To never use MN again

[Sickened007]

Noticed a post on here about a post being posted on "the sun" this made me realise just how unsafe this site actually is and I no longer want to use it

Link please?

The OP was removed but I noticed it earlier

It’s anonymous though? I don’t know anyone who reads the sun

All kinds of media outlets post MN threads, it's how I found MN, where have you been?

You do realise it’s a public forum don’t you?

The daily mail also regularly screenshots posts. This is a public forum

Yeah but the post was a sensitive matter

It's not good that they do this but this is a public forum, I think people forget what that means.

It happens all the time. Be careful what you post and you'll be fine. Name change often.

Sad but lazy journalists use this site to feed off for stories without permission.

This is nothing new. I'm more surprised you didn't realise this was a public forum.

MN isn't unsafe but you are naive if you don't realise that all newspapers lift stories from MN and other social media. This place is a great source of information and support. Posters just have to weigh that up against the likelihood of having their threads lifted.

*Yeah but the post was a sensitive matter,

But it's a PUBLIC forum. If you use nay other, it will be exactly the same. Except few exceptions

This has been happening for years.

It's nothing new. This place crawls with press, daytime telly etc. Tbh I think half the stuff they lift was put there by them anyway.

I’m surprised that your only realising now that the gutter press regularly trawl MN.

I was obviously aware it was a public forum just wasn't aware media use it for their sickening benefit

Yeah but the post was a sensitive matter

So why did they post it on a forum that claims to get 100,000 unique visitors every month? Rather than not posting on MN, a fsr better approach would be not to include readers of the Sun, Mail or Mirror in your social circle.

Id stay away from twitter instagram and facebook as theyre unsafe too

Guess it just made me cautious that's all

Think you need to step away op. If it was that sensitive then the op either didn’t mind she was posting on a public forum or didn’t mind discussing it.

Either way- yabu

I do find if off putting that the papers lifts stories from MN. I appreciate it’s a public forum and you chose to post on it but i certainly don’t chose to have anything I may or not say in a newspaper (not that I have of yet)

It’s a public forum. None of this is secret or hidden.

You must be fairly new to Mumsnet then?

Mostly all tabloids and lots of TV shows feature MN threads

If you post something on a public forum, you have to be prepared for this sort of thing.

Actually even if you posted it on a 'private' forum, it's still not private as long as other people can read it.

But anyone reading the Sun can read MN Op

This has been going on for ages, and not just with MN (just in case you thought you’d be ‘safe’ moving to NM or BC etc). Easy fodder!