Does it put you off posting aything

Kryptonite

Really! ?

No!
Everyone knows that Ermintrude is a cow ?

I bet that GNet threads from News & Politics would never make the Daily Mail.

Though it would be nice if more people knew that 'old' people aren't all tory voting Brexit supporters

But I do feel safe confining myself to a forum that's never going to go nationwide (or beyond)...

They don't usually put in the headline that the info has been lifted from GN or MN, but there'll be a little mention in the article.
You could easily miss it if you're concentrating on the story.

GN facebook seems to have stopped sharing GNers' threads and hasn't posted any of their own since September 2021, except one in March this year about a competition.

m.facebook.com/gransnet/?tsid=0.413609656352518&source=result

Doesn’t bother me at all. I believe you’ve have to be contacted by the media initially and I wouldn’t speak to nor read the DM if my life depended on it ! Lol !

Oh I have certainly seen. Multiple times.

I am always amazed at people posting pictures - particularly of grandchildren knowing this forum is open to anyone.

I don't think you'd be contacted Cossy.

Posting on a forum, under a pseudonym, is just like sticking up a poster in the town centre.
Anyone can see it and can do what they like with the information.

I was startled to find a post I had made picked up by my husband on his Google feed! I had thought I was posting in a secure environment, membership only etc. I hadn’t posted anything to worry about other than I had mentioned a dispute with a neighbour, so I asked admin to remove my post. Now I do think twice before posting.

I read posts on both but I don’t bother posting on anything now

dragonfly46

I am always amazed at people posting pictures - particularly of grandchildren knowing this forum is open to anyone.

Yes and give such details that it’s easy to know where they live and their daily comings and goings.

I never read newspapers. Prefer to get news from trusted sources....

That’s how it is these days, Theoddbird. Sadly. We just get the weekend papers for the crosswords and travel lift outs these days. Don’t want to read the trash they print about celebs etc.

I had to look up Helen Skelton. I remember her vaguely from Countryfile. I know they want to be known publicly but it must be awful when you are publicly humiliated.

Gransnet started out as a very friendly and welcoming place but now your face, and politics, have to fit. I used to rise above it all but since being so unwell I find it better to keep a safe distance from the bigotry of the tea time Trotskys.

I've seen this happening lately. Recently on MN there was a story about a neighbour objecting to teenagers enjoying their own garden. I saw it again as a newspaper article.

yes quite.If i wanted to be quoted on an online news sewer id write them, not us load of old gals on here!

Sussexborn
“Teatime Trostkys”. Brilliant??

hollysteers

Sussexborn
“Teatime Trostkys”. Brilliant??

Poor Sussexborn thought she'd joined an echo chamber...

LovelyCuppa

I think it’s a good reminder that once you post something on the internet you have absolutely no control over what happens to it next.

So right. I had a friend telling me she had read on Gransnet about a nectar fraud just like mine… H.mm, I thought, I must be careful what I’m bellyaching about if I want to enjoy the anonymity of Gransnet.

The shame! Trotsky, not Trostky…

Since i don't read newspapers I don't see anything that's been posted on GN. It doesn't stop me commenting.

I’d never post something that could identify me. Pity as there is plenty of wisdom here.
Couldn’t, would take the risk.

The journalists must be a poor lot for resourcing information and news if they have to resort to reading Mum and Gransnet to get their scoops. For all they know, we might be men incognito.

I was thinking the same thing Yammy. Who'd of thought that anything seen here or on mumsnet would be considered news worthy!!!

Nah! Most of us use pseudonyms, and I doubt we're at risk of any of our posts/comments being so outrageous that being posted in media would harm anyone!

LovelyLady

I’d never post something that could identify me. Pity as there is plenty of wisdom here.
Couldn’t, would take the risk.

It would be really easy to work out who I am.
In fact lots of people already do.

But I don’t understand why anyone would want to?!
Or what they would gain from it?

I’ve got absolutely nothing to hide.
I would never post anything unfavourable or personal about my wider family.

I like being open about things, and it helps me to conduct myself as I hope I would irl.

I do discuss DH (especially his health issues), but it doesn’t bother him one bit.

I did once post something about a young man that I taught, and a kind poster (*Sago*) suggested that I delete it, as it was easy to find his details etc online.