obligatory LJ update post

[marissa_214]

I hardly feel like I need to make this post, but better safe than sorry! Very few people who know me in real life know that this journal exists. Please don't do the thing where you connect a comment to facebook or twitter on my journal. I don't exactly understand how it works anyway, but I have not connected my profile to either site, so maybe

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[erdufylla]

My stuff isn't connected, but since I use the same username everywhere, it wouldn't be difficult for people to make the connection. I don't really *mind* if my stuff is connected, though I keep a lot of stuff locked and would like it to remain that way. Still, this obsessive need for all the various social media companies to start connecting to one another doesn't bother me on a personal level.

It does, however, annoy me on several other levels.

1) I dislike the selective tweet thing on Facebook, where someone's posts on Twitter cross-post to Facebook. I get that it's more convenient for the user to only post a thought once and have it post to all their various social media outlets, but honestly... I don't want to see the same post two or three times. That's just annoying.

2) I really really dislike when it does it as an opt-out method rather than an opt-in, especially when it does it without respecting privacy settings, whether intentional or not

[marissa_214]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not overly concerned about people finding this journal, since most of the entries are friends-locked these days, but I do like the modicum of control I have over being able to decide whether or not I want someone to know about it. I especially do not want f-locked posts to be public.

Yeah, the opt-out is terrible.

I don't follow twitter enough to be annoyed by multiple postings, but I totally get your annoyance! Too bad you can't hide one or the other.

[shirou]

I'm in the same position as you: only a few people know about my journal, and I lock everything.

[marissa_214]

nowadays I lock everything but the most innocuous of things.