what the actual is that facebook like button doing there?

[CarolCervix]

has it always been there? or has it moved? and does that mean if someone 'likes' that thread it will be posted to their fb page?

Ahhhh having just written that I see maybe why the link button is there MNHQ huh

It's one of the reasons why many of us don't have a profile on here, namechange often and lie about a few significant details.
For example, I'm not a teacher, I adore dogs and I don't live in the area I claim to. I have three children, one of whom I never mention because she is the spawn of Beelzebub and boils kittens for lunch.
Or not.
It may stop the pastime of spotting the discrepancies between threads though. If almost everything is fantasy and lies, then MN could become an RPG in its next incarnation.

' It takes time a little inclination to trawl through thread via google or even within MN itself, but an instant hit on a like button allows potentially 1000s of new people to see a thread in a second.'

I suppose that was the thinking behind it, yes.

Do we need any more members? This place is bursting at the seams already.

What's RPG, Dusty?

i don't think it's bursting to be honest. it's got a whole lot smaller since twitter.

or maybe just less interesting posters (people who like what i like!)

Why is it bursting at the seams Jane? Who decided that??

you could say the same about Mn 6 years ago - and it's got a hell of a lot bigger since then...

I dunno, it just feels a lot less intimate, a lot wider, than when I joined donkeys years ago.

jmo

but it has grown exponentially. Ask MNHQ.

RPG role playing game.

doesn'tchristmasdrag

yes he might.. if he is still inclined as a single male to read whatever has been linked to on his friend's fb wall about TTC or fashion or feminism.. and if he were interested in those things.. he'll find it anyway

I do not like it. In fact I utterly loath it. I don't understand why it is on. I'm not on fb for a very good reason yet now, even by posting on this thread I end up on fb. Very very unhappy.

Another very strong disliker here,this really changes the ethos of mumsnet for me personally

but it has grown exponentially

good for mnhq.... and good for the women who are now using it and finding it helpful. Mumsnet isn't a private members club..

you have probably been on facebook though bad, and twitter and probably a few more forums on the www

mn is open for all to view

by it's nature it's alot less initimate, you could start your own private forum jane

This is seriously the worst idea ever. Dislike intensely.

this is like watching my nan and all her friends tell me they didn't know people could see them on the interwebs....

probably winterfox - I still hate fb though.

Watching the "Pro Like" people dislike watching my 5 year old ticking all the things she likes in the Argos catalogue.

reposted from the 'not flouncing' thread.

Enter stage right, a mumsnetter.

Mumsnetter, like all of us - has a name just for MN that doesn't identify her at all

Mumsnetter posts a thread.

A few people who don't know her from adam, click 'like' on the thread

The thread shows up as a 'like' on those peoples FB pages.

These few people that clicked 'like' each have 200 friends, so 600 people on FB potentially see that the thread has been 'liked'

595 of them don't give a flying shit and totally ignore it, are not online and don't see it, or have updates from those people hidden so also don't even see it.

5 of them follow the link and read the thread, leaving still with no chuffing idea who the mumsnetter is that posted it.

NO PROBLEM

I don't mind being on fb/twitter occasionally. What i do not want is all my friends status updates showing links to MN as it is likely to highlight the fact i am a fairly prolific MNetter and then people go and 'find' me. Not that i am hugely interesting, but i would rather not give them the nudge.

As a result i have just culled 15 MNetters from my FB to reduce this risk. Not exactly what the powers that be had in mind i'm sure

You misunderstand. I'm not trying to say it shouldn't have grown, or that it shouldn't still grow for that matter.

I'm saying that it is huge, and that perhaps the sort of changes that will encourage another million people to read and join are not strictly necessary.

I'm not so dim as to expect it to remain small for ever. That would be a different stance entirely

One of those 5, however, clicks Like and reposts it to 600 of their closest friends. 472 of whom think it funny and repost it. The OP in question is friends with at least one of those people and clicks the link only to find, to her dismay, that she is being laughed at or has "gone viral".

What's wrong with a "like" button? It makes it easier to do something which was already pretty easy.

It's not as if the site is secret in any way - I know loads about all sorts of random people from reading this site. I might not know who you are and would rather not tbh but I know far too much about you. That sounds a bit stalkerish but it's really not: just unavoidable when people share so much.

but Crisp how will people know that its YOU?

Unfortunately DragOn that is the risk that you take when you post stuff on the internet