PETITION: to ask MN to remove the link to facebook from the conception threads - please add your name here if you agree

[CareBear1]

Ok sorry if this is a bit soap-boxy but I'm really fed up with seeing the facebook link 'recommend' at the top of the conception threads!! This has been a real safe haven, private space for me to offload some of my deepest feelings on these threads, the idea of even the name 'mumsnet' showing up on my fb page is deeply mortifying for me, for my own personal reasons. I like to use my phone a lot and am terrified i'm going to click on the link and it end up splashed across my fb page. I'm sure I'm being melodramatic, but please, if you at all agree with me then please add your name here and lets see if they will remove it from this section of the website!

thanks. CB.

just hide it then you won't click it.

And conception is not a private space - this is the internet.

Agree.

Of course I support you!

The bloody thing shouldn't be on any of the boards, it's one thing for someone to be able to copy & paste a link if they feel so inclined, quite another to give them a button they can click on with barely a thought :( But lots of us said so at the time & were basically told to 'put up & shut up' :(

It has been removed from some of the boards and it was my belief that conception was going to be one of the boards it was removed from - it needs to be!

Agree completely. My facebook friends do not need to know about the state of my cervical mucus via an accidental click. And it would be disasterous for my career if work people knew I was trying (yes, they will find out when it happens but that could be ages away).

yes please

Agree. Would be mortifying to click on it by accident.

agreed, get it off

Oh God yes Please get rid of it.

Agree

Agree please remove it

I agree that it shouldn't be on such sensitive boards. But please, please, please remember that this is a public board and that if you're posting private stuff, anyone could be reading it.

Yep. Agree. I hate the pervasive nature of facebook anyway (it's so navel gazing..), but it should definitely be removed in relation to something as personal as this forum.

Any response?

Agreed, please remove

I messages Facebook a few time about how unhappy I was with this on conception. In your options you can remove it. But when I emphasised how inappropriate it was I was told, quite patronisingly that it was a public forum that anyone could see anyway and that we would have to 'agree to disagree' so yes, agreed. I did try.

Not Facebook, mumsnet. Senile moment.

That's sort of missing the point, isn't it, whereismywine ? It's the link between abstract username driven content and my real life name and ID that I object to.

Me too, I think it is an appalling concept. Whilst the chance of me clicking on it are slim, it still feels despicable to me that mumsnet perceive it to be ok for there to be a possibility of this on such a delicate area that so many women depend on in times that are often lonely and difficult. There are certain topics where they have removed this button but they don't think it needs to be removed from conception. This is a joke - its an area we don't tend to share! As if I ever want people I used to go to school with/colleagues/distant family seeing all of my sperm/egg, rather sad stories. I'm so glad it isn't just me that has been upset by this.

I agree!

Agree!

Whereis, that's an unbelievable response. Surely the fact that everyone on here uses anonymous names, gives sketchy details about themselves and that there are no other identifying features needed, demonstrates that this is an anonymous online forum. The only reason i participate is that it is a national one and you would have to be my best friend to pick me out of the threads on here. Besides its easy enough to post a link to anything on fb if you are so inclined, you don't need a button on these threads to do it.

with regards to 'hiding', i can see you can hide the bar, but what about the 'recommend' button, does anyone know how to hide that?

It really jars a nerve with me, as fb 'happy announcements' and pictures have been the cause of a lot of pain for me as I'm sure a lot of others too