to think Gransnet shouldn't put threads on social media sites where they can't remove nasty comments?

Sorry meant Lucy

As you know Lara my user name was shown on the Daily Mail online page

Lucy gransnet while you are there can you explain to me why you have to share these two groups why can you not have a fb group and this group why do you use the same threads for both it seems counter productive to me Can’t the fb gransneters think of anything to talk about can they not choose their own subjects ?

LucyGransnet As far as I can see, those other threads don't address my issue. Please could you confirm that you can -
and do - quickly delete nasty or abusive comments made on Facebook in relation to threads that you are sharing?

Unfortunately because of the risk of something appearing on Facebook or Twitter I think less and less people will be turning to GN for help and advice. I fully understand GN needing to attract more members but don't understand why we can't have a "private" thread accessed by members only which GN guarantee they will not share on Facebook or Twitter. If something is picked up by a newspaper and published then that would not be the fault of GN but I don't think that happens as often as GN posting on social media.

If that's correct, Jane, it is at least some comfort! Does that apply to the comments I am referring to - not those within the thread, but those left on the Facebook page that are about the thread?

GN could remove abusive posts on FB if they wanted to.
If someone comments on something you’ve posted, you get a notification and you can delete the comment if you don’t like it.

I know what you mean, and in fact a quick look at some threads today reveal that a few posters do put an awful lot of info out there about themselves, where they live, medical things and things about all their relatives too! easily identifiable.

I agree with you both, about the personal privacy aspect, but my main concern was that Gransnet is opening people up to a potential torrent of uncontrollable abuse on those other platforms..

Personally, I would be hugely upset to discover that I was receiving insults and abuse elsewhere, as a result of something I had posted on here, even if I knew that I couldn't be identified!

lemongrove is right mamacaz, there has been much debate in here recently about transfer to other sites. It sits uncomfortably with me too but I fear nothing we can do other than be very, very careful what we post.

The thing is MamaCaz that we all know now that the threads on GN end up in many other places.We have to be careful not to put personal things on here which could identify ourselves.