Oh my god! I do sound like I'm a journalist after a story don't I! I'm absolutely not. But then again that's exactly what a journo would say I guess .

I was actually originally thinking about posting about something personal and decided against it because I'm too paranoid and that got me thinking!

No, but I once offered some banking complaints advice to someone and the next time I was at work, she called in and I took the call.

It was a very odd coincidence and as I’d suspected, the reality of the situation was quite different to the post.

I recognised my cousin (she'd put the same anecdote she had on FB) and she had started a thread about how she was struggling with a little one and being pregnant. I never mentioned it but got in touch 9 separate times over a month offering babysitting, catch ups, playdates and was rebuffed every time. She doesn't know I saw her posts but either she wasn't struggling that month or clearly just doesn't like me

A friend recognised me, nothing untoward, I was talking about cake

I live in fear of this!

It was a very odd coincidence and as I’d suspected, the reality of the situation was quite different to the post

How did you know it was the same person if the situation was different

Hmm...

I remember that @TheFormidableMrsC - still admire your incredible strength through it all

My sister recognised me instantly which is fine and I know her username. She hasn’t changed it in years but I have a few times. I often read a ‘familiar’ sounding post and, yep, when I read the username it’s my sister. Neither of us post anything particularly personal though and we usual ‘meet’ on the Christmas boards from Sept 😂.

When I first started posting on MN about 10 years ago (😵) I posted a VERY specific post about us having to sit in the kitchen when we visited with DS as we weren’t allowed in the living room. I was told I was NBU by almost everyone. A few days later DH spoke the her on the phone and she told him she loved her new laptop and had found this great site called Mumsnet 😵. MNHQ quickly deleted that post for me but we were allowed into the living room soon after...

There's someone on here who's nom de plume is my actual name is very similar to my actual name in real life. I often wonder if anyone who knows me thinks that she (nom de plume lady) is me.

Apologies for repetition. The child is distracting me.

@PleasantVille there was enough for it to have to be the same situation - the poster’s opinion and thoughts about the outcome was very different to the bank’s version of events. I can’t remember the specifics but it was something to do with how a death had been dealt with.

I'm pretty sure that is friends and family were on here they could piece together who I am. But I've never posted anything outrageous. My latest thread was to ask for classical music recommendations. But yeah my anonymity could easily be busted

No but I posted about a work situation and one poster was so outraged at a certain procedure I had to follow that they said they were going to send it to the Fail in the hope I was recognised and lost my job. The fact that I have a niche job and combined with a recent posting on ‘local’ I could have been identified.

I had to beg MN to take the thread down as I was terrified I was going to get in trouble at work. Now I’m calmer I can see it was unlikely I would have been identified but at the time I was terrified.
I now name change often and never post anything personal.

@PleasantVille the poster’s INTERPRETATION was different!

My god I got there in the end!

My ex searched the search bar specifically until he found a post that sounded like mine. Knob. He then complained that I made him sound like a alcoholic and bad father...well mate don’t act like one then. If your reading this post you owe 2k in child maintenance.