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Just curious...

40 replies

Lara2 · 07/02/2004 17:18

I've lurked around this board for ages and am really curious to know that if you all meet up and your anonimity disappears, does that affect how you post on Mumsnet? Or do the benefits of new friends outway this? I'd be horrified if I met someone I know, as I've divulged things I wouldn't tell friends on here.

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emmatmg · 07/02/2004 17:24

Just got back from a meet-up and I don't feel any different towards my fellow poster's posts or inclined to not post any personal stuff.

I'd say on here just what I'd say in real life.

It was lovely to put a face to all these nicknames.......I couldn't remember half the real names though!

Coddy · 07/02/2004 18:42

I fin d that I post "better" when the two I have met are online at the same time - they can take the piss and I welcome that

(except when its Nicksie)

hulababy · 07/02/2004 18:44

Have met up with 3 MN members so far and feel no different at all about posting. I have never posted anything I don't believe or mean, and have never deliberately tried to hide my identity anyway so have nothing to worry about it IMO.

squirmyworm · 07/02/2004 18:55

I thought it was lovely to put faces to names and don't feel differently about posting. Don't know how I'd feel meeting someone I knew well already as I think you can be really honest and open on mumsnet in a way that sometimes you can't for various reasons with people connected to your family/work etc
anyone?

Janh · 07/02/2004 18:58

I think that having met people actually makes it easier to "talk" to them - like talking to friends - but I haven't (I don't think) ever mentioned anything I wouldn't tell someone in RL. If I subsequently wanted to discuss something embarrassing I would use a different name though!

I have now met - counting on fingers - at least 12 mumsnetters (not all at once) and nearly all of them are really really lovely!

(But if I discovered someone I knew already had been reading what I've written I might feel a bit funny...that's different somehow. Interesting!)

Janh · 07/02/2004 18:59

snap, squirmy!

squirmyworm · 07/02/2004 19:13

ah janh - no archers tonight - how will we manage? can't wait for the omnibus tomorrow! missed loads this week (sorry didn't mean to hijack thread!)

Janh · 07/02/2004 19:39

squirmy, you can "listen again" (or just "listen" if you missed them) to this week's episodes if you can't wait:

The Archers Catchup page

Mind you, can't listen and mumsnet simultaneously - well I can't. Have to play solitaire or something. (Or smack the pingu )

suzywong · 07/02/2004 19:50

I am sooooooooo in the mood to smack that pingu
thanks Jan

suzywong · 07/02/2004 19:50

475.6!
Sorry, wrong thread

popsycal · 07/02/2004 20:17

i have met beccarollover afew times in the last two weeks
she is horrible

popsycal · 07/02/2004 20:17

hehehe

JJ · 07/02/2004 20:27

Hey, out of turn here, but have you realized that all the smack the pingus but one have been out of commission? I'm not sure whose, but we had to go through most links to one that worked tonight.

It's the one whose Pingu didn't skip. I liked the skipping. I'm still happy, though.

Janh · 07/02/2004 20:28

JJ, my one below works - what do you mean by skipping though?

beetroot · 07/02/2004 20:35

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hoxtonchick · 07/02/2004 20:49

wow does pingu need hitting tonight. thanks jan

JJ · 07/02/2004 20:53

The original pingu skipped. It didn't plop headfirst in the snow. It was happy about it, I think.. my husband sent it to me. It's out of commission now.

Janh · 07/02/2004 20:56

Mine skips, JJ! (You have to hit it right though - too soon and it plops.)

Have we all had bad days or is it just the weather?

JJ · 07/02/2004 20:59

You have to realize I know this because...

and my score is much higher now.

JJ · 07/02/2004 20:59

Janh, where where where?

Janh · 07/02/2004 20:59

Have you made 593.5 yet though????

Janh · 07/02/2004 21:00

7.39, JJ. Down the page a bit!

JJ · 07/02/2004 21:01

Oh jeez, I'm just bad.. but there different, I tell you.

(Um Janh, post it again just so I'm sure.. not that I'm addicted to this or Loop..)

hoxtonchick · 07/02/2004 21:01

Really bad day

JJ · 07/02/2004 21:01

THEY'RE.. even.

(hides head in shame)