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Old Nov 16, 2016, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by shattered sanity View Post
I used to love the PHPBB boards

I should join this site just to relive the old days

(I actually saw some users online from here, so)
be careful just because they have the same users as you see here does not necessarily mean they are the same members you know here...

i am on that website and someone with the same user name as this website messaged me there I discovered that they were not in fact the same member over there as here at psych central. this person took the user name from here and some of the posts from here pretended as if they were the same person. they did not take into consideration that i knew that User personally (had introduced that user to psych central).

its the internet so there is no way to know whether someone really is who they say they are. it is very easy to go to mental health websites where people post so much details and then go to another site and "become" that same user there.

which is one of the reasons I never, never post the same things and same user name on websites i am a member, including the one in the link in this thread.

psych central even advises members to never cross post and cross post your user names from one website to another for privacy and safety reasons. so there again when I find someone somewhere else that claims to be from here with the same user name I'm usually of the thought process of beware they may or they.....may not.... be the same person.