On the new Livejournal Crossposting Crap

[misora]

Which is outlined here:


I would appreciate it if you do NOT, as a person commenting on my journal, cross-post to Facebook or Twitter. I prefer to keep my separate online communication forums separate.

This goes for both public posts and, obviously, private friends-locked posts.

If I catch anyone doing this in my comments, I may be forced to purge this journal completely. No one wants that.

Thank you!

Comments

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

Why did LJ think it had to do that DX

[misora.livejournal.com]

Because they want more money and they want to think they're the most spectacular social networking site, evar.

I prefer to keep my RL and my fandom life quite separate. The only one who knows about them is John, and I'd like to keep it that way.

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

Yeah really... I mean.. I made my LJ friends only just for that reason.

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get why they did that, either. I prefer not to have some of my relatives reading my LJ for obvious reasons. (Given the most recent spat I had with my brother...that's one good indication as to why.)

[misora.livejournal.com]

I have no other idea why they did it, other than to be totally "in" with the other social networking sites.

I'm sure my friends on FB don't want to know about some of the stuff I write. Seriously.

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not ready for my family to know that I'm gay just yet...so yeah. I do cross-post my story links there, though, so that's not an issue for me.

[swampblossom.livejournal.com]

Wait, did I miss something?

[misora.livejournal.com]

Check the link in my post. :)

[oymillefeuille.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure about how it works. Can ANYONE cross-post their comments at all given their friend have friends-locked their entry and DISABLED cross-posting? That defeats the purpose of friends-locked entries and invade the privacy of the other person, doesn't it? Or was it just cross-posting comments and not revealing which entry they were responding to? :\

I'm never ever going to use the cross-posting feature on LJ, anyway. I hate Facebook, deactivated it and never ever going to use it, not to mention my Twitter account is locked and I follow less than 10 people.

[alexb49.livejournal.com]

Apparently it reveals the subject of the f-locked entry to the public but doesn't permit people to read the entry, meaning any salacious entry titles will hint to the content anyway. Even if you f-locked your journal, how do you determine that people who friend you at this point aren't merely attempting gain the ability to reveal the content of your entries? This can be used too easily in a malicious manner.

[oymillefeuille.livejournal.com]

But even before the introduction of the cross-posting function, there exists people who friend others merely to expose their friends-locked entries by other means; screen-capping, or direct thread feeds.

I guess I'm not too affected because I never title my entries. In any case, my friend filters still apply and personal entries aren't revealed to suspicious LJ acquaintances.

...stupid social networking era.

[alexb49.livejournal.com]

I think my point was that the individual as an LJ user has at this time zero recourse to limit access to their content. Facebook's user base is astronomically higher than LJ, the ability to distribute information with or without malicious intent is now absurdly easy. This is terrible news for those who prefer their annonymity for whatever reason.

[misora.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I don't think you can *disable* the cross-posting function. The option to use it is there, but I don't think we can remove it. Which sucks, big time.

[oymillefeuille.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clarifying that bit. I thought it was either A) we prevent people from cross-posting in our entries or B) we can't prevent it but at least other people wouldn't know who we are (using different usernames on different sites), what we're saying if everything is all locked.

[qiushuwen.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, this one is more clear: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=279

Misora, would you be even able to tell if someone had re-posted a comment through FB Connect? Isn't it like grabbing the URL to a LJ entry now (CNTRL + C) and posting it as a link on FB now? I don't think you'd be able to tell even before the FB Connect was implemented. :S

[qiushuwen.livejournal.com]

Help - I don't understand. In the link (http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html) it says we have to activate Facebook/Twitter Connect. If we don't activate it, can those commenting somehow share/post their comment on their/my Facebook/Twitter?

[vangrent.livejournal.com]

Seriously? >_> who would even want their facebook friends to know about the crap on lj?

This whole thing can only end in disaster, lol

[maggotpunk.livejournal.com]

But I never revealed your identity as the masked crusader who fights crime in the streets of Gotham City.

This is the latest thing I posted about you. Something that we all needed to know.

http://batmandoesntneedanyhelp.ytmnd.com/

[jennibare.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief! This is just... stupid to the n-th degree. It's ridiculous that there's not even an opt-out and that the boxes are insanely close the post button. Grr...

Honestly, I just use FB for the games. But I'm weird like that...

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

I turned it off as soon as I saw it. It really bugs me :/