On Livejournal's gods damned stupid new policy
I've been away for a little while now and look at the stupid shit awaiting me on my return.
I've been pretty vocal as far as my complete dislike of both Facebook and Twitter, so it should be obvious that I have no account on either site (and no plans on ever, ever changing that) so, again obviously, I won't be reposting your shit for others to see without your permission.
That said, to my friends list: if you want to be one of those people reposting every little comment you make to those sites, then please don't comment here.
Yes, it is an issue of privacy. I don't post anything here that I would be desperately upset if it were to get out, but at the same time if I lock or filter (and I tend to label my filtered entries as such so no one can claim they didn't know) something here it is because I would rather not share it with the entire world for whatever reason I might have. If I've let you in on a filtered post its because I've decided to trust you a little bit more than I do the rest of the internet again for whatever reason (and the reasons really do vary from filter to filter). Being able to read a locked and filtered post does not give you the right to thoughtlessly spread my business all over the internet without even asking me if its okay or not. If you don't understand why that's not okay, you are free to leave.
But even on posts that are public, I don't want it done. Because frankly, I fucking hate Facebook and Twitter. Its starting to become a rather intense loathing. It was one thing when they were two sites over there that I personally thought were stupid but I could stay over here and have nothing to do with them. But over the last little while I've been watching them spread themselves like fucking herpes all over the fucking internet (and real life) so there is seemingly no where left I can go where I'm not bombarded with shit from both those sites. I don't want to read your "tweets", I don't care how many people from Facebook liked this article, if I cared at all what Facebook users "liked" I would fucking be there!!! They are gradually taking away my ability to have nothing whatsoever to do with them, and that is begining to get under my skin.
I can't control what other people do with their own sites, but I can keep my few corners of the internet as free from Facebook and Twitter as I possibly can. I will be trying the code that my lovely girlfriend has posted, and hopefully that will do as promised and disable that option. If not, I ask that people here respect my wishes with regards to my writing and keep anything said to me here off those sites. And yeah, anybody I catch doing so will be kicked off without exception.
I would like to think no one here would pull that shit, but it needs to be said anyway.
A post of a bit more substance possibly to come sometime later.
I've been pretty vocal as far as my complete dislike of both Facebook and Twitter, so it should be obvious that I have no account on either site (and no plans on ever, ever changing that) so, again obviously, I won't be reposting your shit for others to see without your permission.
That said, to my friends list: if you want to be one of those people reposting every little comment you make to those sites, then please don't comment here.
Yes, it is an issue of privacy. I don't post anything here that I would be desperately upset if it were to get out, but at the same time if I lock or filter (and I tend to label my filtered entries as such so no one can claim they didn't know) something here it is because I would rather not share it with the entire world for whatever reason I might have. If I've let you in on a filtered post its because I've decided to trust you a little bit more than I do the rest of the internet again for whatever reason (and the reasons really do vary from filter to filter). Being able to read a locked and filtered post does not give you the right to thoughtlessly spread my business all over the internet without even asking me if its okay or not. If you don't understand why that's not okay, you are free to leave.
But even on posts that are public, I don't want it done. Because frankly, I fucking hate Facebook and Twitter. Its starting to become a rather intense loathing. It was one thing when they were two sites over there that I personally thought were stupid but I could stay over here and have nothing to do with them. But over the last little while I've been watching them spread themselves like fucking herpes all over the fucking internet (and real life) so there is seemingly no where left I can go where I'm not bombarded with shit from both those sites. I don't want to read your "tweets", I don't care how many people from Facebook liked this article, if I cared at all what Facebook users "liked" I would fucking be there!!! They are gradually taking away my ability to have nothing whatsoever to do with them, and that is begining to get under my skin.
I can't control what other people do with their own sites, but I can keep my few corners of the internet as free from Facebook and Twitter as I possibly can. I will be trying the code that my lovely girlfriend has posted, and hopefully that will do as promised and disable that option. If not, I ask that people here respect my wishes with regards to my writing and keep anything said to me here off those sites. And yeah, anybody I catch doing so will be kicked off without exception.
I would like to think no one here would pull that shit, but it needs to be said anyway.
A post of a bit more substance possibly to come sometime later.