charlie brown

MindOverChatter,

The entire CR is actually a figment of your imagination!

I must say, you have a very vivid imagination to come up with all the various characters and personalities here and all the different threads and discussions…

mod 72 and Dr. Pepper also made appearances over the last couple of days.

where’s squeak?

umm, Mr. 80, if at first you deleted it how did Popa know about it to suggest you keep it? Did the cat just get out of the bag?

i’m glad you were able to fit into that spot even after the yontiff babka! Mazel Tov on finding that stupid spot. May you be zoche to only find smart spots in the future.

lol, but you mean 4 to the 6th power, right?

mods, please change title of this thread to “General Shmooze 4096”.

I am VERY happy you are able to enjoy a heavenly ice cream/frozen yogurt. Great to hear that!

It had been MindOverChatter. Now its actually MindsOverChatter.

SenderAv – you don’t mind not having a mind anymore or did you purchase someone else’s?

LOL, glad to have guessed right!

yes, blinky, the good old gs days … when I just lurked and listened in to all the interesting conversations here. 🙂

yitayningwut,

I agree with you in principal and that’s why I originally just said its dangerous. However when AYC kept arguing that its the same as looking up names in a phone book and insisting that revealing personal info on this site is completely safe, I felt its important to show in detailed terms why thats not true – I didn’t want teens who are already here to believe that its safe and not be on guard.

Also, I don’t think any creeps need my instructions.

ayc,

Since YWN has modding, there’s no possibility of a teen being lured c”v.

See Syag’s post above. If a creep finds a teen’s name, he can then possibly find her email address or cell number – maybe he has a niece or something in her neighborhood and gets her to get it for him etc. In the small yiddishe world everyone knows someone who knows you or a classmate/family member of yours. Step 2 – creep sets up a phony YWN screen name claiming to be another teen and shmoozes with target about skool and tests and camps etc, thus gaining target’s friendship and causing her to lower her guard. He then emails or text’s target and says hey wanna go for pizza? Target, thinking she’s talking to a friend her age and not a male middle aged creep says sure, why not?

Tell me how the creep could have done that by looking for names in a phone book.

stuck,

if you need to do it, keep it vague.

“my sister got engaged recently” is much better than “yay, I’m going to Flatbush tonight for my sister’s vort”.

“Someone I know went to yeshiva xyz” is better than “my oldest brother went”.

With school, if you say that you’re nervous about midterms, no big deal – all schools have midterms. But if you say your school was just evacuated by the bomb squad, then you’ve just announced which school you go to – it will be in the news. This example actually happened here once a few years back. (I don’t remember if it was a bomb squad or whatever, but something about a school was in the news soon after someone posted that it just happened in their school. And yes, their identity was uncovered based on that together with other bits and pieces of personal info).

I’m not a posek but I would think that bending the truth a bit is ok, to throw someone off. If you don’t really have any aunts but talk about how much you enjoyed your aunt’s wedding, it could throw someone off you trail. Popa can probably give lessons on that. 🙂

gefen,

its the bits and pieces. In one thread its that you’re the X child in the family. In another its that my third sister got engaged last night … in another its your age…that your brother went to yeshiva xyz …. your sister is going to seminary xyz this year… you went to camp xyz for the past 4 summers….

Add it all up and an identity can be blown. It has happened here.

Also, remember that kids are more trusting and give info easier. You know how on your birthday thread you kept refusing to give your age? I bet most teens would have given in and revealed their age to someone who was so persistent.

You have said that your kids post here – just be aware that there are creepy people even on a site like this one and watch their backs.

yitayning and 2scents,

thanks for agreeing and reinforcing what I said.

gumball,

ask your parents if its ok with them if you let people online figure out your name, address and which school you go to etc. They probably won’t be – even if you don’t post anything that you dont want anyone to know about. As friendly as you may get with other posters here, we are all actually strangers (like the people next to you on the subway in 2scents example). there are bad people out there and you gotta be careful.

2scents – it says “2scents” on your door and in the phone book?

seriously though, if you are an adult and don’t care about your anonymity, thats fine.

when it comes to teenagers online blowing their identity though, it could be dangerous. Also, if ppl say things online that they wouldn’t want people in real life to know about, it can cause issues.

akuperma – EXCELLENT post!

I agree with Jothar also that despite the differences among us being a molehill, the fact that someone points out something wrong in another group’s hashkafa is not equal to sinas chinam.

i’m not sure exactly what boro park is. Anything outside of BP is like a foreign country but bp itself is not a country. if it was, why would we all shlep up the 17 every summer to the country instead of just staying put? Maybe its a city?

popa, please come here and drink some of my beer before I finish it myself! I drank waaaay too much already!

oooh. I’ll check brooklyn. Any volunteers for the other 3 boroughs? (btw, boro park is NOT a borough).

in case we find you, will the bobka supply be replenished today?

YT,

Thanks for the updates. I’m happy the infection is gone. I hope the bone will start healing soon and you’ll be able to feel completely back to normal.

he doesn’t mind if its gone. He’ll just tell his wife to make more. No big deal (for him).

great job! You definitely have kiruv talent and should pursue it. Seriously.

(Next time, maybe tell him that being that you enjoyed the conversation with him and he enjoyed it too – he said he likes your logic – he should join you for a shabbos meal. Not because he should believe in shabbos but just because it will be enjoyable, and he will make your day by coming, just as he made the kid’s day by shaking the lulav).

adorable,

it seems that poppa’s wife (if she exists) is your grandmother.

will you call him uncle poppa?

(if poppa’s wife doesn’t exist then you grandmother doesn’t exist either which would mean that you too don’t exist. I hope your chosson will be able to deal with that).

good.jew

you don’t need to pay jothar. (Sorry jothar for killing your one opportunity to monetize your post yourself). PBA himself said –>here<– that he wont give his wife any of his sausage from Romanian (sic)

and if you believe that post from pba, he has a whole lot more lies to monetize.

you finished eating your korban todah and you’re still hungry?!?

optimus,

do you except his apology?

ain od,

is there another yeshiva where you can learn as well which charges less tuition? $18,000 sounds rather steep. Do all Israeli yeshivos charge that much?