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JustineMumsnet · 30/04/2010 10:16

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)

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MerlinsBeard · 30/04/2010 17:52

well MN don't pay me to advertise. I wasn't asked to advertise on behalf of MN.

BeenBeta · 30/04/2010 17:58

TBH, I would quite like all threads deleted after 1 year. Keeping them longer than that is a really marginal benefit to anyone including the owners of MN.

I have just Googled my old MN Nickname and found 4 threads. I hope with a small name change they will eventually disappear once people stop searching and referencing those old posts.

However, I also just Googled my new Nickname to find virtually every single thead I have posted on in the last few weeks since I adopted it. I suspect this has happened entirely because of this new innovation.

I dont like it.

AmeliaCordelia · 30/04/2010 17:58

I realise Moldies are there.
I realise that there are FB threads to which i am not privvy talking abut threads on here.

However, i am not happy that general threads are more accessible to FB and Twitter and that there are going to be some private groups set up on here.

Surely the whole TDWP debarcle of the last few days illustrates how it will become one rule for a few and one rule for others.

It doesn't sit well with me.

MerlinsBeard · 30/04/2010 18:02

I don't know what happened with TDWP.....?

BeenBeta · 30/04/2010 18:02

midnightexpress - "I'll be way more hesitant about posting anything in future if this feature stays."

I feel the same. The only way round it is constant random name changing and I really don't want to do that.

WhenwillIfeelnormal · 30/04/2010 18:04

Posters in defence of this seem to be saying a) It's a commercial decision b) it is to make posting links easier and c) No-one ever posts links to the more sensitive threads anyway.

If all of that is true, presumably no-one would object to the suggestion that MNHQ restrict these links to Chat and AIBU, or wherever people tend not to reveal the personal details necessary in order to get support from others, such as Relationships or Bereavement (there may well be others).

I don't do FB or Twitter and this is my choice. I wouldn't have posted on Mumsnet at all if I thought that one day, my posts would have been available to see on these sites, should someone decide to link a thread to which I have contributed.

However, this is particularly pernicious to people who currently have live and active threads (started before this "enhancement") and their safety is being compromised right now by an abusive partner. It is particularly odious to see the FB and Twitter buttons against all of this poor women's heartrending posts.

QuintessentialShadow · 30/04/2010 18:07

" It is particularly odious to see the FB and Twitter buttons against all of this poor women's heartrending posts."

Couldnt agree more.

Fine, increase revenue, but not at all costs?

It is tasteless to twitter about somebodys real life crisis.

It is tasteless to include an option to DO so.

Having these buttons is not just making it "easier to those who feals the urge", it is encouraging it. For revenue. It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

BeenBeta · 30/04/2010 18:08

Amelia - I also sense that private conversations on Facebook are going on alongside MN threads sometimes.

Sorry, I know MN is public and anyone can read what I read/write but dont see why it has to be presented in such a way. I am sure journalist will just be trawling the Facebook and twitter feeds and had some old posts deleted recently because I was worried they might make it into a newspaper.

BeenBeta · 30/04/2010 18:11

WhenwillI - agree with you as well.

The 'enhancement' seems to be dramatically enhancing the ability of Google to cache and catalogue threads as well.

toccatanfudge · 30/04/2010 18:13

I don't have any journalists on my FB.......I'm not that well connected.....

MmeLindt · 30/04/2010 18:13

I can understand the reluctance to have the buttons on certain threads, bereavement, miscarriage, relationships. They are ones that are not likely to be linked to FB anyway, so perhaps MN can take the links off of those topics. Not at all technical minded so no idea if this is possible.

I do understand the consternation, and I find it sad that people are deregging because of this but I really do not see that it is any different to how MN was yesterday.

It has always been possible to link to threads, whether by email, twitter or facebook.

toccatanfudge · 30/04/2010 18:21

and FWIW just last week MNHQ removed a link (to a thread in Chat) from their FB page (and I presume twitter as well?) as some people felt the risks of it being picked up by a journalists were to high.

People don't just link indiscriminately - we're not stupid (well most of my MN/FB friends aren't stupid.........can't talk for myself there though)

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Molesworth · 30/04/2010 18:27

Agree with MmeLindt - I still think the links on every post is overkill, but their presence hasn't suddenly made MN less private than it was yesterday: it has never been private. It worries me that people are deregistering over this: is that not an overreaction, or am I missing some important point in all this?

Fliight · 30/04/2010 18:27

well the fact Lapin doesn't like it is really bad. she is good at this kind of stuff and knows what she is talking about.

I'm not posting any more, not under this name anyway.

RunawayWife · 30/04/2010 18:28

Ekk new and scary stuff....I was only gone 4 hours

Molesworth · 30/04/2010 18:29

Well, they can do that anyway, but you do have a point that the links could incite them to do it when perhaps they wouldn't have thought to do so otherwise.

MmeLindt · 30/04/2010 18:30

LL
If there is an abusive ex (for example) and he discovers the posts and recognises his ex, do you think that the lack of a link button will stop him posting a link on FB?

I do think it is an overreaction to dereg over this. Especially as we have had no response from MNHQ since this afternoon.

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bibbitybobbityhat · 30/04/2010 18:34

Fliight - will you tip me the wink if you namechange? I am vair fond of you you know.
Fond in the Mumsnet sense.

Coffeeandchocolate · 30/04/2010 18:35

Completely agree with WhenwillI. This whole thing makes me feel very uneasy about posting on MN in the future. And please remove the links from the sensitive threads, it is so inappropriate indeed to see them next to vulnerable posts. People don't post in here only to have a chat, some are at their rawest and seeing these links next to their words is definitely not helping.

Beetroot · 30/04/2010 18:35

But why?