snooping on my mumsnet

[mophead5]

soooo pissed off right now.
have been informed by my brother that his missus has been having a gander at my messages on mumsnet.
i am like 'how can she do that when she doesnt know my password'?
he explained that all she did was type in my nickname on yahoo search, that she did know because we have chatted on here before, then mumsnet and voila, it took her to every conversation and message ive written
i was gobsmacked...to say the laest.
what is the point of having a password if any tom dick and harry can get in so easily?
god...even facebook is safer!!!!

Don't post anything you wouldn't want the whole world to read!!! Anyone can be reading - your husband, the neighbour you hate, the teacher you want to give a wedgie to, the friend who takes the piss..

Anyone could read and recognise. So don't say anything you wouldn't be prepared to say to their face.

When I do it with my name on Yahoo search, I only get threads where someone has mentioned my name. I agree your SIL is being a bit odd, but if it bothers you namechange and don't tell people your username in future.

I put your name into yahoo and got loads of links to mopeds

I just typed my username and mumsnet into google and it brought up my posts

Well I'll post things I wouldn't say to others but then I try to avoid sharing too much personal information,and don't give out my user name.

I only post drivel so I don't much care who sees it.

am amazed. before i actually posted anything i read through a lot of stuff on here and to be honest most of it would make your hair curl.
women having affairs, thinking of leaving their husbands, being physically abused. i honestly thought this was all just on this site...private from non members.
how much of a twat do i feel now

so how did you tghink you were reading, pre-registering?

I didn't realise search was members only, mind

You have an excuse.You're a newbie.You'll learn.

thats just it...i didnt actually try to read any posts before i joined. i just went straight to join THEN started reading threads stuff

Bless. Quite sweet in a way innit?

ahhhh i joined after reading a thread from a google search about a pg problem - never heard of MN previously - assumed most people were the same

Welcome to mumsnet.

Change your username just slightly every now and again so if someone searches on Bumperlicious they will get all the posts under that nick name but not ones where I was Bumperslucious or similar.

If you go to advanced search you can search for messages by nickname, did you not realise?

so basically what youre all saying is...
always be polite about everyone, especially your other half,
never slag off your kids teachers,
do not make snide comments about other mumsnet members,
do not open your heart and ask for advice about anything more personal than pile treatments or what to put in your kids sarnies...otherwise they can all read your comments great

I'd do a permanent namechange, think of a new nickname and tell no one what it is in rl.

Especially not sil.

I agree with SPB - I thought everyone would have read at least one thread before registering (or else how would you know if it was any good?) so you would know that registering not necessary for reading.

Anyway, if you knew your SIL was nosey then what's to stop her fom registering (it's very easy) in order to snoop?

Change name. Do not tell anyone.

Your Facebook privacy settings probably aren't as good as you think, either.

"so basically what youre all saying is...
always be polite about everyone, especially your other half,
never slag off your kids teachers,
do not make snide comments about other mumsnet members,
do not open your heart and ask for advice about anything more personal than pile treatments or what to put in your kids sarnies...otherwise they can all read your comments great"

NO! LISTEN: JUST DON'T SHARE YOUR NICKNAME!!!!

FGS. This has been said at least 5 times on this thread.

You can say wtf you like if no one knows your username

i always thought facebook was pretty secure, also i didnt know you could get threads deleted

facebook can be secure, However if you show the level of competance with FB that you do about MN, I'd say your settings are shite.

Facebook is not very secure at all if you don't pay attention and amke sure eveything you have is set to 'be visible to 'Only Friends'.

actually, I'm not getting anything at all when I search your name on google! Weird.

Google gives 'did you mean mop head?' (instead of mophead as one word)

Yahoo search says 'We did not find results for: mophead5 mumsnet. Try the suggestions below or type a new query above.'

But if you have chatted on here before then you know she is a member and can search using the advanced search function.