What..?

[femsc]

Warning: This post is PUBLIC

What on earth are LJ playing at, giving all and sundry the chance to post everything including comments to FB?

Here's my take on their crass stupidity:

I have a Facebook account, but I deliberately keep it completely separate from LJ.
The majority of my LJ posts are friends-locked, and that's my choice. My occasional public

Comments

[cmcmck]

You're safe with me- I don't do Twitter or FB and am equally appalled by this idiotic behaviour on the part of LJ.

Decamping to DW just came a step closer and it looks like I'm by no means the only one!

[cat63]

g8bur and I have both sent in support tickets to LJ asking them to provide the option for journal owners to block crossposting from their own journals.

Might be a good idea if lots of folk did that, to emphasise the point. Not that they'll listen, probably, but it can't hurt.

[femsc]

Good idea. I shall do likewise.

[llywela13]

Oh, I've had this conversation with several people on my flist today. I can't understand how anyone could ever have thought this was a good idea. Have they never heard of the word privacy?

[femsc]

39 pages of comments so far on the News page; most of them asking for the ability to disable this 'feature' or for LJ to simply get shot of it altogether.

[g8bur]

It's beyond belief, isn't it? I hope they will do the decent thing, and provide a block option on our profiles to bar all crossposting of comments made to our entries or to other comments on those entries.

[femsc]

If I've understood it correctly, it only applies to public posts. But even so (and I could well have misunderstood), stuff I post publicly on LJ is for LJ users only. If I want to post to FB, I'll post to FB. Generally though, I prefer to keep the two accounts separate. They don't serve the same purpose.

[g8bur]

If I've understood it correctly, it only applies to public posts.

Ah; I'll have to go and look again - I may have misread something. If that is so, I probably need not worry, but I still believe that, as a matter of principle, a blanket opt-out choice should be provided in one's LJ profile, even for public posts.

I will never make a post on LJ that's not friends-locked, as I value my privacy very highly, and prefer to remain as difficult to trace as the nature of the Internet allows.

[femsc]

I will never make a post on LJ that's not friends-locked, as I value my privacy very highly

For personal stuff, I concur. On those occasions when I post publicly, I do so because I want to say something to as many people as possible, including those whom I neither know nor who know me. I usually remember to say at the beginning of the post that it is public, so my friends are warned that their comments may be seen by everyone. That does not mean, however, that I want what I have said to be cross-posted elsewhere. If I want to post to e.g. Facebook, I am capable of doing so myself, and indeed would prefer to do so myself.

LiveJournal and Facebook are separate entities, and their function is different. Truly personal stuff that might be posted here or (e.g.) in the Shed would never find its way to my Facebook page. Different purpose; mostly different set of people. There are overlaps, but not many.