"Us" and "Them"

beingmore1
beingmore1 Posts: 3,131 Member
edited November 21 in Chit-Chat
Do you tell "them" about "us"? Them being your in real life family and friends and Us being your mfp family and friends. Do you talk about us to them? Are you living two separate lives? Do they ever overlap? Or are we, your mfp friends and family, a secret? Go ahead, es-plane.....(and yes it's a funny way of saying explain)
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Real life?

    What's that?
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I do talk about my mfp friends with some of my real life friends and my sister. I hate saying real life friends because some of my mfp friends have become real life friends too and you all know who you are. As for my hubs, no he doesn't know. Not because I really have anything to hide but he just wouldn't understand and it's easier to not even deal with it.
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    I've talked about my mfp familia in real life
  • ThatLadyFromMN
    ThatLadyFromMN Posts: 301 Member
    I just say "myfitnesspal friend" but I don't say names as I don't know the vast majorities real names anyways. Lol
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    I've talked about MFP to my son but not in too much detail. He refers to it as "Your Fat Friends" I think he's hilarious.

    PS he's only 15 years old.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    Some of my MFP friends (that I have met here over the years) are now my real life friends. So yes, I have mentioned things here and there and vice versa.

    For the most though, my health/fitness interests stays put here.
  • work_on_it
    work_on_it Posts: 251 Member
    I don't - no one around me is working out or trying to eat better or anything - this is my own little space - there's like mindedness here - you people are just nice enough to let me visit :p
  • SEAHORSES4EVER
    SEAHORSES4EVER Posts: 1,553 Member
    I've shown my sister and my friend the forums, they laughed a lot and said I was crazy.
    The people from mfp that I talk to outside of here I consider actual friends and so I feel no need to hide them and may have mentioned them once or twice.
  • YearOfTheDragonLeo
    YearOfTheDragonLeo Posts: 215 Member
    edited August 2017
    if it pertains to the conversation.
  • SEAHORSES4EVER
    SEAHORSES4EVER Posts: 1,553 Member
    J_Surita3 wrote: »
    I've talked about MFP to my son but not in too much detail. He refers to it as "Your Fat Friends" I think he's hilarious.

    PS he's only 15 years old.
    :D:D
  • work_on_it
    work_on_it Posts: 251 Member
    _BlahBlah_BlackSheep_ wrote: »
    No. These worlds do not collide.

    This is just right... its just right.
  • GlucoseKitten23
    GlucoseKitten23 Posts: 35 Member
    Signed one of them contracts so I'm not at liberty to say.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    I definitely talk about these forums. Mostly when having to explain what I mean when I say "woo-science".
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    I have no friends.
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    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    amusing.
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  • sjebert
    sjebert Posts: 212 Member
    nope kept totally separate, otherwise the wife gets insanely jealous
  • CaloricCountess
    CaloricCountess Posts: 202 Member
    When I was a regular here, people offline casually knew; about me being here but that was it because anything said upon my news feed, via messages & my private group, was private & thus I kept it that way because I am respectful of other's privacy, as for anything within the forums; I just mentioned that there were public forums & so that was an invitation for them, to join themselves; if they had any interest to know more!
  • need2belean
    need2belean Posts: 358 Member
    beingmore1 wrote: »
    Do you tell "them" about "us"? Them being your in real life family and friends and Us being your mfp family and friends. Do you talk about us to them? Are you living two separate lives? Do they ever overlap? Or are we, your mfp friends and family, a secret? Go ahead, es-plane.....(and yes it's a funny way of saying explain)

    I am facebook friends with some of my MFP friends and I even have some of their phone numbers because I've gotten that close with some. Others I keep at a fair distance. But I do talk about my MFP friends to my husband and such. This life is a part of me. There's no shame in that.
  • Presleykay22
    Presleykay22 Posts: 2,449 Member
    No no one really knows about my mfp world that's mostly it kept secret place just me and my community.
  • KaroshiQueen
    KaroshiQueen Posts: 213 Member
    I generally refer to MFP'ers and my Twitter Fam as my "online friends". Nowadays, I tend to prefer my online friends over the real life ones, because we don't have as much in common anymore.
  • benstronger
    benstronger Posts: 381 Member
    beingmore1 wrote: »
    Do you tell "them" about "us"? Them being your in real life family and friends and Us being your mfp family and friends. Do you talk about us to them? Are you living two separate lives? Do they ever overlap? Or are we, your mfp friends and family, a secret? Go ahead, es-plane.....(and yes it's a funny way of saying explain)

    Wow, this question is DEEP and good job on the phrasing! :joy:

    My close friends know I'm on MFP being the meticulous, attention to detail, scale-hoarding person that I am today. My family doesn't know about this app, they just think I'm a gym rat.

    I don't live two separate lives. I treat everyone on here just like how I treat everyone in real life - be nice to me, I be nice to you.
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