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Now that there are so many new members on mn and so many name changers and so much pissing about

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Beetroot · 19/02/2006 18:12

Maybe it is best to just trust the ones you know?

Sad really, used to be able to trust and beleive most MNetters

Discuss?

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Beetroot · 19/02/2006 23:15

hah vvv!!!!!

oldies piss me off to. Just 'know' oldies so understnd where I am with them. Soon happens with newbies I guess, but there are so many now that it takes longer to develop a relationship.

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/02/2006 23:15

Is it the whole spring chicken thing or carlas thread thats made you feel like this?

Miaou · 19/02/2006 23:15

It was seeing what happened to freshstart that made me think, really. I don't think she was particularly naive, SC had been around for a while. Just served to remind me that not everyone is honest and trustworthy.

However, that's life really - if you run a b&b you invite perfect strangers to stay in your home, don't you? There's always got to be an element of trust.

Miaou · 19/02/2006 23:16

VVV, we're synchronising again....pmsl

VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/02/2006 23:16

Do you consider me a newbie?

(sounds like a terribly licky question but you know what i mean!)

VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/02/2006 23:17

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of you Miaou!

Hattie05 · 19/02/2006 23:17

Ok Miaou thanks, you have explained that perfectly! Yes all of that i'd agree totally.

I am so bad at 'trusting' i wouldn't do any of those things, don't need to wouldn't want to. I have my rl friends and social life to do such things with. Internet is a different concept for me, somewhere to chat with people about things in common without a need to meet or exchange addresses etc.

But for purposes of discussion, yes i think totally and utterly necessary that you only exchange personal details with regular mnetters.

Bourneville - i did exactly same as you, and felt sad that some mnetters i'd got to 'know' no longer know who i am if that makes sense! . But i don't want to share my old name as that defeats the point of new identity. Going back to issue of trust i guess!

Miaou · 19/02/2006 23:27

Ah well there's the rub hattie - I don't have many rl friends or opportunities for socialising - and I'm not good at socialising anyway as I have a hearing problem - so mn is quite important to me.

VVV - mmm ... I tend not to think in terms of newbies/oldies tbh - I just notice if I "click" with people (then follow them round forevermore posting sycophantic "me too" simperings whilst twitching erratically)

It helps if you have a weird sense of humour......

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Beetroot · 19/02/2006 23:29

vvvv, no you are not a newbie..Have you changed your name or does it just feel like you have been around for ages?

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/02/2006 23:38

Beetroot - Ive been here since July05 ish. Not long by some peoples standards! Changed my name a couple of times... was vickitiredmum, then Queenvictoria. Am definitely sticking with this one though......it does cause much confusion to people.

Miaou! Have noticed someone following me around lately.......

Am surprised that a couple of people i have made friends with "online" have happily given me their address - mad fools! mwahahahahahaha

Spidermama · 19/02/2006 23:41

Yes I thought there'd been an explosion in the numbers lately. I hanve't read all of this thread but I do find myself wondering why.

wabbitintheheadlamps · 20/02/2006 00:51

VVV - I've had to change my name because my previous one linked me to RL... You posted a lovely piccy of my baby boy for me because I couldn't get it right

I've been posting for about the same time as you - I don't consider myself a newby either - but far from being an 'old timer'!

I always thought you'd been on MN faaaarrr longer than me - took me a while to break out of my ante-natal and post natal threads though

I've heard there's been a ruckus on some threads lately but haven't a clue what it's been about...

VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/02/2006 01:10

Ah yes! i know who you are

I just dived in to the chat stuff soon after exhausting the sleep boards

tigermoth · 20/02/2006 01:19

I do kmow what you mean, beetroot. Rightly or wrongly, I feel I 'know' some mumsnetters better than others. And to know someone naturally means you are more open to trusting then.

I have met some mumsnetters in real life (and some are now my friends) but apart from that, there are even more mumsnetters I know online only, and have never met but I have grown to trust them - partly because even if I have not met them regularly in real life, other people on mumsnet have - and anyway, they have been posting for so long under one name I just feel they are on the level.

If I name change, I try to stick to a variation of my name, but tbh I hardly ever namechange. agree with whoever said if you can't say a comment without going undercover, should you be saying it at all? It's a good test IMO. And yes I do think there are some dodgy people on mumsnet,but not necessarily newbies. IMO it is just as statistically likely to be people who have posted for years.

I can, however, totally understand why you'd want to name change if you suspect family or colleagues could read some too personal posts.

wabbitintheheadlamps · 20/02/2006 01:22

Yes vvv - I've been going through some real crap lately which has prompted me to try annonymity !

VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/02/2006 01:24

Oh no! sorry to here that wabbit..

hunkermunker · 20/02/2006 01:24

I namechange in a very obvious fashion.

I don't like any of you, which makes the oldie/newbie thing a piece of piss.

wabbitintheheadlamps · 20/02/2006 01:32

There's a thread about it in relationships at the moment... I'll stop hijacking now

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