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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Thanks for the input, especially the part about the younger members. The problem, as I see it, is that there is no anonymity on the Facebook platform. You are posting under your real name, and that is a big deterrent to a lot of people. The ability for complete anonymity was an important component in choosing the forum software. To my knowledge, our forum has suffered no direct hacks. There was a wide-spread general hack of hundreds of thousands of websites by some notorious hackers a number of years ago, but no information was mined on our site.
Security concerns is the main reason that I had to turn off the auto registration feature. Too many spammers and pornographers are out there trying to infiltrate public forums. Over the years I've learned how to spot them before they can do any damage.
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You are right, of course. But that kind of Facebook group would serve a different purpose. I believe that seeing the names of others engaged in open discussion about their LC experiences (or anything else), identified as "ex-LCers" would encourage people to be more open about leaving. Even I do not want to identify myself--precisely because there is so much stigma about leaving. Yet, there are thousands of people "no longer meeting." The stigma surrounding that needs to be broken down.