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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes - mostly when I see a post on here and then an identical one on a large parenting listserv I'm on.  When they're verbatim, it's not hard.

I once saw posts calling out someone I know IRL, who was very (very) active on various parenting FB groups during covid.  That was creepy.

I also realized someone in a mom's group I was in was the same person I'd been on a TTC thread with - and she's easily recognizable in other forums, too.  Again, a case of her posting a very specific story here and then the same one on FB.[/quote]

Yeah, I have seen this, too. When the posts are very close in time and the language is the same, it's really obvious. Like someone will post on here asking about a specific school related to the DC lottery, and then the same post will pop up on our parenting listserv, asking for the same feedback. I don't judge -- obviously I'm on the same threads on DCUM so I don't see anything wrong with it. Though admittedly I would not do this because I do think other people would judge. So I make some effort to make my DCUM posts more anonymous than that.

There was also as situation where a woman I know socially appeared to be posting about similar issues/events here and on Twitter. She has a distinctive way of writing and interacting with others, though not completely unique (she is one of the kiddo/hubby people). But I am pretty sure it was her because it would be something like: she'd retweet something on Twitter with a comment, and then 20 minutes later someone would start a thread on here with a link to the same tweet and a very similar/almost identical comment. And then the OP's replies in that thread would just really sound like her. It happened a few times and at first I assumed it was a coincidence but eventually I decided it's almost definitely her.[/quote]

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