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Specializes in IMCU.

Call me paranoid but....

Surely I am not the only person who thinks that, if you are going to complain/vent or whatever on allnurses.com, your location and/or school should be withheld?

If you have posted the name of your school, facility or your location IN ANY PREVIOUS POSTS I would be very careful what you post. Opinions get shared really freely on this board (this is a great thing) but I sometime really worry for the posters. One wouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to identify some posters. So what you say about instructors, schools and fellow students might not officially bite you in the bum but an ounce of prevention...

I know I could be identified so I don't post what I wouldn't be prepared to say in person (but I am older and care a bit less).

Good idea..."names may be changed to protect the innocent!" lol

Specializes in IMCU.

Exactly!

Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

The general membership would be shocked to know how many members frantically contact the moderators to have posts/ threads removed. This is because someone at work/ school, etc., has identified them and their information/ opinions from their posted threads and now they are in danger of losing their jobs or in "hot water" at nursing school because of their postings.

The Internet is not as anonymous as one might think. This is a highly trafficked web site, with thousands of hits daily. Don't post anything here that you wouldn't want to say in person in front of a crowd of strangers, friends, coworkers, or fellow students/ instructors.... because they all may be reading your posts and figuring out who you are!

Thank you, DolceVita for your sage advice! ;)

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

So very true!

The internet is not anonymous and all it takes is one slip of the keys!

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