Really Livejournal?

[eirenical]

You do not need to inherit Facebook's idiocy! I am not thrilled with your new "share" feature, especially as you allow people to crosspost other people's friends-locked and private entries on FB and Twitter. Some of us like to use LJ because it's anonymous, because no one in the real world (like those who know us on Facebook) can track an LJ entry back to us. If LJ becomes as person-locator friendly as FB, then what's the bloody point?

Cut for a fantastic summary of the situation and LJ's actual news post on the issue

Needless to say, please don't crosspost any of my entries onto FB or Twitter. I don't want them there. No one in my incestuous little veterinary community needs to know that I write slash fanfiction. No one in my family needs to know that either. Just... don't. I don't want to friends-lock my journal. I don't want to disallow anonymous posting. I don't want to ditch my LJ entirely and I sure as hell don't want to have to police everything I say here like I do on my FB as a compromise.

Let's nip this stupidity in the bud, shall we?

Comments

[zoicite.livejournal.com]

I don't even understand how this works. I mean, obviously, I don't want my stuff linked on facebook or twitter, but how would someone linking say, this comment, connect it in any way to my personal facebook, which uses a totally different email address? I don't have a facebook attached to my LJ email, so isn't it pretty much just a dead end at that point? The internet is so confusing sometimes.

Oh...maybe it'll help if I actually look at the links you provided. I'm quick.

[rchan.livejournal.com]

*laughs* No problem. The issue isn't that someone could link your comment on LJ to your personal FB page. The issue is that it could end up on FB at all, even if the comment or entry is friends-locked. For example, let's say I was ranting about a situation at work. Even if I was careful enough not to name names, if someone linked my entry to their FB page and say was a "friend" of someone I work with... some people can put two and two together. Granted it's a bit of a stretch, but stranger things have happened.

The major issues, though, are really privacy and content-control. If I have posted something anonymously (by virtue of it being posted on LJ, not FB) or even more stringently, friends-locked it, I don't want anyone other than me able to post that content anywhere they darned well please without my permission. Make sense? ^_^

*chibi eyes long reply, twitches, gets down off soapbox* O_O Sorry for the babbling.