I'm on a one day MN strike today protesting about the Facebook Like button.

[MardyStropAboutLikeButton]

There'll be no new threads or comments from me as I'm not happy to be treated as a viral commodity. (apart from the odd update from the picket line of Like button protest threads).

How can you "like" a whole thread anyway? People are going to be putting across different views, aren't they?

See- you don't even know what you are complaining about!

It's just linking people! Linking, which has been possible and prevalent since mumsnet and Facebook became popular, so, ooh about 8 years ago.

Take a chill pill.

OK neuro. Yes, maybe it is a daft protest. But there are plenty who are unhappy about the changes and this is my "idiotic" and "futile" contribution to the debate.

Link to main Site Stuff thread for banana and Eric

AS is your right, and I'm always up for a protest. See, I'm keeping you at the top of aibu by repeatedly posting

Just giving my opinion too, which is also my right.

Good luck with it.

I'm happy to be idiotic and futile.

And I've made lots of suggestions which are being ignored .

I HATE Facebook - I have good reason to stay a million miles away from it.

But MN link threads to FB all the time, so you are probably already there, loads of times, under your NN. So, how does this change anything?

even the MRA who runs the 'Mumsnet sucks' fb page links threads and quotes from here!

Oddly, just been off to look at Facebook groups, and discovered there is someone on a closed FB group calling herself Bobby MardyBra.

It's not me - although it's very flattering that you feel you need to usurp my user name love.

Fucking FB I come on here because I know the school gate mums gossip on FB and I want to avoid them

'I thought the whole point of these threads was that it was private for members' Sorry EmilyD but you've really completely misunderstood. Mumsnet's not private, never has been, is regularly quoted in the press and on the telly, and the site's crawling with journos looking for stories - all day every day, whether there's a FB button or not. Don't want to sound arsey but really don't want you or anyone else wandering around with the impression that MN is private!

er, no, it's not private for members. The Terms of Use state that while copyright on our posts remains with us, by agreeing to the Terms we grant MN a licence to publish anything we write here anywhere they like, whenever they like.

That cosy feeling of chatting in a room where 'outside' is excluded is a total illusion. The FB button simply draws attention to that fact, which was previously more easy to ignore.

You don't have to be a member or be logged in to read MN. If you thought that you did, you were wrong, and maybe it's a good thing that you know now.

Personally, I hate the thought of linking my innocuous FB page to my private rants/rages/opinions that go on MN. I have deleated my public profile just in case...May also name change...MNHQ We don't want this!

Still sulking.

Personally, I hate the thought of linking my innocuous FB page to my private rants/rages/opinions that go on MN

Don't do it then.

Can everyone just get a grip about this bloody Facebook button??? I can't believe how many threads and moaning are being devoted to this! Get. A. Grip.

MN isn't private, never has been never will be

MNHQ regularly link on FB (and twitter too I believe? to threads on MN

People have been linking to threads on MN for a very long time

You don't have to click like if you don't want

If I 'like' a thread there will be nothing to indicated to my FB friends that I have posted on it (unless they happen to know my username which most do. If I like a thread that you are posting on there will be no 'extra' way of someone finding out who you are.

I think MN engineers these Christmas hysteria things (reglardss of whethet they're 'site stuff' or not to get us all to spend more time with our families )

to get us all to spend more time with our families
I don't think anyone spent any time with their families at all Xmas 08...

What time does your strike start then?

.

Oh yes, now that I have been insulted, patronised, told off and told that I don't understand anything, I am bound to change my mind. Slam dunk.

What ruby said.

Ooh, prickly, get you!

You can get annoyed at whatever you want. Anyone else can get annoyed at you getting annoyed. Ad infinitum (and ad nauseum, for sure).

I think the point we are struggling is why you are so annoyed at something that in no way changes anything about the site in any measurable form. People can like threads on their FB. They could do it before the button. It's just one click instead of 2 and and Alt+Tab.
Seems an awful lot of fuss about a couple less keystrokes for people.

I dunno, neuro, it just brings out the awkward squad in me.