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[sarcasticmuppet]

I'm trying out Dreamwidth, which seems incredibly fickle after so recently coming back to LJ (after abandoning blogger), but the recent news post about Facebook crossposting made a lot of people really upset, and after thinking on it for over a week, I decided that it's not something that exactly thrills me either.  Not that I post things that are

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[aravis227]

First of all...it did seem to work since I saw it through LJ. :)

Second, I hadn't heard of it until just now (see how much I read news posts?), so I read through the post you linked. I also like to keep some of my posts f-locked here and don't want to share them with the general FB crowd, but the crossposting doesn't seem to affect my ability to do that. Even if I link my accounts, I don't HAVE to crosspost them. I could set it to link automatically or not, even if I set it to link automatically I can override it with each specific post. So I don't understand why people are upset about it...can you give me some insight? :)

[sarcasticmuppet]

From what I understand, the "Repost to Facebook/Twitter" options are always there, even if you don't sign up for them, but you can still opt to crosspost your comments, regardles of the status of the original message.

so, for example, I could post an f-locked post talking about a disease that I was just diagnosed with, that I haven't yet told my family about, and then someone comments back "oh noes I didn't even know you had x disease, Ashley!" and if they click to crosspost then my information that I deliberately made private is now on their facebook and twitter pages. That's the issue. And yeah, if you are f-locked and you trust everyone on your friends list (which I do, and I don't generally post stuff like that anyway), it's not a big deal, but it opens the way for a huge invasion of privacy by passive aggressive people who "accidentally" check the repost box and apologize after the damage is done. And there isn't a way to prevent that from happening, because you can't opt out of the service for your own blog's comments.

[aravis227]

Ahh...I hadn't thought of that. I've never done it, but the news post talks about comments being approval only, I wonder if that would allow you to filter out anything you didn't want crossposted. I'm just ramblingly theorizing. :)