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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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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