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Spotting people who you know in RL on MN - What is the MN etiquette?

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TheBlonde · 19/02/2007 22:03

I'm sure it's been done before but what is the accepted MN etiquette when you spot or think you have spotted someone you know in RL?

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TheBlonde · 23/02/2007 19:21

Damn have changed my mind again

How does one bring up MN in RL conversation exactly?

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TheBlonde · 23/02/2007 20:55

Right I have CAT'd my suspect

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filthymindedvixen · 25/02/2007 13:57

Am I the only one who checked their emails just to be on the safe side?

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TheBlonde · 25/02/2007 20:42

no reply as yet but I don't think they forward CATs on the weekend

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Rhubarb · 25/02/2007 20:45

How on earth do you recognise someone from Mumsnet?
I can understand those who have put 2 and 2 together based on postings, but you can't just recognise a Mumsnetter in a supermarket surely?

hoxtonchick · 25/02/2007 20:49

i have been spotted twice, both times by lurkers (i think). one was someone from work, the other a friend. didn't make me change anything. but i'm fairly indiscreet in real life anyway....

Rhubarb · 25/02/2007 20:51

I don't give a crap who "spots" me btw, I'm no different in real life and don't post anything on here that I wouldn't discuss with others anyway. I have no skeletons!

leahsmum · 25/02/2007 20:52

I was spotted by a fellow MNer on my way to the labour ward last week. She posted on my birth announcement thread - not bothered one bit. Find it quite amusing actually.

kid · 25/02/2007 21:00

I discovered a MNer at DCs school. She had posted about a trip her child was on which matched my DDs school trip. I checked some of her old posts and new 100% it was her. I approached her the next day and she said had a feeling it was me before! Sadly she is no longer a MNer though.

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TheBlonde · 04/03/2007 15:13

Well it's been a week now and no response
Also no more posts from my suspect so they have probably namechanged!!

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ucm · 04/03/2007 15:32

I would ask them 'Is that You xxxx', if you REALLY knew is was them I would plague them with this by email/mail. Eventually they will get so fecked off with it that they will cave in go mad.

IMO.

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TheBlonde · 20/04/2007 15:27

Been thinking about this again...
I never got any reply to my CAT and the person has now namechanged so they know who I am but I don't know their new posting name

Should I be offended?

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Tinker · 20/04/2007 15:33

Do you know them well?

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TheBlonde · 20/04/2007 15:35

Reasonably so, they are not just an acquaintance

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GameGirly · 20/04/2007 15:38

Is it a colleague? IS IT ME?!

Tinker · 20/04/2007 15:39

Have they posted personal stuff?

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TheBlonde · 20/04/2007 15:41

Nope

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krabbiepatty · 20/04/2007 15:43

Hoxtonchick spotted me at a paddling pool but we had CATed etc so probably does not count

Dinosaur · 20/04/2007 15:45

Hoxtonchick also identified my DH and DS2 in the playground at London Fields - she didn't ask him "are you dinosaur's DH" though!

Tinker · 20/04/2007 15:45

Hmm, odd. Can understand name change but not the rest.

krabbiepatty · 20/04/2007 15:47

Hoxtonchick has very sharp eyes. You and I probably snatch each other's chicken kievs every other day, Dinosaur, and just haven't twigged.

Dinosaur · 20/04/2007 15:50

You have almost certainly seen my DH and DS3 whizzing round in there buying over-packaged fruit and veg and cartons of goats milk.

1dilemma · 21/04/2007 01:26

UCM is it you?

ha ha

UmSami · 21/04/2007 02:46

Man MNET is SO MUCH MORE COMPLICATED than I originally thought!!! I'm relatively new to this and don't get to chat as often as I like...what the heck is CATing...

AM i ok just plunging into conversations and starting to chat (as I am doing now)

Do I need to introduce myself...?

Correct me now if i'm rule breaking...major paranoia moment lurking LOL [desperately searches for crazy looking emoticon]

For the record...maybe I'm oblivious but i'd be kinda chuffed if I was spotted...glad to see that my comments were of note! RAther have it done quietly though...again what the BEEP is CATing hehehe

AlwaysWatchingCastawayAt2am · 21/04/2007 03:21

i too am beginning to worry - so many people seem to 'know' each other. are newcomers welcome to dive in (like this?)