Hey Wamheads.

If you haven't noticed, I've finally added social networking buttons to UMD. They're at the bottom of profiles, blogs, forum posts, downloads, videos, etc. Right now we're rocking Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and I threw Reddit in there, because... nerd. You can send me suggestions if you'd like me to add more buttons in the future.

Models and producers: please use them as often as you like to promote your own stuff. And fans: Use them to brag about your favorite model or producer.

I tried to make them all context-sensitive and pre-load them with content info, including description, tags, and picture, so it should be pretty easy to use. Yo please be mindful of the social networks' terms of use, and don't post no titties or dicks to social networks that don't accept adult content!

Thanks for Mark Kelly for kicking me in the ass to get this done, and he didn't even know it

Peace,
Messmaster

Hi Messmaster

Not too au fait with how these buttons work, so apologies for being a little thick.

Just wanted to check how linked this is to Facebook now. Will liking something on here get thrown in to Facebook if we are logged in?

Just asking as I, and probably a few others on here, like to keep certain "interests" private... if you know what I mean! Don't really want friends and family getting an eye full of my personal tastes....

Cheers

Jack

Thanks for asking. I think it's known that I have a completely different mindset regarding privacy, compared to these guys. I'll still never share or transmit your info with them in any way, under any circumstance. Nothing on UMD is tied into them, not even the "Love" hearts.

The new social networking buttons are passive, and they don't contact Facebook or anyone else until you click them and then confirm. But once you do that, beware that you are linking that profile to UMD!

Great, thanks for confirming.

I'd kind of assumed that would be the case, but thought a few of us may be wondering...

My Facebook profile will remain pie-free

Jack

Do you ever sleep? Stoked about the new buttons!! But seriously you should get some rest every now and again!!

Loveee youuuu

Why don't add the buttom "show your bare breasts" too?

Hey Messmaster!

Always apreciate your work for this website!

It's nice to see that admins are thinking about privacy of the users.

Without wanting to be a killjoy, I just wanted to add, that the websites get information about what you wanted to "share" already after clicking the passive button, even before confirming.

Of course, the "share" only will be done after you confirm, but whoever is really concerned about what other companies know about them should have that in mind.

Still thanks to the upgrade!
Greetings,
Blackcat

Great point. When you click any button or link on any site, your browser sends out "referring page" information to the new site. So they'll know where you've been, plus they might already know you from your IP whether you log in and confirm or not. How they'd used that info without you confirming, who knows. For anyone who's justifiably concerned, don't use the buttons or these websites at all.

Woe... wait, so people can click on our buttons and link our sites to the outside world. I have to be honest that makes me nervous! I know I'm on here getting messy with my tits out and all, but this is a different world for me! aaaggghhhh! Please no one click on me and send me out into facebook or twitter etc!!!! :ahahah: Seriously.

P.S. Yes I realize I'm already on the internet...facebook just has a much wider audience I don't want seeing my private parts! These bits are for wammers only!

I agree with you,MypieRogative...our privacy first of all....

This is my secret world, where I can share my pics and thoughts, and I don't want to let my wife (or my daughter,or my colleagues,or my boss,my mother,etc) know what I am doing here!

So, I think that nothing that has been written or shared here has never to be put outside UMD...just my opinion.

yeah at the risk of sounding ungrateful for the wonderful creation that is the UMD, why would anyone want to share anything here on any of those sites? probably any random page here is against the terms of service to post on half of them. What relevance does anything posted here have to anyone on a general social network?

I personally also would vastly prefer none of my (free/spoiler) material ends up on a mainstream social network but I realize it's kind of irrelevant whether any producer here wants their stuff posted to a social network because there's nothing stopping people from just doing that, buttons or not. It just doesn't seem like there's any upside to having the buttons. I guess maybe twitter makes a little sense (but I don't use it so i can't be sure).

It just seems like the most important thing on a fetish site should be privacy, like in a stronger sense of the word than setting your facebook "share with" settings, because the mere fact that people are wammers is pretty sensitive information to probably the vast majority of users here.

[sorry again MM i know you do a ton of work on here and I do truely appreciate it and I always see every time you do a little update someone's gotta come along and complain. Just throwing in my two cents here feel free to disregard]

I believe that every type of social network is not the best site for keeping healthy and safe our privacy...:-S

I guess that social networks are not really the best place where privacy is considered and valued, because their purpose is sharing...:-S

...also I think that hardly anyone here on UMD wish to make known to the whole world his/her own perversions (if you can call them in this way) nor to advertise. :ohbruther:

Anyway, everyone is free to manage their own lives at will, with no restrictions whatsoever.

Appreciate the work, but this is a bad idea.

I find this 'upgrade' unfortunate and unnecessary.

Thanks guys for speaking up.

A lot of people on UMD will not have use for the buttons. They are there for the convenience of those who will, especially models and producers, and the exploding number of those who do have wam on their social networking.

They are just links. We don't use any Facebook sign-in systems, no backend API's, no cookie tracking, and we are not actually tied into any social networks. There is NO way for them to track you by the buttons just being there.

The content you post to UMD is public. If you are concerned that someone might link to your content from their social networking profile, then please remember that the UMD does not exist in isolation, and anyone could always have linked to any part of it, even without the buttons. For example, all of your profiles are already on Google (if they are not private).

The buttons do bring more attention to UMD, and that was exactly their point. Social networking is the new "search engine" of our time, and this is the new SEO, which is part of my job. If your concern is that you want to "limit" attention to your content from the outside world, then I'd recommend considering our private profile and private forum posting options, or reconsider publishing content at all if you are afraid it might eventually get discovered.

The entire world is going social, and we have our place in it. We were here before Facebook, and hell for that matter, Google. But I don't see us as some closed-up camp that has to ignore their existence to protect ourselves. 10 years ago, all anyone could talk about is how to take us more mainstream. Now that we're getting what we wished for, I think that we can enjoy it and fit right in while stopping short of giving up our own principles on privacy.

If I'm missing something really obvious here, chime in!
M