Okay, take a look at this link.
https://www.facebook.com/mamapedia?fref=ts
Scroll down to October 6th. Remember that poor woman who is scared of every disease on earth? She had an app on her phone that told her what was going around her town and the towns around her? Well that is what Doug and Jake mean by posting anonymous questions. I don't remember her name and there is nothing there that shows who it was.
I remember the awful management the old owners had. That horrid chick that was more upset that I said I didn't trust her than what she had done to Cat. It was almost creepy how self centered her responses were. I kept trying to explain why it was what she did was seen as wrong and uncaring and she kept responding stop saying I don't care!! Um, you won't take responsibility for your actions, you won't acknowledge they were wrong, all you care about is yourself, how on earth could I see that as uncaring.
So does anyone think that chick removed any of the links before that happened? Do you think she went and thought apparently these people care about their privacy, maybe I should remove all the links to their questions with my stupid soundbite? So sure those links are still there but they can only link between this site and their FB page. They cannot link to your FB profile, they just don't have access to that unless you post on the blogs.
If you do post to the blogs make sure the box isn't checked that posts it to your timeline. I don't know if FB fixed this but a year ago if you posted on any FB powered discussion page and didn't uncheck that box it posted to your feed, that you commented on that article, but it didn't show up on your wall. So you could click on your profile and not see the articles but all your friends were seeing it on your feed! I wouldn't have even known if one of my comments hadn't upset my daughter and she texted me what the hell mom!! I had to go into the view activity log on my profile, dig out those articles and block them from my feed.
Margie, yeah, I was shocked going down that log to see how much "I" post to my FB feed. I don't know if you have ever seen a friend recommending say, WalMart? That is the same thing, you look at their site, click on an item and suddenly you are telling the world how much you love their products. Probably a good idea for everyone to take an occasional look at that log.
Nervy! you know damn well Al Gore invented the internet. None of this acting like your friends had anything to do with it! :p
Cheryl, no. They can't stop people from posting the URL in an email, in any other site, whatever but that is a risk anywhere you post. Still that URL contains nothing that could lead someone to you. Like right now the URL is the site/questions/ the database locator number for this question/edit because I am editing it. That locator number can only find this question, not you.
yo ho! well, i'm glad you keep trying, J., because THIS was exactly what i needed.
khairete
S.
I remember that one. Here it is:
http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/3009736967144669185
The Mamapedia post from Sep 24 has 32 responses (so far) while the Facebook version of it has 24 (so far).
I responded on Mamapedia and my response is not found under Facebook - I think mostly because I have separate email addresses I use for each account, I never use Facebook to sign on to anything and I don't do anything on Facebook but lurk (I have all permissions turned off) and I very rarely private message a friend.
Facebook has it's uses - but it's tentacles are into everything these days.
If you WANT a lot of cross connections - that's all fine and dandy - but if you want to keep things separate - you have to get a good grip on how the permissions work and how to prevent cross contamination.
(Has anyone developed a Facebook condom? It's really almost like an STD.)
Employers are ALL OVER FACEBOOK.
I don't think my responses as a parent are any business of anyone I work for - and therefor I will never want what I say on Mamapedia to be displayed on Facebook and be identified with my professional life - and as I have things currently set up - it's working precisely as I want it to work.
If that changes then something will have to go - although I'm more likely to have my Facebook account deleted than anything else.
Thanks J. and B.
That makes sense to me.
I have seen that before on other sites - this cross connections thing you mention. I have been wary of it before, and wondered that J. - where does that show up. No doubt somewhere I have probably commented on a site and it's shown up in my feed. Ugh. I try not to but good to know how to stop it.
Thanks for all the info.
The old owners/moderators were very strange. Whenever you contacted them, you got this odd, robot-like response. I thought maybe the customer service was outsourced to a third-world country or something.
Margie, your pic showing up on the MP blog comments is an FB feature. As long as you don't comment, your pic won't show up. Looking at the people who've commented on the FB MP site - it looks like a different group of people from the regulars here, as far as I can tell.
When I look on the MP Facebook page, I see the questions, and likely they are answered by an entirely different set of users. I didn't see any responses which looked familiar. I wish people would take the time to think critically about this.
Here's the thing that I really wish people would remember-- the internet has not, nor has it ever been, completely anonymous. Identification is intrinsic to its purpose. Privacy is nice facade. Remember that the internet was developed not for commerce or entertainment uses, but was funded by the Department of Defense for the armed forces security and intelligence services. My girlfriend's dad worked on the technology which helped to develop the internet, so we have to keep that in mind-- the technology was invented to keep the government and defense department's secrets, not ours.
I'm old and not tech savvy and not understanding any of this. I don't do Facebook and want nothing to do with it. If I respond to posts here, do my responses go anywhere on Facebook? Please just a simple "yes" or "no" answer. If yes, this will be the last time I respond to anything on this site. I DO guard my privacy.
