Heads up..

[ash48]

There's a poll re the recent FB/Twitter feature.

HERE

Will LJ listen? I suppose if enough people make their feelings known they might. They'd be wise to I reckon.

There's are lot of discontent being voiced on their announcement post also.

This link is also interesting. This shows how it could work.

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[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am misunderstanding what LJ is proposing, but this will just show others people's comments, not my post, on their twitter, will it?

If that's the case I consider it more an issue of civic responsibility rather than corporate responsibility. If people are so inclined they already can cut & paste/copy/retype anything they have access to to wherever they want to, including my locked posts. I trust the people on my flist not to do that. So the fact that LJ's new feature will make it easier for them to do so doesn't really bother me too much, I am still trusting people not to do anything to breach my confidentiality.

Having said that, I really can't see the point of anybody wanting to crosspost to twitter or facebook, but then I don't really get the point of twitter itself.

If I am missing something (I haven't really read much about this apart from all these posts saying "Don't do it or I'll defriend you", that poll post was the first to actually provide a link to somewhere where they explain what's being proposed.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

I think there's a few issues people are concerned about. Namely that someone can respond to someone's post and cross post it to FB or Twitter. Which, yeah - no idea why anyone would want to do that but there are some nasty sorts of things that go on and it would be a malicious way for someone to "expose" someone on LJ if they chose to.

Initially I thought it just meant if I posted something on LJ I could cross post it easily on FB (which, ok, I can see how that might be handy for some people), but it seems that even comments to locked posts can be posted.

That's my understanding.

For me it's more about the infiltration of FB and Twitter into LJ. I know it can be turned off - which I will be doing, but why does everything have to be connected to those to sites? As you say, if people want to cross post it's just a matter of cutting and pasting anyway.

It's a privacy issue as well. Just that it's so easy to cross post makes people nervous I think. Lots of people do stuff on LJ they really don't want anyone in the RL to see.

That's my take on it anyway.

(I don't mind the ping back idea though. If someone links, say, a vid on mine on their journal it will notify me. I have no problem with people sharing my vids around LJ).

I think I've understood it all correctly.

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