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You may note that there are "repost to" buttons on your comment box here. Please don't use them in my journal. Thank you.

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"Repost to"?

...oh, oh, I see. Weird. Because LJ comments totally belong on Twitter...

That was poorly thought out on their part.

I think this is a day late, dollar short sort of thing.

Edited Date: 2010-09-01 02:55 am (UTC)

Facebook and Twitter Connect, Pingbacks (http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html) |

news -- [For those of you who ~~squander~~ spend time on those other social networks, we've just made it easier to stay in touch with your grandparents, forgotten acquaintances, and former bosses on Facebook and Twitter without having to leave the comfort of your LiveJournal home. ... In order to spread the love, Facebook users who do NOT have LiveJournal accounts can now log in, comment, view friends, and join communities using a Facebook log-in/ID and password (much like OpenID). ... In response to popular demand, we've brought back pingbacks!]

I have a livejournal because I don't want my grandparents, former acquaintances, and former bosses to know what I'm doing...

Exactly. There is no direct connection between my LJ and FB accounts, and I prefer it that way. WTF?!

Oh, interesting, the boxes are grayed out for me, probably because I never set up the link to either account from here.

I use them all for different purposes; there is a fair bit of overlap, but I don't link from one to the other.

Ditto this. FB has my real name, which I don't share here.

I really don't need my super-religious in-laws knowing that I belong to polyamory groups...

Yep, me neither and the like.

Like.

Where's the like button here? I would like to use it for this response.

They didn't give us like buttons but they give us the option to repost locked posts? WTF?

Uh durrrr.

Yeah, I know. I got the news thing too.

I just wasn't sure what she meant by "repost to", so I made the comment so I could see.

I'm -still- not sure what it means, exactly, but I have no intention of enabling or using it. :]

Know what the most annoying part is? Muscle memory still wants to Tab-Space to post comments, and now it's Tab-Tab-Space. :P

Eeewww, I never saw that before it must be new. Yeah that, um, feels, I don't know, a bit invasive.

I need to check this out further.

Since they're greyed out, I think you'd have to specifically enable it in your journal for people to be able to repost anything from here.

...or maybe it's just because I haven't linked my LJ with TB or Tw--not that I intend to. Hard to say.

Edited Date: 2010-09-01 03:11 am (UTC)

I just went and upped my security settings to disallow basically any kind of connection, they were enabled before.

how did you do that?

At least across my page, there's a banner across the top announcing it and telling you where you can change the security settings. I just selected everything to the most restrictive setting (which may not have had anything to do with it, maybe the Russians woke up and realized what a horrible idea that actually was or something.)

I don't think it's a horrible idea, it's just not appropriate for me. But I know people who'd use it. E.g. could work for Din on the birthcontrol twitter.

I wish I could get rid of the buttons though.

Well now, that never occurred to me. But then again, I'm not that smart.

Heh.

Lots of people have Twitter accounts that they use mostly to notify people of posts and things they've made elsewhere, since Twitter itself is so limited in scope. And Facebook is full of that sort of thing too. It makes sense for a lot of themed things (feminism, techy stuff, birth control, whatever). A friend of mine uses his Twitter and Facebook to promote his Flickr photostream of local music gigs, rather than to chat to his friends. Blar blar.

It's much less useful for people who have An Identity on Facebook and then An Identity on Twitter or whatever with potentially overlapping but very much separate social groups, but I've noticed more and more people using them professionally/topically etc, where integrating as many as possible is helpful.

the other problem is that people can repost FO/screened comments:

"The news announcement says:
If you set your default to cross-post comments, ALL of your comments, including screened and Friends Only comments, can be cross-posted whenever you choose. Only public comments, however, will be preselected to cross-post. If you wish to cross-post a Friends Only or screened comment, you will need to select the cross-posting option manually when you post the comment. Of course, you can override your settings on a per-comment basis, so you have complete control over whether to cross-post each and every comment."

which is really fucking stupid imo :(

I agree - and it also includes a link back to the LJ entry (so even though other people can't read the entry, I still feel it's a security flaw to advertise that such a person has made an LJ entry).

not only that they made an entry, but it advertises their LJ name - not good for those, as mentioned upthread, who definitely want their LJ and FB/Twitter kept entirely separate.

Yeah, that's one of the things I really object to about this. I absolutely don't want my lj name and my facebook tied together, it's not that there's no overlap but I'm not interested in being readily identifiable on facebook, basically.

*nod* i wish comments would 'defer' to the security levels of the original journal - so only comments in journals that had opted-in could be cross-posted.

Yeah that's just Not Right. Locked is locked for a reason. For it to stay protected by that it needs to stay on LJ. Bleah.

Agreed, agreed, agreed. My FB is separate from my LJ is separate from my Twitter (although, if I was concerned about Twitter privacy, I'd have locked it -- but I mostly use it to pass on links and to chitchat with my sweetie and a group of friends in Dallas.)

I don't see the bu-- ah, hell, I see them now, they didn't show up until *I* was writing a comment.

Will need to go in and tweak the security in my own (friends-only) LJ now :(

-- A <3