What this is all about

[cleolinda]

So. To recap the last few entries: as you can see in the screencaps, the comment crossposting privacy issues aren't terrible on Twitter, but they are Not of the Good on Facebook. Turning on Facebook Connect posted my full name on my user info page without any warning. Pingbacks have been behaving erratically, but I have personally gotten links to

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[cleolinda]

Oh, snap, really?

[anne_jumps]

Hell, I'm surprised they still allow comments on news posts.

[ext_232604]

I don't think staying here is bad - lots of people are staying on LJ because their friends won't move. Your reason is similar even if its "readers" and not "friends" exactly. I feel like I'm lucky I had the option, to be honest, and I appreciate your mirror over there.

[cleolinda]

Do you know, by the way, how to get the lj user=name code to work over there so it uses LJ usernames instead of DW usernames? I haven't mirrored it over there yet because I realized all the usernames in this entry would show up as DW names.

[ext_232604]

< user name="cleolinda" site="livejournal.com" >

[cleolinda]

Thanks!

[cupcakery]

I fucking hate Facebook; stop trying to corral me there, internets!

This whole linked-in thing makes me very twitchy; it's not that I have people to hide from, as others might, it's just very much of a 'well, If I can think of ways C, D and E to fuck up someone's life using this newly acquired information schematic, then what have other people thought of?'

*shakes fist* Skyneeeeeeeeet.

[ceilidh_ann]

There is something so dodgy about syncing all these networking sites up together. As if the media wasn't already dominated by the same small group of corporations ruling over everything with an iron grip. I probably won't leave LJ (although I do have a DW just in case but man, the smugness from DW only users bugs me so much.) but they're not doing themselves any favours with this fuckery.

[cupcakery]

I'm just imagining the possibilities of the targeted facebook ads synced up with LJ interests.

[faeriemaiden]

Ahahaha, does that mean I'll start getting banner ads for gentlemen sorcerers, equal rights for werewolves, kickass folklore heroines, wild midnight tea parties, traditional ballads about vampires, [insert female character] being awesome, hot bespectacled supernatural-fighting librarians, Spike's glottal stop, and [insert fictional bloke I fancy] reading T.S. Eliot? THAT COULD PROVE INTERESTING.

...still, DODGY AS ALL GET-OUT, guys. Seriously.

[cupcakery]

Now I'm curious to see how they would do: department of (paleo)infectious disease, diary coming w/included soul-fragment, moff tiem nao, scruffy serial killers, slumming @the unseelie court, and zydrate via grave-robbers.

I have a feeling I know how they'd do there's a weeping angel behind you, though, and it wouldn't be very nice.

[spectralbovine]

Oh man. All that stuff about, basically, one rich Russian dude buying up all of social media is pretty freaky.

But I'm with you on being really annoyed that all this shit is causing people to leave LJ. I like it here, fuckwittery notwithstanding!

(Also, I completely agree with your interpretation of coffeechica's comment. I've met the staff. They're not evil. They're like us. The people writing the checks, however? Not so much, clearly.)

[msmcknittington]

It wouldn't be so freaky if it weren't for all the privacy concerns. Then it would just be big whoop -- for me, at least. But since there are so many massive fuck-ups in regards to privacy with everything that Facebook touches, then SUPER FREAKY.