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bez, I don't understand what you mean when you say that a whole thread shows on FB. When I click on a thread link on FB, which is all that shows on my FB page, the "whole thread" as you call it is opened in another browser window on The Gransnet site, not on Facebook. It is via Facebook, certainly, but not on your Facebook for all your FB friends to see.

Does it work differently on your Facebook page?

I've just clicked on the Gransnet Facebook link to the bull running thread. The thread opened on this same Gransnet site that I'm writing this post on right now, not on Facebook. This is how links usually work between sites.

Not sure if it is worth me writing this. And assuming I have got it right.

I think the issue is that people know that gransnet is an open forum but are also aware that the site does not have that big a readership.

But once threads from here appear on Facebook, it opens the threads up to a wider readership than before.

x post, and now thatbags has written her posts, mine may be totally wrong and irrelvant.
Goodnight!

You can't get more public than a public forum. Gransnet is perfectly up front about being a public forum. This means anyone can look at what's posted on it whether or not they are gransnetters themselves. The same applies to Gransnet's Facebook page. You don,t have to have a Facebook account to look at public Facebook pages.

I quite agree that they are very upfront.

I also agree that it is very public and am always mindful, every single time I post.

But there is still public, as in 200,000 reading it. And public as in 5 million reading something. [figures very rough obviously].

I very much doubt that 5 million people would look up Gransnet on Facebook.
I doubt that 200,000 would.
The impression I get is that there are probably about 100 fairly regular posters on GN, maybe 300 if you count the people who come on just to enter the competitions.
I think GN would like us to believe there are maybe 10 - 15000 who are registered but never post.
Only some of those will have 'liked' GNs Facebook page - and they are the only people who will see GN's postings in FB, except that if a gransnetter comments on something GN have posted, then their FB friends will see it too.
So to ensure that your FB friends don't guess who you are on GN, the remedy is simple - just don't comment on GN's FB page.
I don't understand the panic here.

I think Gransnet has a huge readership. Absolutely millions of people around the world lap up every little thing I say.

Of course they do! And even more can't get enough of our political threads...

Oh yeah. That's for sure.

Gransnet is not in control of what anyone has one their Facebook page, the page owner is. So if you don't want Gransnet links on your Facebook page, don't have them on your Facebook page. It really is that simple.

You can still look at Gransnet's Facebook page whenever you like and you can still comment on the forums whenever you like.

In short, there is no problem.

I'm not in a state of panic about it. I think that GN forum "proper", with it's sense of community, tricks me into thinking I'm chatting to a select group, and that if Joe or Joan Public bothered to read it, they'd be of a similar mindset. Whereas Facebook feels like the world and his wife could be on there. I didn't understand how it worked. Now I do. I'm still not happy at the thought but I'm not cross any more.

ana there's a thought, why do HQ not post one of the political threads on Facebook

bags my Facebook security settings are very robust. I've never seen anything about Gransnet on my Facebook page. I don't go near a GN competition if entry is on Facebook. I choose to keep the two activities separate. So I was surprised to find out that a thread that I started on the GN public forums, ended up on Facebook. And that made me feel uncomfortable. But as I said, I get it now that both are equally public. Now when I start a thread, I will think "this might end up on Facebook".