People whoi change Mumsnet names

[codswallop]

I am consumed with curiosity abut who these people are!! PLease dont change your names Its so boring when we have no idea. Surley the whole internet thing is that its ananymous.

Didn't you used to be someone else?

Yeah that's what she means..... I'm just stirring.

yes yes - and its always totallyfascinating - sepecially uknowme who forgot to change back on some non controversial therad!

yes I was edgarcat

Did my last post (on 'can't stop thinkign about sex' thread) trigger this by any chance??

Perhaps people change their names because:

• husband knows their 'regular' name
• they know some Mumsnet people 'IRL' (In Real Life)as well as 'virtually'
• Don't suppose anyone would want to turn up at a Mumsnet meet-up and have everyone say, " oh yes, you're the one who uses their Rampant Rabbit 57 times a night, or has 3 lovers, etc etc ??

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Can see from both points of view really as the whole internet thing is meant to be annonymous- however (sorry to use Uknowme as an example) but she did say she is a regular poster and if she has been to meet ups etc she may feel a bit too exposed - also there may be other people on here who know her personally but she doesn't want to tell them about her troubles!

Bit of a pointless post actually but that's my opinion anyway!

Cos we know it annoys you Cods....

ah never thought of dhs

This is great, I've never done this before.... should I take this opportunity to confess lots of my dirty secrets??

Nah...

Stop it - I'm all confused now - Your making my little brain hurt

I have changed my name once in a post which involved legal stuff I wasn't really meant to discuss with anyone. Looking back, it's probably really obvious that it was me to anyone who knows me.

I'm also being cyber-stalked atm too which is a bit eerie. But if I changed my name now then I'd have to start all over again re-introducing myself and perhaps changing details just to confuse things. Will just carry on regardless

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And what about people who try to pretend they're you.....

LOl very good! how can you do that?

bog off! codswallop the genuine

have just changed mine because my rant is something that makes me instantly recognisable to real life friends (I've been ranting for a while) and I value my anonymity on Mumsnet.

mine was to add some zings to my posts and people might have recognised me as beccaroll so beccarollo was a cunning disguise

I changed my name after about a year of posting because my original name was so obvious and I recognised a couple of posters as people I knew in real life (regretted my raving about how wonderful mumsnet was to all and sundry when I realised my anonymity was gone). Now trying not to be too obviously 'me' in my posts as I don't want to change names again.

Yeah, bobsmum, what is cyber-stalking?