to think people should stop whining about the FB Like button, especially those who don't understand it.

[NeuromanticisedVisionsofXmas]

It changes nothing.
MN has been linking to FB for a long time. People have been posting threads to FB for a long time. If anyone likes the thread it appears on their wall but it does not identify you in anyway.

And the main point...everything you write here is already on the internet for the entire universe to read.

There is an FB like button on everything now. Everywhere you look online. If you don't like it, don't click it and your life will go on exactly the same as before.

The foot stamping and moaning about a minor insignificant change is really getting tedious.

yanbu i thought the same tbh

I use MN on my iPhone and can't see this Fb button where is it and has it always been there??

YANBU
I won't click it, because I don't want to out myself. I tend to post a lot in Conception and Pregnancy and I don't want the world to read about my sex life. Especially not family members!

But, as you say, if you don't like it, don't click it. The problem is easily solved.

hear hear!

It is precisely some of the people who don't understand what it does who are most at risk from it, eg new and/or vulnerable users facing the possibility of losing anonymity.

'Foot stamping and moaning'. That's a bit harsh.

I think people should stop making threads about the Facebook Like button.

HTH.

yeah neuro

you forgot about the flouncing

they aren't at risk from anything. Some seem to think that MN is a private space that no-one can see you until you are linked to FB. It's not.

Its not harsh, its all over the place, the moaning about not wanting to be on FB. Wise up peeps, MN posts several threads a day to FB, you are already linked to FB and have been for years!

No one going to answer my question

It's not visible if you are using the mobile site or the iphone app I think Susie - and don't be silly with the sad face.

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.

Yes, but if fionas friends happen to use mumsnet, what's the chances they will figure out her usename and then she's outed

But Fiona maybe hasn't even posted on the thread that she likes - her friend would be a stalker sort if she read every post to try and figure out what one (if any) was Fiona

I have at least 5 FB friends who also like the Mumsnet page on FB and are mumsnetters so I know that anything I write on here will have the chances of being read by someone I know however unless I write my name is Doris they won't know my MN nn

Trills your cutting & pasting skills are getting a workout today! :)

If you don't like the button, don't use the button, then you are not Fiona and so your friends won't be told that you use Mumsnet.

Fiona gets about a fair bit.

Erm yes, Fiona is not going to link if she doesn't want people to know, but if she clicks in error,it could be an issue
I think it depends how you use mumsnet
I have fb friends, even best friends, but wouldn't want them to see my posts on here, way too personal

And Fiona may be a bit sad and pissed and vulnerable one night.

I understand it and I also don't like it, and never have done. I don't like the mix of the relative anonymity of Mumsnet (yes, yes, yes I understand perfectly well that there is no such thing as privacy or 100% security on the internet) and the non-anonymous world of facebook.

Facebook is mainly inane, anyway. I don't like the link between the two even though it has always been possible and even though I am not paranoid about someone I know in rl finding out my Mumsnet name and searching all my posts.

I gave up posting anything personal after the Daily Mail farce of a couple of years ago.

What was the Daily Mail farce of a couple of years ago? I have only been posting on MN for about a year.

(And wondering if I should continue...)

I'm not saying that I want or like or will use the button, I just don't think it is as big a deal as everyone is making out (and it sounds as if a lot of people don't understand what will happen if someone clicks it).