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I was recognised by a bber at the beginning of the year...I'm a second year student mid at griffith and i spoke to the first years for 1.5hrs at the beginning of the year in on of their lecturers sharing my twins birth story as it was a 100% natural, active, intervention free birth and Mama Spice recognised me....personally I thought it was cool! So I was glad she told me!
I think if I recognised someone I would tell them, because I know if someone recognised me I would want them to tell me.
Excuse my sucky spelling, I'm on my iPhone
The cup I use at work is my bellybelly cup, so it's sorta out there!!!
I think that if you're following a blog, then it is sorta polite to just mention that you are reading blogs ... to me, if you recognise a client / customer then you may make decisions influenced by that knowledge, and if you feel it may be detrimental, that would really suck for them. It's very close to the being the boss of your mate, ITMS?
*hug* :hug:
I keep this forum very private from my family and friends. I refer to it as "my mothers forum" and none of them have asked. Though in saying that i have referred a few friends here who have joined and are the silent reader types but nothing i post i don't discuss with them anyways.
It wasn't until a certain family member found me and proceeded to 'stalk' me because i had accidently come across her on another forum and found out she was pregnant well before she had announced to family. It turned messy but i didnt appreciate being deliberately stalked. I'm sure she still reads my posts but meh whatever i eventually got over it. She whinged she read things she didn't want to know but nobody said she had to 'stalk' me.
I'm too oblivious when i am out and about to know if anyone would be from BB. Misty as well as a few others i know quite well, well considering Misty you live right around the corner! :p
This is a funny question because it does my head in when I do the annual survey lol!!! I have a question: Would you recommend BB to family and friends? There are lots of, 'no, I dont want them to know'!!! Hahaha :)
wow what a great thread..
I have been feeling both ways in the past..
when i was first on BB doing IVF/ ICSI ... only my is and 2 very close friends knew i was doing it... I would have been horrified if anyone else knew so remained completely annon to everyone on here ..:hide:
after all my BFN ...s i made a couple of friends on here who were just BB friends..... anyway i had one of them ask if she could email me... since i have more than one email i gave her the one i hardly use .......:juggling:.....
she was also from Tassie and lived in a suburb of Hobart which was an outer suburb.... a VERY small area which I knew 2 pwople who lived there......I never told her i knew these people ..
we emailed for ages and finally after lots of emailing i agreed to being her friend on FB ....:D... this was a BIG step for me ...... we had a lot in common .... well now i have moved to Brissy ... I went back to Tassie to visit friends and stayed with one who lives in same suburb as BB friend and ended up meeting her .. was a good meet up and got to meet her kids too ... her and her DH both had cuddles with my baby too.
was a little weird but she was nice and her DH too .....
hey Jude .. you're prob reading this !!! lol
i used to be scared but now i have my baby i am less scared about it... I actually have 3 friends now from BB on facebook..... met one .... chatted to another heaps on the phone ... she lives in SA so a bit far away for visits and only recently someone who lives near me who i have yet to meet
i would do it again but i am carefull ....
great topic girls
I changed my username awhile ago as I realised that the username I had was a nickname from when I was a kid that friends and family knew me by and I didn't want them to recognise me on BB and also when I typed my username into google ages ago it came up with a post about my birth announcement! still does actually! I just checked!
I seen a few people say that they find their posts when they google their usename. So I decided to google mine. 20 pages in and nothing...
But all I get is Beans Beans Beans the magical fruit they make you...... :rofl: havent thought of that song in years! Oh and I forgot how healthy they are for you :rofl:
eta, did you know there is an entire website dedicated to the growing, storing and preparation and cooking of beans?
eta2, I went through 70 google pages about beans, nothing. Only I learned a lot about beans and their uses.
Ooooh, I just googled my username and no roads lead to Rome - not one single reference that actually applies to me, phew! Heaps of other people using the name, though. Weird, I came up with it in collaboration with another BB user to describe a unique situation!
I googled mine and got nothing exciting so i googled my old username and got referred to a post from a forum i used to be on where a lady was looking for me so rejoined just so i could reconnect with her! That really made my day... but i do hate how many posts are out there under my old username.....
phew -- just googled mine too ;)
funny how someone can post something in here, and we all tottle off and do it..... ;)
Love that I could be of service to the BB community in letting you know bout your names coming up in google!! lol - I always google myself but it does freak me out.
I'm highly googleable. My username is the same for everything LOL! Even typing my real name (maiden) into google images gets pics of me. My FB, Twitter, everything, I fill the first page or two I believe. Privacy fail. Lots of old forums I was on as a teenager that embarrass me too!
oh wow, PZ that is pretty awesome though! I search my name, madien and married, and I get nothing! Funny how some people are easy to search for and others are much harder.
<---sheep..lol. Googled my username and there's just lots of stuff about storm troopers! And Holden SS utes (which is where it came from anyway because when I was younger I so desperately wanted an SS ute!)
I think all the pics are from Twitter. But I'm really aware of the 'evils' of social media sites so I'm all good with being 'out there' :)
OMG....... I am so much more findable with my married name!!!! (which is a lot more unusual than my maidan name was!..... my maidan name finds a canadian winter olympian.....)..... my married name just finds me.... and some other obscure person in the UK.....
but.... I digress......
I have never met anyone from BB.... how would you figure it out anyway...??? it's not like I go around talking about TTC and the forums I'm on....
How are you able to change your username on bb?
Sent from HTC wildfire using TAPATALK, so forgive any spelling errors its a small keyboard.
Thanks for all your great answers. I am still unsure if I will say anything, I mean, we are not friends just that I see and speak to her twice a day three times a week for all of 5 minutes. I guess if the right time ever comes up I will know it and it will only be in regards to her blog not bb.
This reminded me though that when I was looking around for a forum to join I was having a look through another one and figured out I knew someone on there. I have never gone back there, Mainly because that made my choice not to join there so she could never figure out me but I just did not want to know stuff she was not willing to tell me IRL. Funny how just by a few things in a sig we can recognise someone.
I have never put anything on here that would bother me if anyone I know wanted to join but I still don't say I am member of BB. There have been times though with my friends that I have considered how BB could help them a certian times but have never said anything.
bskilner, I think you need to PM onyx.
Hmm very interesting.... Googled myself and although I found nothing about 'me' there was more hits for my maiden name which is less common than now weird. Also ad far as knowing & telling bbmembers u know IRL it only happened to.me once & I did tell because we had been fairly close in highschool & lost contact over the years. We ended up catching up 1 when I was in her town but lost contact AGAIN coz I didn't have easy net access for long time. Anyway I guess I'd wanna know if I was recognised, I don't put anything I wouldn't talk about IRL anyway- if u know me u have to get used to talking about PG BF & birth etc. Haha
Yeh I think I may vaguely know you ;):
I concur with the other wonderful advice, go from the point of the blog which is more public arena than here (especially if they were platinum and you mentioned something in passing that they'd only put in platinum, which isn't googleable)
I'm open about a lot of my life, so there are things out there on me.
But also intensely private, so if you google my personal email address the only things you find are from at least 5-10 years ago, you can't find me if you google my name, well you can find people with my name, but you can't find me :) Don't show up on a FB search either.
i think its funny ho w we all googled ourselves....... i am a famous female guitar player overseas.... lol
was just think kazzo...maybe you could tell her on bb that u know her lol might be less wierd??
She has not come on BB in over 18 months.
I would prefer people tell me they know me off here. Most BB people I know I used here to meet them IRL rather than stumble across them.
If I google my username it's the first thing that comes up :lol:
Coming from a small town there are only a couple of bb users and I have met all of them, unless there are new ones :think:
Where I work I would have a high chance of running into bbers anyway ;)
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I guess if you send her a PM - she will get an email that says someone has messaged her..... "I think I met you the other day....blah blah blah..."
I'd be a bit freaked out if it was me.... but... it'd be kinda cool too :)
I guess I could. It all depends if she has email notifications activated or not.
I was thinking I could send her a message on her blog and let her know that I know her and that I can tell her who I am if she would like. That way she can choose if she would like to know too.
I say tell her - you have background info she won't have to explain and that could be a relief to her :)
She was very happy for me to tell her:)
I thought she would be :) I'm glad you told her, now you can be BFF's! :)
Some of my BBs are now FB buddies too. We went through a lot during our pregnancy together and it's wonderful to stay in touch and share updates on our little ones.
I don't mind posting things on here that I don't want known IRL because I know that what's said on here is, well, sacred in a way I guess. I mean I can speak my mind without fear of judgment. There are things I would NEVER post on FB but I have been known to post a "BBs I need help" on FB!
...... i probably didn't answer your question.....
Yay! I'm glad you took the plunge :)