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AIBU to dislike this Facebook "like" option for threads on MN?

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Pandemoniaa · 15/12/2011 16:42

Because why on earth would I want to broadcast anything I post on her to that Den of Vipers?

I am entirely sick of the way that Facebitch appears to have crept into every sodding unrelated corner of the internet and I really didn't think that MN would stoop this low!

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Pandemoniaa · 15/12/2011 18:02

Not by just clicking a button, you couldn't.

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BrianAndHisBalls · 15/12/2011 18:02

God, Usual we always disagree Grin but I think I'm with you on this one, I just don't understand why its a problem. I don't particularly like it but I don't get how it would out you.

Maryz · 15/12/2011 18:04

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usualsuspect · 15/12/2011 18:04

I can't see how it would out you ,if you don't tell fb your MN user name

anothermum92 · 15/12/2011 18:05

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usualsuspect · 15/12/2011 18:06

People link things on fb all the time

Bohica · 15/12/2011 18:06

How does ot work then?

Say Maryz likes one of my threads about bumsex housework does that then send a link to her face book page for others to click on?

What if Maryz is hugely popular with 30,000.00 friends and one of them is also friends with me on facebook, that person clicks and reads my thread and thinks "blimey I wonder if Bohica is xxx" so they then do a search on MN and read all my old posts of rants and bitching, drunkerdness and stupidity???

Fuck.

BrianAndHisBalls · 15/12/2011 18:08

Thanks Maryz for explaining.

I was 'outed' in a bizarre way recently, I'd written a post about a toy car on here that had broken and we'd sent back. About a year later my dad is buying one of these cars from a different supplier and puts 'toy car x' into the internet and up pops my thread! Arghhhhhhhhhhhh

supadupaturkeystupour · 15/12/2011 18:08

but carol they can do that anyway......honestly! If someone that horrid comes across something you've said and wants to publish it, not having a like button will not stop them.
If people want to 'out' other people they will do so anyway.

I think it is fine.

imagine.......a friend is having difficulty getting baby to sleep and has a moan on FB. Her friends all respond with words of wisdom. Some link to books that might help, some link to articles they have read, others will link to the very good threads on sites such as MN.

This happens all the time.

I do think there should be a 'double check you want to like this and post to your wall' option though to prevent accidental postings.

I'm not trying to pick a fight at all, i really just don't see what difference it makes. Yes, FB is everywhere, but for many many of us FB is a very valuable part of everyday life and I just think that there is some kind of FB bashing that is wholly unnecessary and a bit misunderstood tbh.

And yes, I have also figured out someone's identity in the past on MN by googling a topic i was interested in and a post came up....there was a good bit of guess work involved but it was very easy to do. We all need to be careful to not out ourselves which i think we do successfully.

GincogniHoHoHo · 15/12/2011 18:12

Can anyone tell me how this button would share your identity on facebook?

It really doesn't. I think people are worrying the two accounts will be linked. They won't.

Maryz · 15/12/2011 18:14

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SoupDragon · 15/12/2011 18:15

It's shit and pandering to the thick.

SoupDragon · 15/12/2011 18:16

Although I am quietly sniggering because it seems you can only like a thread and not the individual posts that the Illiterati were asking for.

Maryz · 15/12/2011 18:19

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StupidLikeButton · 15/12/2011 18:22

I am worrie about old threads too....I am recognisable in many of my old ones...what is it they say about 6 dgrees of separation now being only 4 due to FB???

SoupDragon · 15/12/2011 18:25

How it can be appropriate to have it in "General Health" is beyond me. Did they not claim it would be trialled in chat?

FaverollesWithBoughsOfHolly · 15/12/2011 18:28

"It's shit and pandering to the thick."

Hear, hear. (or here, here?)

1Catherine1 · 15/12/2011 18:48

I find it worrying that 5 people have "liked it"...

I don't like it on here tbh. I don't like it all over the web either.

1Catherine1 · 15/12/2011 18:49

well... that solved that problem

moonferret · 15/12/2011 18:58

How do I click to "like" this thread?

ChippingInNeedsSleep · 15/12/2011 19:23

1Catherine1 - it's just people 'liking' it to see if it links to their FB or not.

1Catherine1 · 15/12/2011 19:25

yea.. I know now... I did it too Blush I was hoping I'd get the option to unlike but I don't.

reelingintheyears · 15/12/2011 19:25

ChippingInNeedsSleep Thu 15-Dec-11 19:23:41

1Catherine1 - it's just people 'liking' it to see if it links to their FB or not.

I did it once for that reason.

I shall not post on threads that are already 'liked'.

CrispLeCrisp · 15/12/2011 19:26

Please get rid of it MNHQ - it is not big and not clever in any shape or form. Totally inappropriate Xmas Angry

I will be asking for my old posts to be deleted as i am sure many others will be Xmas Sad