Should we worry about 'perverts' reading our posts?

I tend to be suspicious of any first time poster who, for example, mentions clitoris in the title.
Tends to happen more when the schools are out.

What angers me is when genuine gransnetters spend their time giving advice when it is some pubescent teenager getting off on it.

So many of us are quite naive and need to be warned that this is an open forum.

I didn’t comment on that particular health thread as I didn’t want to add fuel to it, so to speak, but had my doubts. Did the OP ever reply to the posts? Did she (?) have to use such a precise word to explain the area? Would you mention this subject while chatting to a mixed group you don’t know?

Oh no.
I have some standards.
I'd say "fanny".

I wouldn’t post anything confidential or intimate on GN, even if I had a pseudonym.
I don’t think the problem is perverts ‘getting off’ on threads which discuss such things, but that if a genuine poster does share intimate details, they are then opening up the possibility of receiving private messages from the sort of people they probably wouldn’t want a private message from.

Doodledog & Fanny - I don’t think you don’t need a different email address to change your username. You can just de-register & then re-register with a different one. Some quite prolific posters have had 5 or 6 different user names.
It’s possible that if you have two or more email addresses you could have more than one username at the same time.
But I think that’s against the rules & GN would know because it would be the same IP address. I think ?

You can just go to 'my account' and fill in a second choice of name.
It's that simple.

I don't have an opinion either way on the genuineness of the poster, but someone who can post to strangers about an intimate problem, and knows the right name for the body part they are talking about, is quite savvy enough and confident enough to consult a GP about it - as she was sensibly advised by many people.

The thread everyone is thinking about has been deleted by HQ!

I don't think you can understand or predict anyone's fetishes. That said I wouldn't share intimate detalis with anyone, telling a doctor is hard enough. I actually don't read these threads. I don't want to know.

this needs to be deleted too, otherwise it will run on and on!

I wouldn't put anything on here which could cause embarrassment even under my user name and if I see something which is intimate I tend to ignore it as my first thought is that it's probably not genuine.
I would have thought that there are enough forums on the internet which are for 'specialist' tastes (and some very questionable indeed) rather than using GN.

Did she (?) have to use such a precise word to explain the area?

Is there another word for clitoris?

I have to say I didn't smell a rat with that thread, because the OP was straightforward and matter of fact, and mentioned atrophy. Nothing sexy or turn-on about that - seemed quite a genuine enquiry, and I'm usually a big cynic.

The sh*t threads don't get deleted and they entice a whole load of posters who show great interest!

And there have been quite a few of those Riverwalk

Gosh hadn’t even thought of that. I’ve answered posters posts that ask intimate advice on some of the more intimate parts of menopause, are there people that are such leches that get off on that? ?

Riverwalk That was the thread I replied too. ? I’m confused was it a ‘fake’ post?

Grannynannywanny

Thank you MissAdventure ?

Being the sensitive little soul that I am, I’ve been embarrassed about it since another poster replied to me and said grannynannywanny or whatever ever your name is it’s too long. Ouch!

No don't change it grannynannywanny. It's what my GC say when they're at my hoyse and bouncing up and down with excitement! ?

Grannynannywanny ignore! No-one's business but yours, what a cheek!

Dilly I don't know if if was fake but GNHQ has deleted it!

I thought it genuine and replied.

The problem is that we all think it’s a ‘She’ it could be anyone, could be some old twit surrounded by other old twits in a pub, or young idiots doing the same in a cafe ( do youngsters still go into cafes.?)
Who knows?
But there are always kind GNers who will offer advice, which is a good thing as we all try to take the questions at face value.
Just don’t put any personal identifying stuff on the post.
Much more of a problem is if they PM you, they can be blocked, but can then pop up again with a different name.
All of our messages are being analysed by GNs computers to find out more about us, so best to keep it vague.

I tend to agree with Marydoll; why would anyone who had a problem of a very personal and intimate nature, post on a public forum for advice? Random strangers aren't qualified or equipped to give medical advice and can only ever offer up "Go and see your GP", which the poster knows anyway. I admit to reading those kind of threads with a good pinch of scepticism anyway.

We are all anonymous on here - unless we reveal too much - so why worry about perverts?

They'll find something, somewhere, to interest them but it's not connected, at all, to the person posting or commenting.

Thank you everyone for the vote of confidence in my daft name!

Just as some of you have experienced, it’s one of those funny things my 4 gc started calling me when they were little. I was frustrated trying to register an unused name and typed that in and let it go without noticing it was indeed rather lengthy.

I could actually have used my full name which has frequently been grannynannywannypanny but that might have been a step too far ?

trisher

I don't think you can understand or predict anyone's fetishes. That said I wouldn't share intimate detalis with anyone, telling a doctor is hard enough. I actually don't read these threads. I don't want to know.

Agree Trisher exactly that.

There are many members who write about their health problems - I think they're not looking for direct medical advice just putting out feelers as to if anyone else has the same condition or symptoms.

A lot of members seem to have mental health issues - are they not to post about them instead just go to the GP?

I think if you have been on GN for a long time you can spot certain t.... posts and they are not necessarily on medical matters.
What is really upsetting is many posters really trying in all sincerity to advise and help with some of the “problems” that are posted.
I suppose it happens on all social media, there is no easy way of stopping it.

I dont think anyone is saying dont post riverwalk it's fine to share experiences but they are going to need to see a doctor as well. I think the people responding were doing a good job of waving a flag to say this may not be as it seems. I thought they did it quite politely. I dont post on threads I am concerned about as I would not be as polite as those posters were.