Do we really need "private" comments?

If any of you read my comments yesterday in the red group, you saw that I was upset by something that happened in another of my groups; someone posted a comment that she meant to be private to another member but she accidentally left "Everyone" checked and we all saw what she wrote. Part of her message was negative about me (although I don't hold that against her; I know she didn't mean it for my eyes).

It got me thinking though. Why, in such small groups - 4 maximum - do we need to have the option of private comments? Why should we have to go to that extreme? Isn't the reason of keeping the group small that you form a tight little motivational support system? What is the point of needing to get even more private, to the point where it can seem that you're talking behind someone else's back? As people who have weight issues, haven't we all dealt with that enough in our lives? And another thing I realized, the group comments had been pretty slow over the last week or so, and I bet it's because a couple of them were using the private comments and talking only to each other, but to the rest of us it seems like an "inactive" group.

Maybe it's just me, but I think in this type of system it defeats the purpose. Do the rest of you use the private "whisper" comment options? How do you feel about them?

Kate (kissmekate02)

Sun. Sep 18, 8:38am

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