Facebook integration? Really?

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People here generally want their posts on the board to be shared with the autistic and aspergers community on here, as well as the NTs who join here because they have a friend or loved one on the spectrum. It is a community for a reason, and meant to have a level of safety to disclose. It is something that is needed, for people who need somewhere to post their problems, or people who dont feel comfortable talking about the fact they think they are on the spectrum anywhere else.

Also, you dont have to be on Facebook to have your thread "liked". I choose not to be on Facebook yet someone could like my stuff, putting me on there whether I like it or not, and I would not be able to do anything about it.

If people on WP want to communicate with each other on facebook, they can get each other added as friends and do it through Facebook. Peoples posts on here done in good faith should not be insta-splashed everywhere. It is not right.

I do sort of think WP is a site where it would be bad taste to like threads.

I mean what will people think of WP if someone likes a thread thats full of hate and bigotry? Everyones facebook friends will all see it.

Not that I am against having a like button all together. I don't want to spoon feed people on my fiends list my posts here, not that I care if they see them but still, I don't see the reason to spoon feed them, cant you keep the like button for other aspects of the site, such as your articles on the homepage, and not the forum?

I'm not too concerned about my posts here being "splashed everywhere," but I find that I'm afraid I'll accidentally click the FB like button and my Facebook contacts will see it. I am a very private person and would find this very upsetting indeed. Upsetting enough to go back and delete all of my posts and never post under this name again. Maybe it's neurotic, but I think we all have some neurosis or other around these parts.

I am not at all comfortable having that feature at the end of threads. It's a little too easy to click on by mistake when just scrolling (hey, I've emailed school stuff to clients by mistake because of a trigger happy mouse, it can happen), and especially when clicking to return to forum (far too closely placed). Nor do I like the 6 degrees of separation aspect of Facebook, and I don't like the idea of my words appearing where I did not specifically put them.

I am wondering about the front page articles, though. Maybe that is a more suitable place for the feature?

It's appalling and it could have really serious consequences, including facebook and real life bullying. It only takes a wrong planet identity to be connected (either correctly or incorrectly) with a facebook identity.

There are things posted here which people would never post to facebook, and with good reason. People have trusted this site, and this is a betrayal of their trust.

This is an interesting dilemma, and I think I can see both sides clearly. On the one hand there does seem to be a good reason for linking the WP community to a broader community such as FB, and that is to promote autism awareness, reach a broader audience in an effort to educate/inform, increase connectedness, and overall improve tolerance (I'm reading between the lines here, so alex pleae correct me if I'm wrong). On the other hand people in the WP community have some very valid concerns regarding privacy, vulnerability, and bullying. There may be several ways to compromise so that the broader interests of the community are served resulting in a win-win.

Here are a couple of suggestions: (1) Divide the website into two sections, an open-access section that is linkable to other internet communities like FB and a members-only section that is closed-access, not available to other internet communities, and includes all of the sensitive discussion forums like Haven, Members Only, Adult Issues, etc. (2) Allow members a one-time only chance to change their screen-name. Overall, I advise patience on this, listening to concerns from WP community members, and only moving forward in slow, incremental steps. Best of luck!

I searched Wrong Planet on Facebook and looked at the discussion board. It's wall to wall spam. I know it's the right place because it has Alex's name on it.