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Why is the other thread closed?!? I was enjoying reading through it?!!

I couldn't find those threads?

And what is wrong with being fed up of some aspects? It's very steange

Where did MNHQ say that there was no need for more discussion and not to create new threads?

Is it strange they deleted the thread, rather than just locked it?

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Message from MNHQ: Hi all
We've got to agree with the second poster on this thread - after five 1000-post threads on this issue, there's not much on this topic that hasn't been said , many, many times. Everyone's had a fair chance to express their views, and be heard by the folk in question - it's starting to feel like a baiting exercise now, and that definitely isn't in the spirit, so we're going to take this thread down in a short while. Please don't start further threads to go over the same ground?
Cheers
MNHQ

Thanks Run. I hadn’t posted on the last thread so didn’t get that.

Bit much isn’t it?

I think it is the opposite, Flyingbird!

Apart from a couple of the more professional instamums, they really, really don't like disclosing advertising.

They just shrug their shoulders about the children safeguarding, as they see their children as extensions of themselves, rather than autonomous beings.

Are there any other types of businesses that can't be discussed on MN?

Wow, Mumsnet - hang your heads in shame. I always thought you were better than this- a place that encouraged free speech and debate and now this? This conversation will never be over all the time people use emotional tactics to pressure people into a lifestyle they can't afford/don't need. I guess those Instagrammers who don't like scrutiny will be rubbing their hands in glee at this decision. As the mother of teenagers, subjected to social media pressure on a daily basis I am actually disgusted by this decision. You have defined your position - and it does you no favours. You have abdicated your position as a free thinking platform - let's hope someone comes along to fill the gap.

Well said @SpringSprangSprung

I hate baiting; but I agree with @madamegrizzly --not many other businesses are immune to being discussed.

If the instamums have decided converge their personalities+family lives with their businesses--it's a choice they have made; but it doesn't grant them immunity.

just like any buggy I purchase, I want reviews and I want to know what I'm going after. Same goes for instamums--I want to follow the more honest ones so that I can feel better about the content directed at me.

If Gleam want to slip me some dollar bills, hell yeah, gimme some!!
That honestly made me lol, thank you for that I needed it.
I'm skint. Gleam? Are you reading? PM me, I've apparently been doing free work for you here.

Why would Mumsnet close down a discussion on child privacy on social media? Surely it's a very valid discussion and also very relevant right now. Has anybody else seen the kids for privacy campaign?

Research shows that by the age of 2, 90 percent of children already have a presence on social media.

They posted another message too in response to comments made, along the lines of these are real people being discussed. If all seemed very odd. Perhaps facebook is now buying mumsnet as well as Instagram!

Yes, I agree FlyingBird. MN have colluded in the blurred boundaries of social media that made hidden advertising so effective but so also unethical.

On Instagram these accounts are income generating businesses and I think it is really helpful to discuss them in that manner.

If the instamums also use MN, they can keep their business hat on and see the discussion as market research. Or, they can have an anonymous account and participate as individuals like all other users.

Mind you the threads also generated huge traffic when accounts were named. Even #wanker spawned #notawanker andcssceral thousand new fawners followers.

I'm also really interested to see the outcomes of the reports that have been made to the ASA. Maybe we are all wrong and products can be placed on Instagram posts with impunity? That's a discussion worth concluding.

Madame
MN have colluded in the blurred boundaries of social media that made hidden advertising so effective but so also unethical.
I think thats a intresting point. I want to take a stand against hidden adverising and if discussion is not beening allowed will in 5 or 10 years time it becone normalised ?

I've been on threads recently where posters have been torn apart. Those are real people struggling with abusive partners, shit partners, new babies, problems and posters will literally just tell them they are ill, of rubbish, or need a dr, or 'oh you again' and yet discussing instagrammers is out of bounds? Such mixed standards.

You may not believe me, but it was a really interesting discussion. The ad transparency, the involvement of children as part of a brand name.
Some posters couldn't help themselves though and it did seem to be about personal digs and not so much about actual points raised.
When actual points got addressed, the insult flinging started.

I see they have a Twitter address @MumsnetTowers - I'll be using it to let them know what I think of this censorship.