My Twitter and Facebook connection stance (for reference)
There's a lot going around about the mixing of Facebook, Twitter, and LJ. Pingbacks to hopefully let us know it's happened, automated cross-posting of comments to locked entries, and other oddities.
I'll state what I hope is obvious:
Like I said, I think most of my friends would consider this a given, but I prefer to be clear.
Edited to add: Oh joy, the pingback message sent as a comment to a public post apparently quotes the entry that linked your post. The problem there? If the linking page is a locked entry, it quotes it anyway. So fair warning, folks: If you link to an LJ entry in your locked post, it may generate a pingback exposing some of that content to people outside your filter. As far as I can tell, turning off pingback in your own journal will not prevent someone else from receiving a pingback notice generated by your having linked to them in your locked post.
ETA2: Aha! It seems there's a note in the FAQ that says that turning off Pingback in your own journal WILL prevent pingbacks from being generated by your own posts, locked or otherwise. Good then! While turning off pingback does mean you won't get notice if somebody else links to you, it also means you won't generate privacy-breaching notices when you link to someone else in a locked entry. I think I'll turn off pingback now.
--Ember--
I'll state what I hope is obvious:
- Anywhere I'm EmberLeo I just sort of assume folks can find me anyway. If my post is public, then the comments naturally are as well. Therefore I don't particularly care if a public comment to a public post in my EmberLeo journal gets linked to my EmberLeo Twitter account, though I'm not that deeply involved in Twitter. (You might not want to cultivate the habit, though, since a lot of other people don't like this.)
- Do make sure, if you're referencing one EmberLeo account to another, that they're both actually me. There are other EmberLeos out there. DeviantArt's EmberLeo is NOT me, for example, and neither is the one on AOL.
- If I'm NOT somewhere, or if you know I am somewhere but the account name is NOT EmberLeo, don't connect the accounts. That goes for my alternate LJs connecting to Twitter, and connecting my LJ to Facebook in any way.
Lastly, and most importantly:
- If an LJ post is locked in some way, DO NOT cross-post your comments to it, eh? I would hope that's obvious, but just in case it's not, don't do that.
Like I said, I think most of my friends would consider this a given, but I prefer to be clear.
Edited to add: Oh joy, the pingback message sent as a comment to a public post apparently quotes the entry that linked your post. The problem there? If the linking page is a locked entry, it quotes it anyway. So fair warning, folks: If you link to an LJ entry in your locked post, it may generate a pingback exposing some of that content to people outside your filter. As far as I can tell, turning off pingback in your own journal will not prevent someone else from receiving a pingback notice generated by your having linked to them in your locked post.
ETA2: Aha! It seems there's a note in the FAQ that says that turning off Pingback in your own journal WILL prevent pingbacks from being generated by your own posts, locked or otherwise. Good then! While turning off pingback does mean you won't get notice if somebody else links to you, it also means you won't generate privacy-breaching notices when you link to someone else in a locked entry. I think I'll turn off pingback now.
--Ember--