Does anyone make posts they regret ever posting?

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I am so impulsive and overly emotional. That I will often post things I regard as embarrassing a lot later... What's terrible is that once it's on the Internet, it's there forever.

One or two people got a bit nasty about a couple of strong opinions I posted (a few years back), and I gave up arguing about it, but I don't regret saying what I did. I've also posted one or two things that I now think were oversharing, so I regret that a little bit, but no harm came of my revelations.

Maybe once in a while.

Nothing major, though.

I've done it a couple of times, but not much. I'm guessing that many years of emails in my professional life taught me the hard way to stop and reflect before hitting the Send or Submit button. The more I feel a compulsion to hit it, the more that is a sure sign that I should not.

All it took to learn some prudence was watching people shoot themselves in the foot and damage their careers (i.e. paycheck) from one ill-considered message. It hurts just to watch that happen.

Oh yeah, I've had my moments. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Someone thought I was attacking them when I was being friendly once. The mistake was too socially, and semantically complicated to correct. That was the one post that sticks in my mind that I regret making.

I feel so overwhelmed and regret after sharing somewhat personal part of me. I should not post any of personal things for the users' sake, otherwise I would keep deleting posting while it's possible or suddenly would disappear for good from here to ignore and forget the truth that I ever posted things that I only wanted to share with my true friend. I'd rather share my things via PMs or emails with the special friend who I am looking to meet someday.

often i will post something in the middle of the night when i am tired, and then get up the next day, look at what i typed and think "why the f**k did i post that".

but this is the internet though, so who really cares.

i posted something yesterday that was worded harshly. i was awake past my normal bedtime and had accordingly poor judgment.

I have always had a problem putting my thoughts to any form of media. So I do have times when I'm more embarrassed than regretful because my post was misconstrued due to my lack of eloquence.

Most of the time I don't really regret what I post. I usually think things through. When I hurt people's feelings I usually mean it or don't feel attached enough to care too much.

I do regret posting on one site that I used to vandalize Wikipedia and now have another outlet. I didn't word it the best and they ended up hating me and not believing any of my explanations.

What pissed me off is that they told me to think about what I'm posting. That was very offensive to me. I pretty much always think about what I'm posting.

They told me that they've been "watching me for a while". I had no idea they were. I never got in trouble with admins and people were replying to my posts a lot. I assumed everything was fine.

A while after that happened I created a new account using a proxy and fake birthday. Things seemed to be going fine until I created a thread about autism being overdiagnosed. I got in a bit of trouble with an admin. I wasn't sure if I was being watched before, but I decided to delete my account before they could watch me more and remember me.

After I deleted my account I created a replacement account. I still have that account. Haven't gotten in trouble with the admins, but I'm still paranoid about them watching me. I don't know if I should delete my account or not.

Haha nope, except maybe one or two drunk posts.

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Most definitely. And when people bump or post a link to an older post it's like "oh god why am I such a tool there".

I did that sometimes when I was depressed, frustrated. or in a rush.

Sometimes.

More often I'll just write whole posts then X out of the window before posting them if it makes me uncomfortable

Yes, sort of...especially when I think of different words later.