Twitter & FB

Or company WhatsApp Groups!

Oh my! did not imagine that!

I noticed that Kitty, thought it odd that someone would put a GN thread on their works whatsapp group.

I don't understand the whatsapp company group thing.
Could you explain it a bit, please?

MissA Grandad said that he had put parts of a thread on his works whatsapp group so they could see how we treated him!!!

Good job I’ve never put a photo up or identied myself with some of my Brexit posts! I’m in amongst 41,000 people in Urmston. Hiding in plain sight?

Urmstongran you certainly are I didn't even realise it's a place.

<goes off to view Google maps>

MissAdventure, GrannyGravy13, I did not state that it was a "works WhatsApp group." It was a "private friends WhatsApp group which I am not even a member of and therefore would be unable to feed anything into them even using my WhatsApp name

To understand what can be brought about you need to understand how two or more Android phones that operate on Andriod version 8.0 and above can be linked. It can be used with several manufacturers versions of Google Android phones but not all.

The practice is typically engaged for phones used for work so collaboration on documents, picking up texts, emails or even calls to others in a linked group and can be brought about just between a number of phone/group users

That practice is widespread these days, and I never think twice about it, but I can see how the practice could cause concern to those not conversant with such technology, and I apologise if that was the case on this occasion.

However, as stated I am not alone in using the above technology and anyone having a linked phone in a workplace or household could have the same arrangement with colleagues or family. The phones can be unlinked, but like many, I never think to do that, if you have nothing to hide why would you?

Of course, the technology cannot access banking apps etc unless allowed to do so. You also have to be within a limited distance of a linked group phone for the technology to work.

Thank you for explaining, grandad.

“Mansplaining”

Urmstongran, I'm doing the same. It isn't wise to advertise yourself, especially when you are expressing your personal opinions. There are some strange people about!

Grandad

I think you miss the point, possibly on purpose as you are a clever fellow .

It is probably not the technology posters are interested to understand why / how you share our posts /threads with your colleagues so widely as you often state you do .

It is a decisision for you to make but the psychology behind your reason to do so is far more interesting to understand .

However it is usually quite enlightening why you do so by the rhetoric included in your posts at the time you declare how you ' showed ' our thread / posts to colleagues .

grandad I am not totally naive but when I post on here I am "talking" to a particular group of people. I would be very annoyed if what I had said on this forum was, without permission, shared elsewhere.

I don't know if this is relelvant to the discussion, but as a member of Mumsnet I received an email from them yesterday, apologising for a breach of security.
A Mumsnet member had gone onto their private login details and found the private details of another member.
Whether this was by accident or design they don't know but are 'looking into it'.

Yes I got that too..someting about having the same name

In regard to all those that are concerned with the privacy of what they post on this forum, i believe it is an open site that anyone can access.

In that, any person is able to copy a post or series of posts from this forum and paste that into any other open social media site which is a practice which is extremely common these days. In doing the foregoing, no person need have the approval or knowledge of any user of the site from which original information is gathered.

For those that wish to have their posts accessed by only those they are familiar with and trust, then a "closed group" such as that which WhatsApp offer is the only option.

I believe the above is why everyone on this forum has a site name so as no one can know their true identity?

Thanks for the explanations, Grandad, but I still have no idea about the WhatsApp groups thing.

I think the op probably meant that it would be useful if GNHQ could indicate which threads they are sharing to FB & Twitter.

How about it GNHQ?

FarNorth, a WhatsApp group is normally a small to medium number of people that set up a "private chat/information media site within WhatsApp itself.

In the above one member of the group is appointed as administrator and that person invites others into the group or rejects persons who may wish to join but it is felt would not be "an asset" to the group.

As is common these days my family have such a group which is well used on a daily basis, and my wife is member of a group which are all old friends and work colleagues. I am a member of a small group who all worked together for one company some years back.

It is a great way to personaly keep in touch especially with those that you would not normally see on a regular basis.

Forgot to add above "I hope this helps FarNorth.

WhatsApp groups are not just for Android phones, we have a family group with includes iPhones and android. I don't think there is any reason a group can't include anyone it chooses. We make video calls through it to.

Yes Nonnie, WhatsApp groups have no connection whatsoever with linked phones which I posted in regard to earlier in this thread.

Apologies to anyone I may have confused by way of my posts, as I should have emphasised that.

I don't understand why anyone would want to copy and paste some posts on any particular thread to a group of friends or colleagues, more to the point I can't believe the members of that group would be all that interested

I would be very annoyed if what I had said on this forum was, without permission, shared elsewhere.

Everything anyone says on these forums is available for anyone to read. It's a public forum. It's not a private chat among friends. And, if it's the same as mumsnet, you have no control over how your posts are used. Grandad sharing posts on Whatsapp is no different from him him giving out a link to the forum posts he would like to 'share'. I don't see the problem.

I was aware that these posts are open for anyone to read, but I didn't know they could be copied. That means there are no copyright laws..perhaps this is an area which needs tightening up?