Posting little details of our life on various threads…

Wouldn't it be funny if we're all interacting with people in GN who make up lots of falsities about themselves! 🤣
I wouldn't be too sure!

I agree with Grannygravy not everyone’s intentions are honourable.
If you divulge too much of your life on threads you can easily be identified too when you might thing you are anonymous.
Sad, as so many get joy from being a part of the grander community.

*gransnet

Good advice, GG. Thanks.

escaped

Wouldn't it be funny if we're all interacting with people in GN who make up lots of falsities about themselves! 🤣
I wouldn't be too sure!

If any public forum has mostly authentic posters that would be Gransnet I do believe.

When I call my dog back into the house after his late night wee wee I call " MAX" not " TIDDLES".

It is quite concerning when people put a lot of personal information on here or any other forum.

This is the Internet after all and anybody can see what is written.

Jennifer
The alpaca farm! I remember it so well and what a tale that was.

Millie22

It is quite concerning when people put a lot of personal information on here or any other forum.

This is the Internet after all and anybody can see what is written.

Jennifer
The alpaca farm! I remember it so well and what a tale that was.

I too remember that awful thread. So many of us expressed genuine sympathy for what seemed like a family tragedy but turned out to be a cynical and heartless invention. I can’t even remember what the perpetrator hoped to gain from it but it made me much warier of believing what I read on Gransnet.
Cynical maybe but once bitten…….

Wish I’d been here for the alpaca farm, must have been believable or nobody would have been taken in.
I’m wary of any sob story or tales of wild adventures or grandiose plans.
I guess it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of security on forums.
I haven’t told anyone this before but I really live in a massive mansion in Park Lane.🤭

I think we've become more cynical on Gransnet as there have been more than a couple of convincing trolls on here who had many posters supporting them for quite a long time.

This post is a timely reminder.
My first post on GNet 4 or 5 years ago was to express surprise that so much identifying info was revealed on the Good Morning thread by one GN. I almost felt it must be false.

Since reading the GM thread over the years I can see that it does give a feeling of a cosy club of a select few.

Sadly I think all GNS especially contributors to that thread and similar regular threads must have a rethink about what they reveal and how much they use the private message facility.
This thread has made me pull my socks up.

I haven’t told anyone this before but I really live in a massive mansion in Park Lane
I wasn't going to let on, but I do know you in Real Life and really enjoyed myself when you invited me round for afternoon tea.
Your butler is very handsome, I must say

Ta Allira the butler looks like Brad Pitt, which isn’t surprising as it really is Brad Pitt, I hired him as he’s between films at the mo and needs a few bob.
Do come round again soon but kindly lay off the choccy HobNobs, you only left one on the plate last time.🤬

Was the alpaca one the one where the GNer and her H were killed in a car crash one evening and the D posted about her parents, or another one?
I seem to think there may have been two.
Was the H a retired Farmer or a Vet?

Oreo

Ta Allira the butler looks like Brad Pitt, which isn’t surprising as it really is Brad Pitt, I hired him as he’s between films at the mo and needs a few bob.
Do come round again soon but kindly lay off the choccy HobNobs, you only left one on the plate last time.🤬

He could be an AI version of Brad Pitt, Oreo and be after your Park Lane mansion.
A clever scammer. I thought his ears looked a bit odd.

^Do come round again soon but kindly lay off the choccy HobNobs, you only left one on the plate last time.^🤬
I don't eat Hobnobs - it were Brad!

Either Brad or the rottweilers then🤔

TMI I should leave this thread before I give the address and my phone number 😲

I remember the farm story (weren’t her family killed in a road accident or similar)
I thought there was two around the same time usedtobeblonde but I could be wrong

I warned a new lady a couple of weeks ago who was posting photos of her grandson I explain why she shouldn’t and she was very annoyed and then posted another one just to ‘prove me wrong’ I guess , but then the thread was removed so maybe someone else reported it …lso silly

Do come round again soon but kindly lay off the choccy HobNobs, you only left one on the plate last time.🤬
Hobnobs? Surely cucumber sandwiches on Park Lane?! Can you not get a Fortnum's delivery?

I am not totally anonymous as I have met up with local GN members.

I am being more careful since my card was hacked, as these horrible people gain information from all sorts of areas.

Boz

The worst thread for this was "What can you see from your window".
One poster gave the area - the fact that the flat was over Sainburys and over-looking a railway station that was named.

Gobsmacked by so much info. I Googled and found the location within 2 minutes.
Frightening

I think that might have been someone close to me.
So what?
Just ignore anything dodgy surely?

It is upsetting GG13 and happened to me over 20 years ago.They had a great spending spree in London with it.
Took a while to sort out.

Yes, it's a timely reminder, GrannyGravy because scamming is big business.

GrannyGravy13

I am not totally anonymous as I have met up with local GN members.

I am being more careful since my card was hacked, as these horrible people gain information from all sorts of areas.

I do remember a while ago there was a meet-up I thought of going to. A kindly Gransnetter offered a poster (new name) a lift but the new poster sounded very dodgy and it turned out to be a troll or, I thought, potentially a scammer, or perhaps someone who could alert another person about the Gransnetter being out and leaving her property empty.