Twitter and Facebook links

[JustineMumsnet]

We've added little buttons next to each post which means you can easily post things up on Twitter and Facebook. Please don't feel you have to - we're just making it a bit easier for those who feel the urge.
Best,
MNHQ

(ps have you voted in our final election poll yet If not please please do as we want to close it in the next couple of hours - txs)

Monty - they won't delete your posts, as Lapin said they don't like doing it. I know.

I got found here by a friend without having linked to anything on fb. Don't actually see that individual people would do it that much. Makes more sense for MN Towers to link to interesting or whatever threads but not really just ordinary posters.

If you have a Facebook or a Twitter account, when you click on the appropriate button, it will post what Littlelapin posted into your status box.

If you do not have either of these things I imagine nothing will happen. Or perhaps you will to go the Facebook or Twitter log in page. I do not know as I have both a Facebook and a Twitter. Why don't those of you who are curious click the button and find out? I promise, it won't post anything until you tell it to.

I would like to point out that on Facebook, at least, you can restrict who you are posting your status feed to by creating groups of friends.

I would also like to point out, again, that MN has always been public.

I don't like them either.

we know mn is public. Haven't we already said that.

The USP here is being anonymous.
The USP of FB is communicating with - mostly - RL friends.
I cannot see the two working together, sorry.

I know MN has always been public but this makes me feel more watched and intruded on.

I certainly won't be posting anything about my vagina in the forseeable.

I no like.

I know MNHQ have been linking to threads on Twitter for a while now but the ease of doing it is a bit point and look. It's a bit like being monkeys in a zoo.

The difference is, you post here under an assumed name (unless you are really unimaginative) and while you are aware that the stuff is searchable, googlable, investigatable, nosable-roundable, you have some shield.

The FB link clearly says out loud in RL - LOOK! Look at Mumsnet. I am there. Here is something interesting there. Come on down and stalk me and nose about.

I can see from MNHQ pov it's an excellent marketing tool, and it's how the web works, drawing people in, but those are the drawbacks from a personal pov.

you can click "no thumbnail" and then there will be no Boden advert.

LadyGodawful - well in that case.......don't post any links then you won't be shouting it out to anyone

LadyGodawful
If you never ever post a link to a MN thread, then you will never reveal to anyone that you are a MNetter.

You cannot post accidentally.

If you post on MN then you either hide your identity or don't. I am very easily identifiable so I never post anything that I would not like a friend or relative to read under MmeLindt. I namechange for anything sensitive.

If you feel uncomfortable then just namechange, and post less personal details, no photos on profile etc.

It would be useful if we could each choose to opt out of having our posts Twittered and Facebooked.

Its not the individual posts BeenBeta, its the whole thread.

Threads being linked on to Facebook will result in more site traffic, more awareness of Mumsnet. So more people will come over to have a look. So your so-called anonymity will be compromised in that way - just more people reading and lurking, more chance anything you say might be recognised. I am using the word your here for one because I don't want to sound like the Queen.

Yes - exactly - is why I won't be using it - drawbacks for me, can see MN pov.

I do not like this at all.
Please take it off of sensitive subjects like relationships. People post very personal stuff there to get support and want to remain completely anonymous. I know the replies I will get saying "but it is still anonymous" "but but"... I don't care. It makes me nervous. I won't be posting anything really personal anymore. I might only use mn for postnatal and maybe not even that. Def won't be paying.

Yes, but isn't the whole point of advertising to increase traffic to the site?

It is just a way of increasing new posters (and with them advertisers).

Why should that be seen as a bad thing? It is good for MN if Carrie and Justine make money. They are not 2 bored housewives with a computer and a shed. It is a business and unless it is profitable, it will fold.

Why is this different to MNHQ taking out an ad on FB?

I don't like it at all. I've been lurking on a thread where the OP is in a very vulnerable position, and it seems to me that anyone who links, either intentionally or accidentally (wouldn't be hard) is potentially compromising very sensitive information. I know it's here for all to see anyway, but it's much easier to be anonymous here than it is on FB/twitter. I'll be way more hesitant about posting anything in future if this feature stays.