More About LiveTwitFace
So here's what LJ is doing about the Facebook stuff.
I clicked on the Share This! on one of my recent posts on LJ. This button cannot be turned off, by the way. Let me repeat that. It cannot be turned off. I've tried.
These are the top options for "sharing with friends." Not all of them. Oh, no. Just the most popular ones.
* E-mail
* Facebook
* Twitter
* Google Buzz
* Blogger
* MySpace
* Digg
* AIM Share
* Stumbleupon
* Messenger
There is then a button which says Show All. Click on that and you get the following options:
1. AIM Share
2. Text
3. E-mail
4. Bebo
5. Blinklist
6. Blogmarks
7. Blogger
8. Add to BX
9. Buzz Up
10. Care2
11. Current
12. Dealspl.us
13. Delicious
14. Digg
15. Diigo
16. Facebook
17. Fark
18. Faves
19. Fresqui
20. FriendFeed
21. Funp
22. G Bookmarks
23. Google Buzz
24. Kirtsy
25. LinkedIn
26. LiveJournal (yes, this thing links to ITSELF)
27. Meneame
28. Messenger
29. Mr Wong
30. Mixx
31. MySpace
32. N4G
33. Newsvine
34. Oknotizie
35. Propeller
36. Reddit
37. Slashdot
38. Sonico
39. Simpy
40. Sphinn
41. Stumbleupon
42. Technorati
43. Twackle
44. Twitter
45. TypePad
46. Tumblr
47. WordPress
48. Xanga
49. Y! Bookmarks
50. Yigg
Yeah. I can see that the whole "10,000 people talking to LJ staff" worked SO well. Instead of two options for crossposting, there are now FIFTY.
And as I said, the "privacy/opt-out" button does not work. "Share This" does not disappear from a post when you push it. It does not disappear from other posts, either. It just keeps on showing up on every post--with the same fifty options.
Under that is a link that says, "What are your friends sharing?" Click on it and you get taken to ShareThis, which will tell you exactly what your friends are sharing about your LJ. You can't see what your friends are sharing to other services, though. So either you have to join ShareThis or sign in using Google, Yahoo, Twitter or Facebook.
Can you share other people's posts? Yep. I checked. The "Share This" option shows up on the public posts of all of my friends as well. I could "share" anything they said. (Think about the fact that people can friend you randomly, too. Someone may not be on your f-list, but they can still "share.")
Fifty different places to cross-post. Available to you and to every single person on your f-list. For every single public post you make or have ever made on LJ.
Think about it.
P.S. Dreamwidth also has a "Share This Entry" option. It does not, however, link to every single place to crosspost. I find that reassuring.
P.P.S. So far, this post has gotten four spammers. Nice.
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I clicked on the Share This! on one of my recent posts on LJ. This button cannot be turned off, by the way. Let me repeat that. It cannot be turned off. I've tried.
These are the top options for "sharing with friends." Not all of them. Oh, no. Just the most popular ones.
* Google Buzz
* Blogger
* MySpace
* Digg
* AIM Share
* Stumbleupon
* Messenger
There is then a button which says Show All. Click on that and you get the following options:
1. AIM Share
2. Text
3. E-mail
4. Bebo
5. Blinklist
6. Blogmarks
7. Blogger
8. Add to BX
9. Buzz Up
10. Care2
11. Current
12. Dealspl.us
13. Delicious
14. Digg
15. Diigo
16. Facebook
17. Fark
18. Faves
19. Fresqui
20. FriendFeed
21. Funp
22. G Bookmarks
23. Google Buzz
24. Kirtsy
25. LinkedIn
26. LiveJournal (yes, this thing links to ITSELF)
27. Meneame
28. Messenger
29. Mr Wong
30. Mixx
31. MySpace
32. N4G
33. Newsvine
34. Oknotizie
35. Propeller
36. Reddit
37. Slashdot
38. Sonico
39. Simpy
40. Sphinn
41. Stumbleupon
42. Technorati
43. Twackle
44. Twitter
45. TypePad
46. Tumblr
47. WordPress
48. Xanga
49. Y! Bookmarks
50. Yigg
Yeah. I can see that the whole "10,000 people talking to LJ staff" worked SO well. Instead of two options for crossposting, there are now FIFTY.
And as I said, the "privacy/opt-out" button does not work. "Share This" does not disappear from a post when you push it. It does not disappear from other posts, either. It just keeps on showing up on every post--with the same fifty options.
Under that is a link that says, "What are your friends sharing?" Click on it and you get taken to ShareThis, which will tell you exactly what your friends are sharing about your LJ. You can't see what your friends are sharing to other services, though. So either you have to join ShareThis or sign in using Google, Yahoo, Twitter or Facebook.
Can you share other people's posts? Yep. I checked. The "Share This" option shows up on the public posts of all of my friends as well. I could "share" anything they said. (Think about the fact that people can friend you randomly, too. Someone may not be on your f-list, but they can still "share.")
Fifty different places to cross-post. Available to you and to every single person on your f-list. For every single public post you make or have ever made on LJ.
Think about it.
P.S. Dreamwidth also has a "Share This Entry" option. It does not, however, link to every single place to crosspost. I find that reassuring.
P.P.S. So far, this post has gotten four spammers. Nice.
This entry was originally posted at http://gehayi.dreamwidth.org/414243.html. Please comment there using OpenID.