About the latest LJ kerfuffle...
Sep. 1st, 2010 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamashamedI'm doing the obligatory DON'T LINK TO MY FLOCKED ENTRIES, OR COMMENTS YOU'VE MADE IN MY FLOCKED ENTRIES, to facebook or Twitter, post. In fact, don't even link to the unlocked ones. Not a lot of you guys are friends with me on Facebook, so I won't worry too much about that, but just in case you're thinking about doing it. Most of my Twitter feed are people I know over the internet, so it's not that serious, but I still don't want it to happen. I don't want my private comments/Entries to be posted as Facebook /Twitter statuses for your/my friends/family to see. Needless to say, this would be an invasion of privacy; if I want people to know about my LJ, I'll tell them. Likewise, I won't link to any of your posts, and I'm sure of this, because I'm not even risking activating this thing; I don't want to risk hitting the wrong buttons by mistake, so I'm not touching it.
See, the friends I have on Facebook are mostly people I know 'in real life', like my old high school friends, or my family members. I do not want any of these people to know about my LJ; in fact, I've only told a few people I know 'in real life' about my LJ, and they are all people I trust. And the other way around; only a few trusted people on here know about my Facebook, and my full real life name. The life I lead on LJ, is vastly different from for the one I lead on Facebook(when I'm even on it, but that's another thing).
My LJ: A place for my deepest feelings, thoughts, opinions, rants, fangirling, fandom, fanfic etc, all of which I share with my friends on here, who I trust with the aforementioned things. I feel like this is who I really am, and what I really like/ feel; thus, I'd feel a tad vulnerable if everything was to be shared with everyone I know 'in real life'.
Facebook: A public place, a way to keep contact with my friends and family, even the ones who I don't feel particularly close to. Obviously, I do not want slash fanfic, fangirling, and other personal things, to be shared with the people on there. Only a few fandom people are friends with me on Facebook, and I like to keep it that way. I do not want the girl who bullied me in high school to find out about my online journal; no thanks.
In fact, I don't even want YOUR family/friends on Facebook/Twitter, to know about these things. That's how paranoid I am.
This whole thing is a really bad idea imo. Seriously, WHO wants to share these things with people they know 'in real life' ???.
Anyway, now I've put that out there...
ETA: if anyone wonders what I'm talking about, this
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news post explains some of it. These posts also might make the whole thing a little less confusing.-Louise.
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:47 pm (UTC)Although I wish LJ would give us a way to get rid of the ticky boxes for those who don't have them/don't wish to have these things reposted.
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 08:41 am (UTC)Nope, separate features. Pingback is an automatic comment from
The Facebook/Twitter thing is "Hi! You know me and love me on Facebook/Twitter; I'm sure you'd love to know that I just made an entry/comment on LiveJournal, because all of my Facebook/Twitter friends know where my LJ is and care about the stuff I write entries about, and also would like to follow me around and reply to my comments in the journals of complete strangers!"
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Date: 2010-09-02 08:22 pm (UTC)I mean, I've disabled pingbacks. So how did you get a pingback?
And for Facebook/Twitter, does it post any of your actual entry/comment or just link to it? And will it link to comments by other people in friends-locked posts? So many questions.
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Date: 2010-09-02 09:20 pm (UTC)But in theory, how it's supposed to ideally work:
Anna and Bit both have pingbacks turned on.
Anna makes a pretty awesome public post.
Bit sees the post, says "ooh! Everyone who reads me must go read Anna's post!" and makes a post linking to Anna.
Anna gets the comment notification, sees the screened comment, and decides whether or not to wander over to Bit's post, or to unscreen the pingback.
Facebook/Twitter post the first little bit of your entry/comment and then link to it.
It does not matter if the entry is friends-locked or yours, at this time LJ still offers the ability to check that checkbox and easily post your comment to Twitter/FB. Anyone there who's not on the friendslist of whoever's journal this is taking place in, or not in the filter, will only see the little snippet of comment, the journal name, and then the LOL PRIVACY goat.
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 08:05 pm (UTC)By the way, IE might be the cause for Virus '09 in the first place. It's code is famous for letting viruses and trojans through.
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-03 10:59 pm (UTC)/bossyboots
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Date: 2010-09-01 11:40 pm (UTC)Thank you so much!
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Date: 2010-09-01 11:57 pm (UTC)1) Follow these instructions for installing Greasemonkey on Safari
2) Download Disconnect
FYI, Greasemonkey allows you to install scripts to block ads and other annoying shit on the internet. Disconnect is the script that makes Facebook/Twitter crossposting disappear when you're logged in and using LJ.
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Date: 2010-09-02 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 08:03 pm (UTC)Also I totally use Internet Explorer too >___> I am resistant to change (on my computer)!
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:09 pm (UTC)lolll I hate change as well ngl.
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Date: 2010-09-01 09:07 pm (UTC)I tried to swich to Firefox once, when I was mad at IE for being buggy, but Firefox refused to import my favorites/bookmarks! And I have A LOT of them o_o So I gave up and IE stopped being buggy and I'm still on it lol.
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:57 pm (UTC)Fo' real.
I also like Lazarus, but I won't get into all my add-ons. ;)
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Date: 2010-09-02 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 08:10 pm (UTC)I hate this new crossposting thing LJ's got going on. None of my LJ friends are with me on FB or Twitter (I don't even have Twitter, haha) so I'm just ignoring it for now.
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:14 pm (UTC)Yeah, that sounds good. I'm not activating it either.
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Date: 2010-09-01 09:32 pm (UTC)It might be better if you PM me yours or something if you're not comfortable saying it here, because there are a million people with my name on Facebook so it may be easier if I'm the one to add you.
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Date: 2010-09-01 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-03 11:04 pm (UTC)/late
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:45 pm (UTC)i totally agree that i consider facebook a "public" space. i mean i literally have only family members and like a handful of friends that i trust A LOT on there but those people still don't need to know about my angsty LJ posts.
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Date: 2010-09-02 12:50 am (UTC)clearly my brain has been addled. i mashed two sentences together. i meant 'i only know how to get rid of it on firefox anyway'
:/
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Date: 2010-09-02 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 11:23 pm (UTC)THIS. So much.
This was a total dumbass move on their part.
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Date: 2010-09-02 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 10:32 am (UTC)And I still don't get the point of being able to cross-post comments. Entries, I understand, even if I'd never do it, because I flock this shit for a reason, ha.
Fail harder, LJ.
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Date: 2010-09-02 06:47 pm (UTC)I don't get it, seriously. Just. wat.
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Date: 2010-09-02 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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