Hi everyone!
I have skim-read this thread and although I really do understand the concerns, I think the whole debate really comes down to one issue - that the Facebook (and Twitter) pages are under the banner of diabetes.co.uk, so have credibility and seem 'official' in some way that sets them apart and yet they are not managed appropriately for that status. Fix that and you will go a long way to fixing the problem.
It is not realistic to expect that posts from this forum will not be quoted and discussed on FB and Twitter diabetes groups. As has been mentioned many times on the thread, there are many many diabetes forums and blogs on the internet that use and quote the content of this forum; it is the biggest diabetes forum on the internet, so it attracts both positive and negative interest. There is one blog in particular that likes to conduct a 'diabetes war' with other blogs and forums - largely, I suspect, to drum up interest in what is otherwise quite a boring subject! It quotes and ridicules forum members all the time - sometimes it's vindictive, sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's just plain stupid, but it has a lot of useful information and some very knowledgeable contributors. I know diabetes is all very interesting to us, but really, very few people are that interested!
You have no control of anything being said about you on the internet; ignore it, laugh at it but don't let it get you down and consume vast amounts of your thoughts and energy.
Smidge
I have skim-read this thread and although I really do understand the concerns, I think the whole debate really comes down to one issue - that the Facebook (and Twitter) pages are under the banner of diabetes.co.uk, so have credibility and seem 'official' in some way that sets them apart and yet they are not managed appropriately for that status. Fix that and you will go a long way to fixing the problem.
It is not realistic to expect that posts from this forum will not be quoted and discussed on FB and Twitter diabetes groups. As has been mentioned many times on the thread, there are many many diabetes forums and blogs on the internet that use and quote the content of this forum; it is the biggest diabetes forum on the internet, so it attracts both positive and negative interest. There is one blog in particular that likes to conduct a 'diabetes war' with other blogs and forums - largely, I suspect, to drum up interest in what is otherwise quite a boring subject! It quotes and ridicules forum members all the time - sometimes it's vindictive, sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's just plain stupid, but it has a lot of useful information and some very knowledgeable contributors. I know diabetes is all very interesting to us, but really, very few people are that interested!
You have no control of anything being said about you on the internet; ignore it, laugh at it but don't let it get you down and consume vast amounts of your thoughts and energy.
Smidge