New LJ thing.

[son_of_darkness]

Ok, I'm not sure I get the aggression, you guys. o_0 I have no particular interest in the new feature and zero desire to use it, but I don't necessarily think it's evil. In fact, for some people it could be quite useful. Most websites have a "cross post to facebook/twitter" feature these days. And hey... nothing wrong with facebook or twitter,

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[annephoenix]

Well ... it means that you can comment on a friends locked post of mine, but repost your comment to your facebook, which then provides, on facebook, a handy link to my friends locked post which maybe I didn't want everyone knowing about because it was e.g. filtered ....

[son_of_darkness]

Ok, and if people are going to do that, then they are dicks. But that's more the fault of the dickish individual than that of the feature itself, no?

[annephoenix]

Yes of course, but it would be nice if the livejournal owner had the power to disable the function for locked posts.

[florahart]

but 1. it's relatively easy to do accidentally and in the context of a locked post a user might well say something that utterly and totally outs someone without really meaning to.

and 2. once again, HI LJ, WE HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT OPTING OUT BEING AVAILABLE BEFORE.

(and 3. I pretty much hate the existence of the facebook connections all over everywhere anyway. I mean, FB is another organization that SUCKS at imagining that users might want to NOT turn on an invasive option; when they turned on the connection to google? I looked up a phrase in French, not related to or in Facebook, and when I went back to FB, it offered me to the option to have French as my default language. CREEP. A. RAMA.)

[cluegirl]

It's not the crosspost to facebook or twitter that's the problem, Kai, it's that people can use that feature to link perfect strangers back to your filtered, non-public posts.

For instance, if I comment on your fetish filter, and then link my comment to my facebook, then anyone who follows that link, is reading your fetish filter. And if you and I are friends IRL, and people who know me also know you, then those people who know you, and whom you did NOT include in that filter, are reading about your sexcapades. And then asking you about them at Christmas dinner, in front of your Gran.

[dysonrules]

Has anyone actually tested this feature? Because I don't think someone randomly following a link from FB would be allowed to view an f-locked post. It doesn't make sense.

[cluegirl]

You know what? It is easily tested.

Kai, d'you want to put up a tester post with your fetish filter, so we can see if it links to facebook when someone comments?

[son_of_darkness]

Here you go

[gmth]

Most websites have a "cross post to facebook/twitter" feature these days.

The big difference here is for those sites you are posting your own content to Twitter/FB using those features. This feature is giving you the chance to post MY content to YOUR Twitter/FB without my consent if you post a comment like this one, that quotes part of your post, to those other sites. That's not cool, IMO.

[son_of_darkness]

Fair enough. That is a good point and I can see why that would be a worry. I think I'm just a bit too trusting and assume people would use some common sense when it comes to cross-posting things that are obviously filtered or locked. :\

[pingrid]

More or less C&P of a comment I posted somewhere else, because I'm lazy

[dysonrules]

I don't know about you, but somehow I think the odds of someone saying, "I'MA COMMENT ON THIS AWESOME BDSM THINGER AND CROSS-POST IT TO MY FB SO MY OLD GRANNY CAN GET A LOL FROM IT" will be fairly low...

MAYBE IT'S JUST ME.

[son_of_darkness]

I thought basically the same. It seems unlikely that people are going to purposefully abuse this feature to post content that is obviously locked or personal. But I don't know... I guess accidents do happen, and some people are just dicks, so... *shrug*

[dysonrules]

Can you make a post with just me on it (or one of the filters I'm on)? I want to test this and see if it will link someone back to a locked journal entry. I'll get someone else on FB to try and click it.

[effervescent]

I get the irritation/anger with letting people post comments they've made to f-locked posts elsewhere - I think it's justified, because it's a crappy thing for LJ to do.

But I don't understand the kneejerk 'omghate!!1' reaction that some people have had to the simple existence of the buttons. I mean, it's no difference than the open-id options... It's like the 'share this' options that are on pretty much every site, now, which I just ignore.