To now dislike my dd's class teacher after finding her on MN?

[absinthe]

She wasn't very complementary about the little dah-lings in her care and I am silently fuming now. I completely randomly feel upon her user name and looked at her profile on the off chance that it might be her and there she was - pics n' all. She does not post a lot but one of her posts would put her in line for at least a formal warning if not more.

Can't say who she is but it is definitely her - without a shadow of a doubt.

I have never had MN cross over into RL before. Is it wrong of me to glance at her generally boring posts, just because it's her?

Maybe I could drop subtle hints about the fact that I use MN too just to see her reaction.

In any case, I think it was a bit sloppy and feel she should have taken more care to make herself anonymous.

The voodoo books?
maybe she's studying for a PhD in Alternative religion.
Perhaps she's reading 'Witches Abroad and wants to get all the jokes and parallels.
Or she's a High Priestess of the Baron, and you really shouldn't upset her.

lol, can I have a gram or is it oz I will take you up on that class lol x

Maggie I checked the settings on my own wishlist and amazon had "kindly" made it public under my email and name, presumably from the info I registered on amazon with. Seems to be a default setting. That were also using my postal address as a default.

"Are you saying that you have never googled ex partners or ex colleagues just to gain some idea of what they are doing? " Nobody wants to answer do they?

No, I haven't. Honestly. Have googled myself if that counts.

I have old friends on FB yes. But as friends. Yes, I have seen their profiles - but they KNOW. They have added me as a friend. They know I can and may well look.

This is very different tot hat.

Oooh havent been kept in at lunch in yeeeaaars. Takes me right back..

Whats amazon "wish list"?

Instead of "add to basket" you can "add to wish list." I use it to note things for future reference. Although it was intended for my future reference and it turns out its there for all of cyberspace to see..

Surely Amazon wishlists are meant to be public, so people can find out what to buy you without asking you directly? No?

I used my wishlist to bookmark texts I couldn't afford yet. So it never occurred to me that anyone else could see it, unless they logged on as me.

You know what's on my Amazon wishlist?

Various books such as Coming To Term, about miscarriage and pregnancy loss as well as (recently) a few books such as Miffy and the New Baby for children to aclimatise to them to the idea of an imminent sibling.

If anyone looked up my wishlist it wouldn't take a genius to work out that I have had infertility problems and miscarriages as well as the fact that I am pregnant.

That is why the idea of any instrusive horrible, snooping parent is so upsetting to me. Still not "get why it's such a big deal", absinthe? The thought that the parent of a child I teach might think it's ok to do pry into my life and discover this information about me makes me feel violated.

It's not innocent and harmless to snoop around peoples' private lives purely because you wonder what they're like when they "take their professional hat off".

Yes, their list may well just have a few Dan Browns and Delia Smiths, but it may also reveal very private information that you have absolutely no business digging up.

So, you're going with the 'Let's hope she's a Voodoo priestess' option.
I haven't had your experiences, but I do have a child with sn, and I too hate the idea of someone treating my life as a Big Brother opportunity.

Aren't wish lists available to anyone because that is why they are there. So you can create one and then tell people who want to buy you a birthday present etc. I use wish lists at xmas for my dad to see what would be good presents for my dcs.

I had never considered them sinister before!

My amazon list consists of books on paedophilia/sex/alcoholism/self-help/feminism/stress/psychiatry/

It doesn't make me weird - it makes me a therapist - and a lecturer.

Bet if you clicked on the first page and just saw the ones on sex you would be all weirded out though nasty small minded curtain -twitcher--

I have never googled anyone.

And to add it had never occured to me that random people would look at my wish list to glean info about me. That is odd and wrong.

PS can someone tell me how to set mine to private!!!!!!

Voodoo and Santana are perfectly legitimate areas of study.

Just cos they're not interesting to you doesn't make them worthy of raised-eyebrowness or small-minded comments.

Fairly sure we live in a liberal democratic society......

Maybe OP lives in Zimbabwe?

It's ok I've worked it out. I have set mine so I put in the e-mail addresses of people I want to share my list with.

I thought it was best to be careful in case anything was read into my list which has on it a book showing cross sections of star wars ships. It was for DS1 I swear!!!!

Don't bother setting it to private charlie - fairly sure no one in the real world would give a stuff about your list unless you were a teacher !!!!

Voodoo?
Wouldn't fancy that

But I am a teacher!!! Sobs.

charlie - add some sex books

if we all did it then no fucker could take offence or string us up

I'd never checked out anyone's Amazon wish list before...but I jsut have, and fir the first time in years now have an idea what to get DN for her birthday! Awesome! (As she would say)

I would like to recommend this book though. We were asked on training recently to bring books suitable for under fives. A teacher brought this. We all loved it and rushed off to get copies for our own Dcs.
www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=little+mole+who+ knew+it+was+none+of+his+business&sprefix=little+mole