A friend of mine just pasted an extremely personal email to me, into an IRC channel we both frequent, by accident.
I want to die.
There’s nothing proving it was me who wrote to them - but anyone who knows us will pretty much figure it out for themselves. And I go there every day; I can’t just not show up anymore. I feel so exposed, and stupid, and exposed, and dumb. Did I mention exposed?
Who else has had this particular thing happen to them, and how long did it take to pass over?
Just act like it never happened. Don’t bring it up, continue on as usual. You would be amazed at how fast people forget from one hour to the next what they saw where, especially people that use the net a lot. I wouldn’t worry about it and don’t be embarrassed. The worst think that I can say happened to me several years ago, someone thought that they were sending a private message to their friend, instead it came to me, and it was about me. I never said a word about it, just brushed it off, even though I was a little more hesitant around the person.
Thanks, ultress. That’s pretty much what I’m hoping for - the forgetting, I mean - thing is, there’s one girl in there with a slight grudge toward me, and I’m a little worried she might pick it up and decide to use it against me.
Crap, crap, and crap. Anyone else with stories to make me feel slightly less embarrassed and alone?
It was probably two years ago now, but I was in an IRC chat whispering to two different friends, telling them about a situation that had happened with some other friends. I was writing to one, then copying and pasting that to the other, when the inevitable happened and I pasted a long paragraph full of personal information into the chat. I was horribly embarrassed and the two friends who were in the chat with me and I typed things frantically to scroll it all up.
I emailed the friends I’d been talking about to tell them what happened, just so they’d know, but no one said a word about it to anyone involved. And those two have almost forgiven me now, I think.
It’ll pass, really.
Well, the only thing that’s happened to me are the typical cyber ahem mishaps with private and public chat 