LJ

Mar 10, 2009 17:42

I'm back in area, so thought I'd start reading this thing again cos many of you don't like managing your social life with facebook and so I'll have to see what's going on by reading it here. *effort*

Anyway, look forward to seeing some of you more than I used to!

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themadone March 11 2009, 01:02:48 UTC

You can save yourself some effort/time by getting Facebook to import your
public LJ posts in as notes.

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emilydongray March 11 2009, 14:04:44 UTC
just wish you could do it the other way!

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themadone March 11 2009, 16:01:41 UTC

Until Facebook grows out of it's Walled Garden mindset, I can't see it
happening. Not unless there's some way that apps can get hold of your
notes, then you could do something clever that way. But I doubt that's
possible.

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emilydongray March 11 2009, 16:09:19 UTC
no no, I don't want to import notes - notes aren't really that useful on facebook anyway.

It's just annoying that some people publicise an event only on LJ or on fb, and you need to be on both to stay in the loop about all social events. To be fair, it's only a few people who publicise through lj these days, hence my reluctant return. I still hate the awful interface with LJ - nothing is easy to do! I have two proper blogs with google's blogspot. It seems lj tries to do too much, making it neither a good publishing tool nor a good social networking site. I am very surprised to go away for two years and come back and nothing has updated or adapted - they really need to get a better team of developers!

/rant

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themadone March 11 2009, 20:04:07 UTC

Thing is, you'll never get everyone using the same site, so you'll always
have that problem. And since LJ is just a blogging site, there's no real
easy way of exporting events from here either cos it's all just text. Or at
least I doubt anyone goes to the effort of writing their event entries in
HTML with the appropriate markup.

At least it seems that someone has put together a FB app that lets you
export events into Google Calendar. Which is good, but something FB should
let you do without an app.

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