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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 7, 2022 23:23:32 GMT
Wow. So she complained about specific students and/or parents here? I am shocked (I know, I know, I can’t help myself) that someone actually called her school. So Mrs T came here and shared that info on the board, then left? And the person who did this was never outted? If I remember correctly, the pea who called her employer was Lima. And it was suspected that mrs T had an alter ID posting defending herself!! |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Feb 7, 2022 23:35:53 GMT
In the early days of everyone being on the internet (early 90s for me) it was hard to know how much was ok to share about yourself and what was risky. My first year of being online was education/work related and we were strictly warned to never ever reveal anything that could lead back to you personally, which is a bit ironic since I was basically doing searches using Boolean logic for library patrons and city staff -- nothing remotely personal to me. By the time I had kids and was hitting Momsonline on AOL in 1997-98 ish there were people sharing their birth plans and breastfeeding schedules using thinly disguised names and their real small town locations. There was one very popular poster who lived in Port Angeles and once while on a day trip I ran into her on the street and recognized her. I have a weirdly retentive memory for random stuff, so I had instant recall of some very personal postings, her kids' names, stuff about her husband and MIL. . . That encounter set me up to be somewhat cautious about what I was willing to share online, and I created some rules for self about levels of information sharing. If I wouldn't share it with someone I just met at a party, I wouldn't share it on a forum. If I wouldn't post it on my whiteboard at my workplace, I wouldn't put it on FB. Stuff like that. Over time I've shifted my rules, but I do have a back-of-the-mind framework of what is ok to put out there and what I just won't. This reminded me of something that happened to my son almost 15 years ago. I had totally forgotten about it. He was 17 and in NYC (from Seattle) on his own for a few days for an audition, and was walking along when a woman (who was a pea and a FB friend) recognized him from photos I’d posted on the photog board and on FB, and flagged him down. I don’t recall much of what he told me of the encounter, other than it was very awkward for him. She lived in another state far away, so he had no idea who she was and why she knew him. To be clear, as far as I know she’s the nicest person ever 🤷🏼♀️ Lucky for him, he left for college shortly thereafter so I barely posted any photos of him after that 😏 Oh that would have been so weird. I do know that I would recognize a few people’s children from online but I wouldn’t go up to them if I saw them in person. I rarely post pictures of my son and have been covering his face for scrapbook challenges and now this makes me really feel I need to do this. |
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Post by MichyM on Feb 8, 2022 16:01:15 GMT
Wow. So she complained about specific students and/or parents here? I am shocked (I know, I know, I can’t help myself) that someone actually called her school. So Mrs T came here and shared that info on the board, then left? And the person who did this was never outted? If I remember correctly, the pea who called her employer was Lima. And it was suspected that mrs T had an alter ID posting defending herself!! Thank you. I searched Lima here and an old thread came up. Lima posted to it and filled in any remaining blanks in that situation. Lima sounds like a real “peach.” Still no thoughts on Mrs. T since I never paid attention to her. |
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