FB Communication?

Bonngo,

There is a Kidney Cancer Survivors FB group with about 2800 members. Other members of this board as well as myself post in that group as well. You lose your privacy as it is connected to your FB page. There is no bio information so ou know little about the other poster except what thay put in a post. There are many more replies then here and most of them are very basic. It is harder if not impossable to retrieve earier posts. There is also a FB group for the Kidney Cancer Association. I stay away from that as it is used to diseminate right wing political commentary from the Heritage Foundation and Forbes magazine and any disenting views are removed as well as diseminating  the personal right wing views of Wm Bro the COO of the Kidney Cancer Foundation.

Icemantoo

Bonngo said:

Ok scratch that idea.  I will

Ok scratch that idea.  I will try harder to log in order to participate in helping others as I have received abundance of support when needed.  

I didn't mean to discourage you from FB; I have checked out the groups. As for privacy, you can make it private in your settings.

very glad that you are making an effort to stay here because you will find support as well as give it. This has been said before but this a family.

for medical information that is more advance, I would also suggest Smart Patients; there is lots of info but it can get overwhelming at times. 

Sarah

Positive_Mental_Attitude said:

I know many people who are

I know many people who are adverse to posting on FB.  I have an account, but I rarely post or "like" anything.  To me FB has too many strange privacy and tracking issues.  Also, I do not want to share with the world that I had cancer.  Very few people in my life know about it.  I'm not trying to hide it, but I don't want it on my Facebook page.  As others have said, there are private groups, and I belong to one not related to kidney cancer, but I never participate because I only log onto FB once every few months or so.

ITA about the privacy issues. Nothing is private. Regardless of how you set your account. So I simply deleted mine years ago and guess what? I survived without it just fine.