GNHQ please make it clear that these forums are public!

Just went onto Twitter - quick glance seems to show that same stories on FB are tweeted there

Thanks Grannyknot that's reassuring

Same for me, charleygirl. Yesterday I shared, for the first time, a little bit about my personal life. Wont be doing that again.

There was one in particular that gave ages of children, health information ( mental health) family relationships etc. I was a bit when I read it on here but kept quiet because I had my knuckles wrapped on another thread for saying the information on that was very identifying and potentially outing. There are several aspects aren't there? Will GN put it on FB, will a trawling journalist find it on FB or on here? What right have we to post identifying information about others? We can be as daft as we want about ourselves ( but it's good to be reminded that we might be being daft in what we are revealing).

I had no idea. I have never used FB in my life and have no intention of doing so. OMG is my reaction.

"Bcc" addresses are not included in email "Reply to all":

"If a recipient uses the “Reply to All” option, the reply will not be sent to those individuals in the BCC: field. Occasionally an email recipient may respond to a message using the “Reply to All” feature. If you have placed a large list of recipients in the TO: or CC: field, all of them will receive the reply."

Good point about the 'bcc' - that's a real issue about email etiquette isn't it? Why would someone use it?

So had a look. It's weird as the comments just seem to be talking to themselves. I didn't recognise any of the threads, but then I don't look at everything by a mile as I don't have time.

Maybe there should be a "members only" forum? Just for more personal stuff..

I think a lot of people don't realise that once you post something on the internet or email it is then public and anyone can quote it. That is why you should be very careful of your Facebook security settings. And never say something you would not want other people to know about.

Just as an extra warning, never do 'reply all' to an email because you cannot see who is 'bcc' . Email is fraught with dangers as you never know if one of the recipients will forward it to all and sundry or if someone's address list is hacked.

Right will have a look.

I made a thread about being incontinent!

I just went onto the GNFB page - there weren't many comments posted. Go onto FB, put Gransnet in search and their page pops up. Under each post, on the right, it says Comment and if you click on that the comments come up if there are any.

How do I look?

Oh how odd so there are parallel discussions? I can't get my head around that

I wonder if random people would go onto Gransnet FB page? But maybe journalists looking for a story might.

whitewave yes people respond.

Apparently lots of Mumsnet threads end up in the Daily Mail and one was discussed on Loose Women this morning - it was one about a poster being disappointed with her £1700 engagement ring

Yes, they are. It happened to me a few months ago with a thread I started, fortunately it was pretty innocuous. I was aware of this, as has been said, although it's a public forum having it on FB is different

Shame really, as folk find consolation from their posts it seems to me and to realise at they are being spread about willy nilly can be disconcerting I think.

I suppose that we must understand
Post on GN post to the world and his wife.

Well, I shall certainly be keeping a bit more quiet here then. I deliberately choose not to use Facebook, and really dont appreciate threads being put there.

... on the Gransnet Facebook page.

Dunno. I just saw the post from the poster who said her thread had ended up on "Fussbook".

So do people post stuff in response to the stuff?

I know the forums are public, but I dont understand how threads appear on Facebook. Are they replicated there by gransnet?