Removal of FB/Twitter Links on sensitive threads

[WhenwillIfeelnormal]

Are you intending to remove these links please from Relationships, Bereavement and Miscarriage? Many of us expressed disquiet recently that seeing these links next to posts with sensitive information felt incongruous and offensive. You said then that you could see our point and that you would consider their removal.

I also assume you don't want to encourage Mumsnetters to share those threads with a wider audience, when it must be implicit that the posters would prefer that their words were not linked to these other sites. I entirely accept that people can cut and paste if they so wish, but I hope you will actively discourage such actions on those boards. Removal of these buttons and a message from you to exercise some caution with threads of this nature will, I think, go some way to resolving the concerns many of us have.

Thank you.

Do you want to cross-post this on the other Twitter/Facebook thread?

I stopped myself doing it because it rather goes against the sort of discussion we were having on that thread! Up to you if you want to.

And, btw, I thought the sections you mentioned (bereavement, etc.) were not twitterable!

I don't go on to Bereavement, so wouldn't have noticed. The board I most post on is Relationships. That board relies on posters sharing their own experiences in order to help an OP, most of the information shared is sensitive and not the sort of information the users want linked on on a social networking site.

Don't mind you updating the other thread you mentioned WV, but will keep this here for now until we get a response from MNHQ.

No problem; I just thought that would would help "bump" it up MNHQ's list. I won't touch the other thread with this, then. Your comment - your copyright!

Hello
Um, the truth is I don't know about this but I will find someone who does.
(Just wanted you to know that someone from MNHQ had seen this anyway)

Thanks Olivia. I really feel strongly about the Relationships board, as every day people post sensitive and often heart-rending information that really isn't suitable for light-hearted sites like FB and Twitter.

LunaticFringe, there's another big thread on this which you may find useful.

We on the Tamoxifen thread in General Health would like them removed if possible as we feel that what we say on this thread is sensitive and private (as private as an online forum can be,of course) We want people to join in but really don't want everything flaunted on facebook.

IMO it would also be good to remove SN form it.
because of the nature of sn it does mean we have to give a lot of information that people might not want on fb or twitter.

I also would ask for removal of them on SN threads; Sn, like bereavement and Relationships is a safe area for whn people crash, and whilst I generally trust teh core SN crowd anyone could be browsing and recognise someone. Definitely a crisis / emotional parallel between those areas I think.

I am not liking it on Mental Health either tbh.

ONly for the 'light hearted' ones imo

eg chat/other subjects/AIBU/products/ebay ...

agree also about mental health - I've said rather more than I'd like facebook to know on those threads

Hi all - yes we are removing the links from
bereavement, miscarrage, mental health, relationships and special needs. Should be done in the next day or two.

Thanks so much for your input.

Thank you Justine. It would be great if when you published this to the site, you included some form of discouragement from linking sensitive threads in the areas that still have these links (am thinking of CHAT and AIBU, where posters sometimes reveal pretty sensitive info.)

Thanks for listening to the weight of opinion against this. I still feel uncomfortable that this site is linked at all with one that is so unethical about its users' privacy (Facebook) but it is a start....

thanks

Thanks mnhq.

I think the voice of reason has been heard (or some such cliche)

I know Justine originally thought it would be nice to "easily link" mn with FB..but the thing is...

if we wanted to have these convo's in public...we'd be having them on FB rather than MN wouldn't we?