If you recognize someone here do you tell them?

[lg28]

Feb 4, 2015 19:31:57 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Feb 4, 2015 19:18:56 GMT -5 changedname said:

After I friended rugbywife on fb for the gtg, I realized she works with one of my good friends and my h knows her.

Oh yeah, I recently friended lg28 and some of her fb friends are friends with people I know. But she went to the university down the street from mine so it's not shocking.

I wondered if we would have mutual friends! I figured we would.
I don't think I've ever actually realized I know someone on GBCN though.

[raangoli]

I PMed justjen when she posted something that made me realize that we had friends in common. It was not weird, at least I don't think it was!

[azurely]

No I like to pretend I'm anonymous, and that would force me to out myself as a GBCNer.

[justjen]

Feb 4, 2015 20:15:35 GMT -5 raangoli said:

I PMed justjen when she posted something that made me realize that we had friends in common. It was not weird, at least I don't think it was!

Not weird! Kinda cool, actually

[matildasun]

Feb 4, 2015 16:25:36 GMT -5 curlysue82 said:

I'm glad you posted this because I've been wondering about this and feeling weird for awhile. I mostly lurk, but occasionally post, and am starting to post more. In the past year I have recognized one regular's husband (he works in my building), and one regular from pictures they've posted. The regular is someone I'm already FB friends with. Since I hardly ever post, I feel weird about PMing them, but maybe I should?? I don't want to be a weirdo.

I met one of my husband's coworkers at a GTG for my local nest board. My signature picture was one he had in his cube, so she had figured out who I was. I was glad she introduced herself.

[sent]

I probably would send a message. But I've moved around so much, I don't have enough sufficient lasting connections to care if anyone from my past is here. However, if career colleagues see me here, well I guess out me at a conference. Not like it hasn't happened before.

Though the other day, we were at dinner and I said something like DD is not like any of the babies I read about online. The host (who is not a mom) says to me "so where do you read these mommy boards?" I got a little nervous.

[Velar Fricative]

I think @missy1 and farmvillelover tie for having the most interesting stories.

If someone recognized me IRL from GBCN I could only imagine how much they would butcher my GBCN name. "Hi, are you...Velcro Fraction?" Why yes, yes I am.

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Feb 4, 2015 19:24:50 GMT -5 amaristella said:

Feb 4, 2015 16:09:14 GMT -5 @missy1 said:

I had an interesting collision with the nest and real life a long time ago. I was on my local board and noticed a poster with sig pic of her kid with a mom-tographer's logo. A while back one of my (older) co-workers told me that his daughter was doing photography on the side. She had the mom-tographer's initials and the nestie confirmed that it was the same lady. Well a few months later, the nestie founds out her h is cheating and she was really upset because that person had photographed her kids. So basically, my co-worker's daughter was having an affair with the nestie's h.

If that were me I would totally sit back and watch and not say anything.

I had a Facebook issue once where my coworker was dating this girl. Well, my high school friend had a baby with said girl and was deeply madly in love with her and couldn't let her go and I never said anything to either party. I did not want to be an awkward link in that story. Nonono.

Then I had a much more civil/fun crossover where a guy I dated in college was friends with a guy I went to high school with (also went to my college) and the two guys knew each other. One day I commented on one of their posts and they broke out into ZOMG how do you know Stella? and then geeked out over science and everyone was happy.

I didn't say anything to anyone. The nestie probably forgot that I "knew" the other lady. A few months later my co-worker told me his daughter was knocked up. She wanted a baby so she slept with a guy at a professional conference (used him as an unknowing sperm donor). I'm just now wondering if it was the cheating husband's kid. 

[ohgillian]

I would definitely want to be PM'd. Which isn't exactly what you asked, lol.

[redheadbaker]

We were doing intro posts early on in our pregnancies on my Dec. '11 BMB over on The Bump. I recognized one girl who I met through animal shelter volunteer work. I replied to her intro post to tell her that I knew her. Because I'm socially awkward that way.

[gretchenindisguise]

In the early days of the nest an irl friend recognized me. She posted on ML about it. At the time it was fine (really early days) now I'd prefer a pm.

[Myrrhine]

I pm'd when I realized we probably knew some of the same people.

[quickstepstar]

I think it would be so cool if someone recognized me So far I haven't recognized anyone though.