It is not about sharing confidential information, or at least it isn't for me, but some threads about difficult family matters, even if the OP and her/his circumstances are unidentifiable are made for a small forum where many of the responders know each other and are online friends and write in an intimate and friendly way. Albeit the forum and its posts are open to other people who
choose to visit it.
Seeing these threads on twitter and Facebook has an uncomfortable air of voyeurism about it and diminishes both the distress of the OP and the comfort offered by GN members.
Bluebelle The Daily Mail can dip into our forum whether GN give consent or not. All it needs to do is dip into this open forum. I suspect that they have a staff member who does just that and is probably signed up so that they can sometimes start topics to get our responses, hoping for what they would consider 'traditional conservative(small c) reactionary responses'. Although they may have given that up as that is not what they got.
Another welcoming into Soop's kitchen for those who care to share...