I can't remember when I joined if I was asked how I came to find the forum. Might be useful to the management if that question was asked.
Also, I don't think members who leave are ever removed from the list.
*sings* You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
Unless they have left on a jet plane ....that's a song !!!!
Yep I like that one too!Unless they have left on a jet plane ....that's a song !!!!
One of the other things I note is that people describe the forum as a "support forum". I was under the impression that it was a community of people who had varying interests in diabetes, some for whom it was a way of sharing information, others for whom it is a way of getting in touch with other diabetics. When I first came across it I didn't consider it a support forum, although I can see that many consider it that way. As an information sharing/community of common interest I can understand why sharing links to topics on Facebook wouldn't be considered an issue.
I guess it depends massively on how you view a forum such as this!
This is what I saw on FB today View attachment 11122
But maybe I can read it as a member but others can't?
Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
None of my family are on this forum, and whilst it is public, I trust them not to go looking and digging online to find out what's happening with me. But they are on facebook, and as I am diabetic they "like" the diabetes.co.uk page on there.
There are things I have sounded out and discussed on here personal to me, such as newly diagnosed kidney issues, which I haven't as yet had a chance to sit down and tell my family about. It would be horrible for them to see a post on facebook linking to a thread on here with me discussing those issues. No way for a family to find out.
I feel it's wrong to link on facebook to personal threads people have put up on here. Well and grand posting a general link to the over all forum; but not to individual threads.
Makes me feel a lot more cautious about discussing anything on here. And this was one place I felt I could freely discuss my diabetes, how I was getting on with it and issues I was having with it. I feel now that I have lost that, for fear of someone close to me reading it on facebook.
You've hit the nail on the head Hooked for me.
But we all have so many more facebook friends now ...You've hit the nail on the head Hooked for me.
@Avocado Sevenfold, that's a perfectly fair statement. It wasn't the reason I arrived here, so as you say, my expectations differ significantly from yours!
One question that constantly comes to mind is that of why this one seems to have a much larger population than many other diabetic forums, and whether this topic is in someway linked to that.
I was just reading another thread which asked for prayers and support for a family crisis and the member was giving an update on that situation. She was going to post a picture of the person involved so that we could see the improvement, but since this FB issue has started feels that she is unable to do that and is wary of posting certain details. How sad. We have become our own censors and no longer feel we can share certain things in case they get spread where we don't want them.
Which means that persons trust support and a life line for some has gone .......I was just reading another thread which asked for prayers and support for a family crisis and the member was giving an update on that situation. She was going to post a picture of the person involved so that we could see the improvement, but since this FB issue has started feels that she is unable to do that and is wary of posting certain details. How sad. We have become our own censors and no longer feel we can share certain things in case they get spread where we don't want them.
Perhaps if you thought ( yes, wrongly I know ) that this was a members only support forum that would not provide links to FB you may have done ? Obviously she did. Shame.It's interesting though. I wouldn't consider posting something that personal on what is a public site. I've always been careful linking to you tube videos including me on other forums. Maybe that's just me.