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

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Part of the on-going one day strike!

i dont want it. Esp as worried might click it by accident. What if i click it by accident on a personal thread. Even if i delete it right away someone still might see and that thread linked to me

MN want maximum publicity for their site. Plastering it on everyones fb page increases their profile. But you have to give permission for another application to write anything to your FB wall

get a grip.

If you don't like facebook don't go on there.

And if you think you're anonimous on mn then you're deluded.

Missing the point wannabe.

you have the same email address for fb and mumsnet and what worries me is, in the event say of you inadvertantly getting involved into a thread which later became abusive/incitement to hatred etc., I think one could be very vulnerable. Hence this is my last mumsnet post and I have taken mumsnet out of my favourites. I wasn't a very frequent poster anyway so they won't be missing me.
Whatever anyone says, if the button is clicked and you are on the thread you are on facebook whether you like it our not

Really! I thought you had to personally click the like button! That really worries me now. All those posts where I have been complaining about my SIL.

you are all mad.

This hysteria is hilarious - it really is.

If you don't like a thread on your facebook wall, then you are no more identifyable than you were already.

If people didn't realize that they weren't anonimous on the internet before now only they are to blame for being so spectacularly naive.

I agree WannaBE - I am not intending on hitting the button - beyond that I don't believe that the button will do me any harm.

More people may come onto MN. That is about it.

lesley33 you have to personally click the like button for it to appear on your facebook wall.

it's mass hysteria over nothing.

I'm tending to agree with Trills and WannaBe. If you don't want to be outed then don't click the like button. If someone else clicks it that won't make you identifable to anyone that may know you. Even if it was posted by someone you are friends with on facebook quite unlikely in the first place other people would still have no reason to connect it to you. The only way it may out you is if you personally 'like' lots of threads that you have posted on. In which case it would be your own fault

If LurkyMcLurker (whose real name is Fiona) clicks on the button then:

The thread will be posted to Fiona's facebook wall.

It will say "Fiona likes this thread on this website".

It will not say "Fiona is LurkyMcLurker"

Fiona's friends may click on it and read it.

That is all that will happen.

i MN using an ipad and yes I may have accidentally pressed on Report or Message Poster but thats because they are right at the bit where my fingers scroll up and down. I am finding it difficult to accidentally press a button which is at the top and in next to the thread title.

I THINK ALL THIS LINKING TO FB will be the downfall of mumsnet.

we will all have to watch what we say, and it will never be the same.

Trills, the 'friends' may recognise her in it.

but Fionas a lurker and she is only liking the thread. You can like any thread you want even if you haven't posted on it so how would her friends know what poster she is.

Carrie you have always had to watch what you say! Its the internet FFS, what you type on here will be available and searchable forever more on the internet

Why would anyone want to Like there own posts anyway? Why is there an assumption that if you like something that you have actively taken part in that discussion?

I've previously linked to a Classics thread on here which I never posted on and was years old but though the person I sent it to would find it funny. I'm pretty sure her first thought wasn't Oh I wonder if has posted on that thread

I've just clicked like.

All my FB friends are laughing at us

Yes but imagine that I have been contributing to a thread on, say, AIBU or Relationships and said some stuff and then 'like' it in a moment of madness or incompetence and suddenly all my friends are seeing stuff that looks suspiciously like it could have been written by me and there are an awful lot of extra details and opinions ....

Plus, I just fate Facebook.

Fiona may or may not have posted on the thread. If she is worried about her friends recognising her on MN then she should just not lick the button.

If you are worried about Fiona's friends recognising you then maybe you shouldn't be posting in such detail about yourself. Fiona and her friends are no more or less likely to recognise you and out you than any other lurkers or members.

If you are worried about Fiona's friends recognising you because Fiona has linked them to MN then basically you are saying that you don't want any more people to look at MN, ever.

You couldthen delete the post on FB.....

well if you personally link a thread with identifyable information about you on fb then you have only yourself to blame if people recognize you.

It's very simple really - if you don't want to be recognized from your posts on public website then don't post sensitive indentifyable information about you on a public website.

The presence of a like button doesn't make you any more or less identifyable - anyone can copy a link from here and paste it on to fb/twitter/any other social network.

Still hate FB.

FB IS optional you know!

Why all the fuss about the new like button? There have been share on facebook and twitter buttons for months, already.

I don't have accounts for either and they don't get my knickers in a twist.

And agreeing that you never put anything out on the Internet that you wouldn't want to be read.