One more... ^^;;;
I'm not sure if my earlier daydreaming illustration was able to express my concern over the integration very well since I got way too carried away with being YOU-kun. XD;;;
So, I'm just going to leave a link to a great post written about this very issue. Please read it only if you're interested. =3
http://jamiechaos.net/weblog/292/ written by jamiechaos
What I have the most problem with is expressed very well in this part.
[quote]
The current flap on Livejournal is a good example of this. In brief, Livejournal rolled out a new feature in which a user can choose to cross-post their Livejournal posts to Facebook and Twitter automatically. All well and good, so far. But then, Livejournal made their critical mistake: they also chose to make it possible for a Livejournal user to cross-post their comments to other people’s Livejournal posts, regardless of whether the post had been cross-posted anywhere, and even if the original post had been friends-locked, without allowing the original poster any way to disallow this. Naturally, this is creating an uproar. One of Livejournal’s main strengths is the ability to restrict content to a certain pre-selected group of friends while keeping it private from the rest of the world. With this new feature, Livejournal has made it trivially easy for anybody on one’s friends list to quote this private content to the world, whether in innocence or with deliberate malice - and Livejournal users are NOT pleased. I heard in passing that something like 9,000 new accounts have been created on Dreamwidth in the past 24 hours - I have no actual hard data on this, only word of mouth [ update: 9,350 new users on 9/1 (search "newbyday"); tyvm @the_randomist for the info ] Dreamwidth’s latest news announcement mentions an upswing in incoming Livejournal users - and I think that when all’s said and done, this is going to end up sending a clear message to Livejournal (and hopefully, others as well) that the concept of privacy on the internet is not dead, no matter how much those corporations and organizations would like it to be.
[end quote]
It's not that I worry about my own privacy, per se. As you know, 99% of my posts are totally open to anybody.
I just have a problem with the lack of ethics on the part of LJ.
Why couldn't my beloved LJ just stay the same, with its quirks and all???? ;3;
So, I'm just going to leave a link to a great post written about this very issue. Please read it only if you're interested. =3
http://jamiechaos.net/weblog/292/ written by jamiechaos
What I have the most problem with is expressed very well in this part.
[quote]
The current flap on Livejournal is a good example of this. In brief, Livejournal rolled out a new feature in which a user can choose to cross-post their Livejournal posts to Facebook and Twitter automatically. All well and good, so far. But then, Livejournal made their critical mistake: they also chose to make it possible for a Livejournal user to cross-post their comments to other people’s Livejournal posts, regardless of whether the post had been cross-posted anywhere, and even if the original post had been friends-locked, without allowing the original poster any way to disallow this. Naturally, this is creating an uproar. One of Livejournal’s main strengths is the ability to restrict content to a certain pre-selected group of friends while keeping it private from the rest of the world. With this new feature, Livejournal has made it trivially easy for anybody on one’s friends list to quote this private content to the world, whether in innocence or with deliberate malice - and Livejournal users are NOT pleased. I heard in passing that something like 9,000 new accounts have been created on Dreamwidth in the past 24 hours - I have no actual hard data on this, only word of mouth [ update: 9,350 new users on 9/1 (search "newbyday"); tyvm @the_randomist for the info ] Dreamwidth’s latest news announcement mentions an upswing in incoming Livejournal users - and I think that when all’s said and done, this is going to end up sending a clear message to Livejournal (and hopefully, others as well) that the concept of privacy on the internet is not dead, no matter how much those corporations and organizations would like it to be.
[end quote]
It's not that I worry about my own privacy, per se. As you know, 99% of my posts are totally open to anybody.
I just have a problem with the lack of ethics on the part of LJ.
Why couldn't my beloved LJ just stay the same, with its quirks and all???? ;3;