My post is showing on Google search. Disgusted

Googled a handful psudonyms there we all are, wart's and all!

If you type in "I am very unsettled..... "this thread comes up already.

There is no delay with Google search. It finds things as soon as they have been put there. Nothing sinister about it being there already.

LauraGransnet

Thanks for the reminder, perhaps you should put this on each forum, thread. This being News and Politics we are less likely to reveal our family issues, or even personal matters, or illnesses etc, even indicators on where we live, the most we will do on this Forum is reveal our political alliances, other Forums and threads people feel like they are being supported and chatting and do reveal private and personal even intimate details and issues about themselves. As a 'duty of care" would it not be sensible for Gransnet and Mumsnet to flag up that these sites are not closed or protected and are available to anyone who is able to Google. The pseudonym protects to a degree but not entirely as we are finding out.

I also have another concern. Is the what I call the "back channel" the Inbox facility protected or is that available to all on Google?

LauraGransnet

You are of course right that you do flag up that our post is not private and go into a lot of detail including using Google and also how you use our date yourselves as Gransnet and the same will apply to Mumsnet no doubt. However, the very first sentence on your long list of clauses and flags is this:
"This policy explains the way that we collect, use and protect your data as well as your choices with regard to your data."

Whilst most of us know that your not talking about our post at this point a lot of people may think that when you use the words "protect your date", that this literally means all our information, post's or private information we give to you on registration is classed as "data" and that this is as you say being protected. I cannot say that your conditions are misleading they are not, however, some people could misinterpret some words, like "data" and "protect" and feel more secure than they actually are on this site.

Perhaps it might be helpful if the warning about the site not being secure should be the first para, rather than down in the body of the conditions.