August 2018 Moms

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Re: Facebook Group

  • I can only echo what is being said above about 'fake' FB profiles for the sake of joining the group. Yes, there are catfish 'tests', but I am not on board with any of it. I have seen too many instances of things happening such as the fake donations, nasty PM's and much more. My last name is not super common and I'm almost positive I am maybe 1 in 10 in the country with my first and last name combo, possibly even less than that. Even though my FB is locked down, you google my full name and you will find my workplace in an instant. Too many red flags on that one.
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    DS: 5.28.15
    DS#2: EDD 8.31.18

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  • I don’t understand why this has to be a big argument, especially when a lot of you already chose to make a Facebook group prior to this. How well do you ever know anyone on the Internet? You can take precautions, as we will, but nothing is ever guaranteed. If you don’t want to join one, don’t. No one is begging you to. It’s only for whoever wants to. 

    Obviously more people want to be in a Facebook group than were invited to the more exclusive one. This was inevitable. BMBs pretty much always move to Facebook.
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  • @calimom2524 enough of us have BTDT, so I think we’ll manage. This has been discussed every time a Facebook group has been brought up. It’s been
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  • If anyone sent you PM's saying "nasty" stuff, I'd be sharing their name so other people know.  
  • Sounds suspect.  
  • In the land of QFP I figured you would.
  • I kinda don’t get how FB is easier to use.  

    When I log into TB, it gives me yellow notifications on the threads I read, letting me know there are more replies.  And when I click on it, it takes me right back to where I left off.  Not to mention I can see the threads with ease.  You can’t do that with FB.  I have to scroll through all the comments until I get to where I left off.  

    ::shrug:: 

    And I agree with the fake profiles.  If you aren’t comfortable yet with people knowing who you are, don’t join.  More people seem to be uncomfortable with regulars joining under a false profile.  


  • neeraja_k said:
    you can always go through your privacy settings and set it to "Friends Only", something I always recommend folks do regardless. 
     this right here. My facebook is locked down.. so yes you can see my name and profile picture... but that's it
    Me: 36 years old   DH: 42 years old
    Married: 05.2012  
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    September 2017 HSG #2 & Gonal-F/Femara/Ovidrel/IUI #1 = ep (Salpingectomy of left fallopian tube)
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  • It isn’t so much about my FB profile needing to be locked down. It’s about getting closer with ladies and letting them know more about me. Giving them more details about my life. 

    Thats why I would be hesitate. I want to be more open and share. But not with just anyone.  
  • So sometimes for my job I have so some FB investigations. If i know you name I can find out more than you think. Just because your profile is "locked" doesn't mean your friends and family members pages are. They could tag you and post stuff about you. Just putting that out there. Be careful. 

  • If your settings are strict you can't see my friends.  Yeah, if you know my name you could sleuth and deduce who my family is.  If the have the same name.  But you can do that with anyone's names and vital statistics.  It's pretty hard to stay completely anonymous in the world.
  • I mean, in theory my mailman knows more about me than all of you :smiley:
  • edited April 2018
    So sometimes for my job I have so some FB investigations. If i know you name I can find out more than you think. Just because your profile is "locked" doesn't mean your friends and family members pages are. They could tag you and post stuff about you. Just putting that out there. Be careful. 

    This.

    If you put someone’s name in the search, you can opt to search for them by photo.  Which means any photos you are tagged in by someone else that aren’t private show up.  

    It isn’t hard to put pieces together and find out what you want to find out about someone.

    ETA if you’ve talked badly about friends/family here, someone who is cat fishing or just end up being crazy can send them screenshots of your Bump posts.  That’s too close for comfort


  • I haven't been around much lately (long story short one of the girls on my team at work left and so I get to do both my job and hers until we hire someone else, yay), but as much as I like you guys I'm also not ready to jump over to a super open group yet.  My previous BMB also had a reasonable "regular posters only" structure, but we didn't start it until about a month before we were due so by then we had weeded a lot of people out and were able to be more selective...and even so there has been some drama over there.  Including a donations scam.

    My profile is locked down, and attached to a secondary email address for added security, but you'd still see my name and pictures of me and my family on there.  I'm not really ready yet personally, but i hope that those of you who have made the switch will still hop on here from time to time.

    Also I agree that FB is WAY more annoying to get through thread comments on than TB is.  But it is generally an easier mobile platform so it kind of evens out.  I'm in two previous bump related groups (my last BMB and some ladies I made friends with in TTGP) and it's hard to keep up with just those two, so before I jump into another one I want to make sure it's with people I really want to take the time to know better.
  • I must be the odd man out here. I haven’t had FB in over 5 years. (Insert shocked face emoji here). I hope you all still come here to keep us updated. 
  • I'm really torn.  I like the support I've found here, especially with those who are also high risk.  And the normalization of hearing how things are going for others helps ease my neurotic anxiety about the pregnancy.  But I'm not sure I really feel ready to give such personal access to my life as Facebook might provide.  I might have to think about it for a few days and see how dead it gets in here. 
    Me: 39  DH: 30
    Married 1/28/17
    TW:
    BFP #1 2/26/17, MMC 5/2/17
    BFP #2 10/10/17, MC 11/4/17
    BFP #3 12/17/17 Birth 8/13/18
    BFP #4 4/21/19 Birth 12/5/2019


  • This isn’t a now or never thing as far as I’m concerned. The idea is not to abandon the board, especially now that the app seems to be back to its normal crappy self instead of the extra glitchy mess of late. If people aren’t comfortable right now, I understand completely. You don’t have to decide now. Normally I wouldn’t consider it myself this early. It was the frustration with the pop-up ads that drove me to it.
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  • PM sent! I am glad we are moving to Facebook the bump forums don’t work well on my phone so it’s often hard to follow along.
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  • I think I’ll stick around here for now but I’ve admittedly been super MIA lately. Hoping to catch up and return to being active. 
  • I think I’ve PMed most people who I’ve heard from so far, so let me know if you didn’t hear from me or didn’t get an invite.
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  • I think I'll stick around here.  I totally see the usefulness of the fb group for those who want to join though
  • Sent pm

    and I guess that shows how in and out I have been that I didn’t realize there are 2 fb groups? Eh  :#:D
  • I got the email invite but when I click it says, "The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page." Anyone else run into this?  It's been a couple hours now. 
  • I got the email invite but when I click it says, "The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page." Anyone else run into this?  It's been a couple hours now. 
    I just got it and am getting the same thing
  • kcdo1010 said:
    I got the email invite but when I click it says, "The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page." Anyone else run into this?  It's been a couple hours now. 
    I just got it and am getting the same thing
    If you go to your FB page, you can now search the page and have it come up.


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  • It still won't pop up for me even searching the group. *shrug* I guess I'll just keep trying the link every few hours.
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    edited April 2018
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  • PM sent
    Me: 39  DH: 30
    Married 1/28/17
    TW:
    BFP #1 2/26/17, MMC 5/2/17
    BFP #2 10/10/17, MC 11/4/17
    BFP #3 12/17/17 Birth 8/13/18
    BFP #4 4/21/19 Birth 12/5/2019


  • @kcdo1010 I didn’t know there were two fb groups, either. 
  • I got the email invite but when I click it says, "The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page." Anyone else run into this?  It's been a couple hours now. 
    I have the same thing 
    Me: 39  DH: 30
    Married 1/28/17
    TW:
    BFP #1 2/26/17, MMC 5/2/17
    BFP #2 10/10/17, MC 11/4/17
    BFP #3 12/17/17 Birth 8/13/18
    BFP #4 4/21/19 Birth 12/5/2019


  • I don’t know why it worked for some but not others.... Just check your PMs and we can figure it out.
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  • Pm sent. So happy to move to fb. Tb mobile app is so difficult to use for me
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