Northern California Nesties
CarFar
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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Are you more or less comfortable sharing things here ? Is there some topics you avoid all together on here ? Do you have any self set rules about what you'll post about ? Do you like a certain level of anonymity ?
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Yes, I rarely talk about my family and try not to use their names. I never really share any stories where I need advice or to vent. I suppose I just feel those things are too personal and can bite me in the butt if someone I know figures out who I am.
More or less comfortable than what? Before or real life?
There's definitely a line I have about how much personal stuff I'd share on the nest. And there are certain minefield topics that are just off limits because people get offended very easily, things like TTC and infertility.
There are definitely topics I avoid, or for which I highly censor what I say. And there are other personal matters that I wouldn't share on here, because you never know who is reading, how people will (mis)interpret it, and what someone could do with that info.
I do this in "real life" as well. Some topics are just not fit for certain situations or people. For instance, there are some people I won't talk politics with at all (because they're too rigid in their beliefs, and intolerant of different viewpoints). There are some people (who are rather close to me even) that I won't discuss certain things about my family with (because I've learned from experience that they're too judgmental and would likely hold things against me that I had zero control or influence over).The only person with whom I'm a completely open book is my DH, and that's fine with me.
I dont post anything that I wouldn't want some random person on the street to know. So that basically means most personal information I don't go into detail or share a lot on or post many personal pics. I stick to general subjects.. exercise, cooking, travel, etc. I treat this as a very public place and I know people are lurking that I either know or indirectly know.. let alone millions I don't.
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Are you more or less comfortable sharing things here?
more/less comfortable than where?
Is there some topics you avoid all together on here?
anything i consider boring or annoying. (wow, I sound like a ***)
Do you have any self set rules about what you'll post about?
the same ones for my daily life, really.
Do you like a certain level of anonymity?
anonymity is really not something that exists for the average person. If someone wants to find you/find out about you - they will. and if you really cared about being anonymous, you wouldn't be a regular on a chat board as unsecured as this one.
to answer my general question guess I do avoid some topics, but somethings I think I'm more likely to share on here. I'm kinda anonymous I suppose to a random lurker, but since I've met a lot of you IRL it's hard sometimes to remember there are lurkers hiding. Lol
I'm wonsering if maybe this general feeling of needing to be more guarded has lead to a decline in posts ?
I think it probably has contributed to it a little. I think the fact that many of us are FB friends has also just made the board feel redundant. I still come here because I'm out of work. But if I had a FT job I wouldn't be here anymore. It's too time consuming to check it when it's not active anyway. If I was working FT and it was active still, I wouldn't have time for it.
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