to ask you how much you know about me?

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DH informed me that he's a bit concerned that I give out far too much info about myself online.

My stance is that this site is huge and I don't post much - though read all the chuffing time regularly - and I'd be amazed if anyone could dredge up the most trivial information about me let alone identify me in real life.

He thinks not. He thinks that if you post even semi-regularly people will have a "profile" of you fairly quickly, which leaves you vulnerable. Further, he claims that a cursory search will basically make it blindingly obvious who I am and I might as well post up my address and a picture of my tits for good measure.

Obviously with some posters I see their name and think, "Oh it's X. Lives in Devon, is a nurse, is quite funny and always pitches in on BF threads" but for the most part while I recognise names I couldn't really come up with concrete information on their owners.

So, out of paranoia curiousity - what's your mental profile of me when you see my name:

a) Off the top your head
b) With a quick search

Clearly, I am expecting (and hoping!) that the answer will be, "nothing, who the fuck are you?"

I'd be very happy to do it for you in return, btw, should you so desire!

If I post anything that I'm even vaguely worried might make me identifiable then I put it in Chat - it goes up like a puff of smoke after 3 months. But today alone I managed to reveal my DOB, so I really wouldn't worry .

1 - bog all
2 - you've been overlooked by neighbours, are estranged from your sister, have a 2 yr old son, are a teacher, you've peed on your dungeree strap, are pregnant and are considering Regina for the name (please don't ) you live in the downstairs bit of a maisonette and you went to the zoo on the 1st of may.

and as a bonus I discovered that you would have to be a really really really really sad bastard to bother searching through someone's posts to see if you knew them. It is very boring.

I know nothing. However, it would be easy to find out.

Ouch

Really thick I know, but how do you search for people to find out what threads they have been on?

go to advanced search - top right of screen - ish! just above the moon.

Nada

Your name is Garth, you are a 58 year old line dancing fanatic who works for British telecom and at the weekend partakes in a spot of dogging? Thought I recognised the name

i guess your dh means that if we all go searching we could, from some threads build up a picture.

I'm bolloxed then, but am sure noone knows WHO I am iyswim.

oh, and I've also have seen your name but i have no idea about your personal life!

Don't know your shoe size, so please don't worry ,seriously though I don't think any of us really bother to think too much about other's profiles, I don't.

You have painfully large breasts that have troubled you all your life and rather small feet for which you are unable to find brogues. You are attention seeking.

who would bother though? Trawl through hundreds and hundreds (or thousands, ahem ) of posts on all sorts of drivel to find the few that, put together over the years, may or may not come together to identify a person?

You tried to namechange last year, towards Christmas ish time and it didn't work. Your UCM moment.

You often don't feel like going out to events/parties etc but usually enjoy them once you're there.

You sometimes worry about things you have said or done, more than you think is healthy.

You are very good at starting things and full of enthusiasm at first, but your attention lapses as time goes on.

You sometimes feel melancholic and don't know why.

You have a mysterious disease that no one can diagnose (even Dr House) and you live in a storm drain with 19 hamsters and a polecat.

I recognise your name, but don't really recall anything particular about you. But that's probably the same for a lot of posters. The only ones I know much about are the ones who regularly post on the same sorts of threads as I do, or people who are quite "famous" on here.

You sometimes eat your child's leftovers, even though you're not hungry and you don't like them.

Your polecat is a crap hunter, judging by the 19 hamsters.

Your polecat lost all its legs in a mysterious and tragic accident with a combine harvester.

You often see slightly threatening shapes in clouds.

Off the top of my head, nothing.

Will do a quick search at get back to you.

zilch

although thanks for posting this, as it has given me a good larf

You live in the downstairs flat of a maisonette and the garden is shared with the flat above us.

How long did that take me?

Your female polecat (mustela putorius for the purists) is polyandrous. She'd like nothing more than to chase tail in a non-monogamous fashion but she can't on account of the leg situation. She dreams of combine harvesters and wakes, crying and trying to run.

You have faked an orgasm.

Haven't used search, but I think I know your name from a few threads. That's all.

You love cheese and onion crisps but are allergic to them.

You had a near death experience after which you converted to Christadelphianism.

Your hamsters are all albino.