Privacy.... was thoughts after yesterday

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>>Ruthie wrote:

>>Culminating in Lucy Rimers post, which

>>made me realise that I had been too open, too >>comfortable about discussing

things which maybe >>should not have been discussed.

I have to admit that before I joined this group I wondered if I should use an

alias - exactly for the reason that if you discuss children and family-related

issues at all, they will always be personal and you never know who's watching.

But then it seemed that everyone else was 'real' and I didn't want to get more

and more webbed into a fictious existence, it felt too much spy-movie for me.

(So yes, I am Karina...).

After reading this thread though I am wondering if anyone knows how long (years?

months?) the archives stay on-line? (in the event that I post something I

regret, or my children go onto be famous and don't want their potty-training

issues to be public...).

Karina

Mum to Emilia (Oct 98) and Sebastian (Aug 00)

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Karina asked:

> After reading this thread though I am wondering if anyone knows how

long (years? months?) the archives stay on-line? (in the event that I

post something I regret, or my children go onto be famous and don't

want their potty-training issues to be public...).

[sue] Yet to be found out!

There are some things which I wouldn't post as I wouldn't want them to

be dragged up by my daughter (or a bitchy 'friend') when she's older.

Must be even worse than dragging out the old family album, having your

mum's old posts about your bedwetting/nose-picking/whatever found ans

circulated.

If you want somewhere to be anonymous, www.mumsnet.com is good for

that. Choose an alias and join. Most people on their have names like

'Tigermoth' or 'Bloss'. One woman has just announced she is leaving

under her old name as everyone knows she is a journo for the Daily

Mail (and is happy to have them know that and has also appealed for

people to join an email list to be her contacts) but she feels she

can't talk openly about family/personal issues because anyone can open

the paper each week and see her 'ugly mug' (her words!) in there. So

she's going to re-register as someone else.

In fact, mumsnet is so good about anonymity that the competition

winners for their recent comp to win a Green book were

only announced by their pen names.

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Sue

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Karina asked:

> After reading this thread though I am wondering if anyone knows how

long (years? months?) the archives stay on-line? (in the event that I

post something I regret, or my children go onto be famous and don't

want their potty-training issues to be public...).

[sue] Yet to be found out!

There are some things which I wouldn't post as I wouldn't want them to

be dragged up by my daughter (or a bitchy 'friend') when she's older.

Must be even worse than dragging out the old family album, having your

mum's old posts about your bedwetting/nose-picking/whatever found ans

circulated.

If you want somewhere to be anonymous, www.mumsnet.com is good for

that. Choose an alias and join. Most people on their have names like

'Tigermoth' or 'Bloss'. One woman has just announced she is leaving

under her old name as everyone knows she is a journo for the Daily

Mail (and is happy to have them know that and has also appealed for

people to join an email list to be her contacts) but she feels she

can't talk openly about family/personal issues because anyone can open

the paper each week and see her 'ugly mug' (her words!) in there. So

she's going to re-register as someone else.

In fact, mumsnet is so good about anonymity that the competition

winners for their recent comp to win a Green book were

only announced by their pen names.

--

Sue