https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:01:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-520500 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:21:35 +0000 BSB 520500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On another site, I used to overshare. With pics. Nothing more than pics and posting on threads like this. If you had time, you probably could piece together my first and last name. </p> <p>Here on HB, I have been a little more anonymous. I've learned from my previous forum experience. I don't want to be found out. Not at this point. Maybe when I get pregnant I will share baby pics. I do understand, that since I'm rather active on online forums that I may be linked between sites by the pictures I post. But at that point, it would be stalking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-520496 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:07:22 +0000 Grace 520496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've told my city and province - but that took a while. I won't share any real names and definitely not pictures. I'm not on Facebook for that reason. I don't see the internet as a trustful place, and because Hellobee is on the internet, I won't put that info up. If I were to meet any of you in real life, I would have no problem sharing, but the internet creeps me out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-520490 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:16 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 520490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: I've never met anyone with my name either. The closest I've come is watching the news and seeing a reporter with the same name. She pronounced it differently though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-520382 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:22:03 +0000 mrsjazz 520382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: Ha! That Jem/Jerrica comment was hysterical. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-520323 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:50:08 +0000 fussygal 520323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I share general things. I agree with the commenter above about sharing enough to keep it fun and connect with people, but never my address (or even city - it's small!), my last name, or other more obvious things like cc or ss numbers! I haven't shared my pic on HB yet, but I'm not against it in the future.</p> <p>Somemes I'm paranoid that someone I know IRL will figure out who I am via HB and know personal things about our TTC journey. For some reason I'm ok sharing it with this community, but not people I see often, lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519958 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:33:01 +0000 Smurfette 519958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I won't put my last name online. Pretty careful about my first name too, since it is a common name, but not a common spelling. I don't mind saying the city where I live, but not the area. Also anything I vent about on HB, I would say to someone's face. I am also careful about telling people what baby/mom site I am on cause I don't want people to go and look for me. I like it being private. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519938 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:27:00 +0000 Mrs. Train 519938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am pretty open. As a rule I wouldn't put it in writing if I wouldn't say it in person. I think even if I didn't put pictures and names my story is unique enough that if people read about it and knew me in person they might be able to figure it out anyways. I met a woman at my mothers meeting and she asked about how many kids I had. When I told her she asked if I went to a certain OB/GYN. It was my doctor and she told me when she found out she was pregnant with her second (very close to her first) they told her about me and that I was doing fine with my three boys so she would be fine too. That wasn't even a blogging thing. That just came from my doctor, apparently I am famous in that office!</p> <p>Plus I couldn't come up with four cute little train names for my four little kids, and even if I did come up with them I would never be able to remember which kid was which name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519925 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:22:26 +0000 JerricaBenton 519925@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: That was a really good description of my 'life story!' Hahaha Jayum! I love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519920 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:18:47 +0000 tororojo 519920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JerricaBenton: I can't even stress to you how obsessed w/Jem I was as a kid. And I'm from Texas so I pronounced it like "Jayum"...there are home videos for proof. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519911 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:13:49 +0000 JerricaBenton 519911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: Haha Oh MAN- How did you figure me out!? LOL I am cracking up :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online/page/2#post-519910 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:13:25 +0000 sunny 519910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm ok with identifying our city but not our names and faces. I would love to share my LO's cute mug but I post some pretty private stuff or embarrassing questions on here and I prefer that people I know in real life not know that stuff about me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519903 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:08:22 +0000 tororojo 519903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JerricaBenton: Everyone knows that YOU have to be particularly careful about protecting your identity, since you are secretly a pop/rock star named Jem, made possible through holographic images projected by your good friend Synergy via your Jemstar earrings, which act as remote microprojectors wherever you go. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519890 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:04:03 +0000 JerricaBenton 519890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I try to be as open as I can so that I can enjoy using the site, but I wouldn't post anything very identifying, anything about our business, or even pictures of our faces. That's a little extreme but I just wouldn't be comfortable with being so 'out there.' </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519840 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:41:56 +0000 .twist. 519840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually deleted all my photos from WB because I was worried that a lot of people from a different forum would go google image searching me and that really freaked me out. (I made a bit of an impression on that website...oops). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519835 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:40:20 +0000 JoJoGirl 519835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I basically haven't shared anything except the general area of the state where I live. And revealing that made me nervous. And I've posted my photo with my face blocked out, which also made me nervous, but at least you can't google that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519828 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:39:16 +0000 mrbee 519828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsTiz: Mrs. Bee is/was the heart and soul of both sites. I help out where I can with the tech and community side of things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519816 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:34:24 +0000 tororojo 519816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: Maybe we have the same name... Probably not. I have always enjoyed being able to go by first name only w/no confusion, but you're right about anonymity. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519810 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:32:53 +0000 PurplePumps 519810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I'm pretty anonymous. I don't ever post pictures with faces, even with faced blocked, I'm wary of posting. I don't talk about the specific city I live in or anything that could link or confirm who I am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519809 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:32:51 +0000 Bao 519809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: haha ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519806 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:32:14 +0000 .twist. 519806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: people totally call me twist in real life. haha. it's 100% not even a little close to my name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519800 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:29:33 +0000 Mrs. Blue 519800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: Totally. I've heard of other people with my name, but never actually encountered one. It's fun to be unique, but it certainly takes away the anonymity that a first name alone usually provides. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519794 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:28:30 +0000 MrsTiz 519794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Oh wow, I didn't know that! How neat. So you made WB, right? Or did Mrs.Bee? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519787 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:26:10 +0000 tororojo 519787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: That's why I haven't shared my first name, either! Well, I doubt it's as uncommon as yours from what you have described but I rarely meet someone else with my name. If it was Jennifer, I'd have no problem posting it. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519785 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:26:03 +0000 Bao 519785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I get called Bao in real life ;) It's not even close to my real name lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519782 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:24:40 +0000 mrbee 519782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsTiz: Here's some more backstory on Bee's name and how the various author generations came to be!<br /> <a href="http://www.weddingbeepro.com/2009/07/14/branding-weddingbee/" rel="nofollow">http://www.weddingbeepro.com/2009/07/14/branding-weddingbee/</a></p> <p>It also explains a bit about how the anonymity helps our bloggers be a bit more open...</p> <p>@Bao: When I meet people from the site, they usually call me Mister Bee in person! It's the weirdest thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519781 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:24:21 +0000 T.H.O.U. 519781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: I agree, my First Name and LO's name is very unique. You could easily google it and have it come up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519779 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:23:56 +0000 prettylizy 519779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well my name is in my username so that is out there, I've posted our first names, not last names. I'm sue if anyone tried to find me they could, but I try not to overstate or say anything I wouldn't want to see published in th newspaper . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519777 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:23:33 +0000 MrsTiz 519777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: @Bao: Same! I'm sure he looks just like his avatar too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519774 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:21:42 +0000 .twist. 519774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: haha I agree. MrBee is just MrBee. I can't see him with a real name either. LOL. Although I'm sure your real name is just fine MrBee!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-anonymous-are-you-online#post-519766 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:20:03 +0000 LindsayInNY 519766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm fairly open online. I don't post my last name but it wouldn't matter if I did since it's super common (think Smith, Brown, etc.) However, with my last name, anyone could likely find me online and figure out where I work... I do use a separate email address with some online things (blog comments, etc.) but not all. And my HB name is my Twitter name so through there you could figure out a lot. I don't think my family could find me though? </p>