To not want MN to have anything to do with Facebook?

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Part of the on-going one day strike!

I don't want MN to have anything to do with Facebook, either.

Mumsnet think we want to link Mumsnet with all parts of our lives. Not all of us do, thanks.

Neither do I. I can't be bothered with Facebook.

I loathe Facebook. Lots of us on MN don't want to have the link.

Am i being a bit thick but surely if you dont click a like button on MN then the 2 will never be linked??

The thing is, MN is anonymous. Facebook isn't. We might post stuff on here that we wouldn't share on facebook (especially with the MIL reading it, or our partners and family etc). I wouldn't use the button because I don't want to out myself and have people being able to identify me with my posts on here. But I just won't use it.

YABU

HTH

YANBU. I hate this recent development, for all the reasons on the 'site stuff' thread.

YANBU.

Even the 'supporters' of this step say it adds no new functionality.

So it is unnecessary whilst simultaneously annoying many posters.

I agree with EdithWeston.

It's only really good for Mumsnet, to let FB people know that, if they didn't know already, there is a Mumsnet. I'm not on FB any more but there's no WAY I'd be clicking anything if I still was still active on there.

YANBU,

I thought it was a facebook thing & spent ages changing privacy settings & logging out trying to get rid of it. Just in case I hit that 'like' button by mistake.

Now I realise it was a mumsnet thing.

Stupid idea.

Mumsnet is a business, this is for them, not for its users.

Oh dear.

I don't like it either, but that simply means I shan't click on it!

Yawn
You aren't on strike you numpties, you are posting

Here>>>>>>> GRIP

I don't get the problem. Just don't press the button? If you keep your profile clean and are careful about how/what you post (as you should be online anyway) there is nothing to worry about, is there?

It's clear people are not getting this. The thing is, threads will be linked if someone else presses the button- even if you, the poster, don't.

but Lucky, if I liked one of your threads, how would my FB friends "know" you are you? Would my FB friends even care?

I link threads from here all the time. Funny ones. Have done for ages. As have many of my fb friends. This is nothing new. People on this site regularly copy threads and save them. I know because when a contentious thread goes poof, someone always comes along and says 'Well, I know what happened in the end because I saved it'. If it's out on the net, it's out. Anyone can copy it, email it, pass it on. I don't understand why there is this panic about the like button. Genuinely.

redlac- It depends. Do we know each other in real life? Doubt it. Would maybe one of your FB friends be able to identify me from something I'd posted? Doubt it. But there are 1.5 million Mumsnet users, all of whom potentially have hundreds of FB friends, any one of whom might be reading or indeed decide to like it themselves. Somebody eventually clicks through, read something sensitive that I'd posted on the basis that this is supposed to be a relatively anonymous forum. Without my having gone anywhere near the "Like" button.

Not what I signed up to. Yes, yes, yes, I know it's still publicly available via Google searches and what not but there is a big difference between FB's aim of ruthless social networking and MN's aims. I guess the answer is if we post here to never ever post anything sensitive by which we might be identified. And there goes the support system of MN for many.

Well said, LuckyRocket.

I won't be using the like button.
I really don't want any connection between my activity on MN and my RL user details on FB.

That doesn't mean that I wouldn't like the odd MN thread posted on the MN FB page - from within FB.

I don't understand this at all: How does this compromise my anonymity any more than posting on here currently does...i.e., by posting something under a pseudonym that someone might guess is me?

I think it may undermine your anonymity if you regularly 'like' threads on which you have posted. As a one-off it won't make a lot of odds, but if you use the feature a lot it will be clear to your FB friends that you are a MNer and they maybe more likely to spot your posts (because they recognise your typing style, or a distintive event in your life etc.).

With regard to threads coming up on google that's only if someone is looking for particular advice on a topic.

Random trolls or 15 yr old boys are unlikely to come across any mn sensitive issues unless they land in their laps in their fb pages

Yes it will increase traffic to the site, but will it be the right sort of traffic?