To think that GN should not share threads with Twitter & Facebook

It annoys me so much that I shall deregister from GN if they carry on doing it and then you can all look on Twitter for my comments to your threads!!
They set a poll on 2nd Nov about name changing and since then there has been silence! What are they doing about the fact people wanted name changes?

Another gransnetter has to leave
Read that thread and also gransnet thread appears in Daily Mail online
Check the Forums heading and the paragraph starting 'Welcome to Gransnet'
There was quite a stramash just a few weeks ago about threads appearing elsewhere and posters being unaware of just how public GN is.

I am not sure that they can stop journalists reading and using but they can certainly stop spreading it themselves.

I was fully aware of how public GN is. I wasn't aware that every single thread that interested me is duplicated on other social media sites.

Completely irrelevant but I do love the word "stramash"! Beautifully descriptive word. Thanks mcem, I might borrow that one.

Feel free Chewbacca !
I've always thought it was common only in Scotland but it was used by a very formal political commentator during a bulletin today.
That's probably why it was in my mind.

I caused a stramash** about this same subject back in August:

www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/1239569-GNHQ-please-make-it-clear-that-these-forums-are-public

**I also love that word, is it pronounced as in "ash" or "mush"? I love rolling an "r".

I know Grannyknot - I am fairly sure I was on that thread. It has rumbled on since then and I thought we were getting somewhere with the name change poll but almost a fortnight and not even a comment from GNHQ, never mind a decision.
I started this because I have got to the point where I shall leave GN if they continue doing it.
There are lots of accounts they can follow on Twitter that are age relevant. I find it odd that they never picked up on #nomorewrinklyhands and the stereotyping of the elderly. The campaign is against the lazy picture they put on the Grandma dying thread.

There are two different things here- people need to be aware that this site is public- anyone at all can read it without even logging in. Journalists will read it and I don't think they can be stopped.- once you have put it on it is in the public domain.
The part that I object to is GN actually putting threads elsewhere so that thousands more see them and can comment without it being of the slightest use to the OP who doesn't see them. On FB and Twitter I have my name and photo therefore I am careful what I post. I have neither on GN and so can give personal information. If I wished to put it on other sites I would do so in the first place.

This is just horrible. So, if I don't 'do' FB and/or Twitter, my words can be cast around for all to read, and I would be none the wiser?

Gransnet put links to these threads on Facebook etc. They simply lead you to these forums. It's just the equivalent of putting up an advertising poster and is to get new members and advertisers interested.

Pittcity I was just about to say that. Those of you who think GN should delete the usernames if they're putting whole threads on FB or Twitter are not fully understanding what is being done. They are not "putting threads elsewhere", they are putting links to threads elsewhere. Which amounts to the same thing, of course, but it's not just a simple matter of 'doctoring' the thread before it's published elsewhere.
I remember the brouhaha back in August when Grannyknot started that thread, and frankly I'm amazed that there are still people popping up here that were unaware this was happening. It was GK's thread that prompted me to leave GN in August. I returned recently but am much more careful how I post - and I was much more careful with my choice of username! Absolutely nothing about it that could be identified with me!

Lara As I have asked before would it not be possible to have a section which can only be accessed by members and which will be guaranteed not to be shared by GNHQ. People would then feel comfortable in posting asking for help with specific matters

I am extremely disappointed to learn that a very personal account of how we helped my grandchildren cope with my mums (fairly recent) death is now on FB (I am not a member) for the world to see. Anyone who knows me will recognize my very personal account and I am very upset about it. I would like it removed but realise that it's probably too late for that now.

gillybob perhaps you could go to the thread in question and report your post, asking for GNHQ to delete it as it contains personal and identifiable information. At least then it won't continue to be seen by people visiting the link via FB. And remember, the only people on FB who would see the link are people who have joined the GN page on FB, so that may narrow it down a little - not quite the whole world seeing it.
So sorry this has happened - I really do think it's thoughtless - almost cruel - of GN to link to some of these very personal and sensitive threads.

Actually if someone makes a comment on the FB link, that comment is then open for anyone who is linked to their page, which in turn is open to anyone linked to those pages and so on. I fully understand GNHQ is a business but don't understand why we cannot have a section open only to members and guaranteed not to be shared on FB, Twitter etc.

the only people on FB who would see the link are people who have joined the GN page on FB,

That's not correct.
I have not 'liked' or 'followed' GN on facebook but I can see all the posts if I look at it.
Anyone who does a facebook search for a subject like 'grandparents' or 'retirement' might find GN as one of the results of that search.
GN might also be suggested, by facebook, to people who have already looked at other pages on similar subjects.

So every time we might share personal information it could be transmitted on to Twitter and Facebook and all GN suggests is changing names. This leaves a very sour taste.

As others have said, we've all been alerted to this for some time. Probably everything posted on the internet at once becomes potential public property. ie can be reposted elsewhere.
That's why I changed my user name not long ago.
It's not GNHQ's fault.

But anybody can read a thread on here too, whether a member or not.

I wish you were right Bathsheba ..... but FarNorth is spot on. I am not on FB (never have been, never will be) and yet I have successfully opened the link and there it is for all to see. and

Are we assuming that GNHQ puts these threads on twitter and fb? Presumably anyone could do it. I am not on either, so have not seen them - are they put there in the name of Gransnet?

If you search for GN on FB it comes up. I am not on FB so its there for anyone to read whether or not they are on GN or FB.

I assume HQ must've put the link there Lucky.

So Largransnet you are basically telling us to stop supporting sharing and caring for each other Yes we can talk about comfy shoes or jam making Would that be better for your sharing threads ??? I m afraid this is not being taken seriously by GN and it needs to be I personally don’t want to keep changing my name this is what I want .....either
A) a private page that doesn’t get shared
B) permission of the thread owner for it to be shared
or C) a separate FB / Twitter group that DOES NOT lift our threads but start their own
Lastly I am most annoyed that our words are given/ sold to the Daily Mail that is very wrong and of course it’s GNHQ s fault who else’s is it Of course anyone in the public can read our words but you do not expect them to be lifted completely to other media