Is everyone aware that Mumsnet are posting your threads on Facebook?

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If you knew that already then that's grand.
If you expected it and are fine with it, great!

What I feel deeply uncomfortable with is, is OP's having very specific and detailed stuff out out by MN on FB.

There seems to be little choice happening here.
Less anonymity.

I am now worried about posting on MN Inca we it's posted on fb.

AIBU!

But that’s just going from one public forum to another

MN are on all sorts of social media and the press, radio, TV run the stories.

Yes, I knew this happened.

I don’t get the big deal. Mumsnet is a public forum, FB is a public forum.

Nobody is going to be following MN on FB if they don’t already go on MN.

And who is going to be randomly sharing Mumsnet posts from FB that are nothing to do with them?! No-one. And if they do (which they wouldn’t), it will be to their 200 FB mates. As opposed to MN, which is read by 100s of 1000s of people around the world.

To be honest, I don’t understand why people post on MN, anyway. I mean, it’s great that they do - it gives me something to read. But I have never had an issue in my life that I couldn’t just figure out on my own - I have no idea why people need to come on to a forum and ask a load of strangers how to adult.

And as for the general chat threads, who cares if they’re shared?

YABU.

One of my threads ended up in the Mirror, thankfully my SIL who was slated during the post doesn’t read the paper, that could of been very awkward!

Are you purposely misconstruing that post?

MN is a public forum, yes, to anyone that chooses to access it and read it. If a story is shared amongst people's Facebook profiles then it's shared to an audience who wouldn't have visited the website and therefore wouldn't have seen it.

They are also posted on Twitter.

And OP can’t be worried as she has illustrated it without trying to cover up the text of the thread on Facebook.

I knew and I'm ok with it, no less private than Mumsnet itself 🤷🏻‍♀️

Uh, what??

The problem for many people is that the threads will reach a much wider audience of people if shared publicly on fb. People will worry that friends and family are more likely to identify them.

Who do you envisage is going to be sharing some stranger’s MN post on FB?

This is the bit I don’t get.

Facebook is like a rash you can't get rid of, its everywhere.

It's public anyway on here, best to use use an anonymous type username and change it often

I thought you had to join the group on Facebook to access site and be approved like many online Fb groups itms

MN is a public forum, yes, to anyone that chooses to access it and read it. If a story is shared amongst people's Facebook profiles then it's shared to an audience who wouldn't have visited the website and therefore wouldn't have seen it.

So what though?

So a few more people might see a thread because they just happened to be on FB when a friend of theirs commented on it

That makes zero difference considering when you start a thread on MN, you have no idea how many people are going to read it anyway. I mean, posts stick around on MN for donkey's years.

I don’t think you do, you just follow the page.

But who is going to follow Mumsnet on FB, if they don’t already go on Mumsnet…?

I've been on Facebook for around 15 years and I have never ever seen a Mumsnet post on there. Zilch. Nothing.

If anyone puts anything on any kind of online forum or social media they have to accept that they lose all control of what they've written the moment they post it.

Because it's a public page on FB, if someone on your friend list comments on a MN post (on FB), it can appear in your newsfeed.

Goodness me, the low levels of technical literacy on here is worrying at times

Can we unpack this?

Because I’m seriously not getting it.

Who is following MN on FB that doesn’t already go on MN?

And who is doing all this mysterious sharing of MN’s FB posts of complete strangers?

I am very

Those worried about this will spit feathers when they realize MN even advertise posts on FB. So you don’t even have to like the MN FB page to see it!

And I too have been on FB for years and years and have never seen a Mumsnet post on my newsfeed, despite having friends on here.

Which means it will reach an audience of 🤷🏻‍♀️ 200 or so people.

MN already has an audience of 100s of 1000s of people around the globe.

Exactly.

There are millions of MN users.

People are getting in an utter flap over …. nothing.

YABU. If you are posting here you are posting publicly on social media.

Anyone can lift it for any reason.

And.....?