Facebook integration??

[darthparadox]

Apparently LJ's new Facebook integration allows comments to friends-locked posts to be automatically reposted without any permission from the original poster.

Insert unsurprised rage here.

Long story short: Please tell me if you've linked your FB account to your LJ account so I can adjust my important-stuff filters appropriately.

Comments

[aprivatefox]

... because having done it correctly would have involved thinking about what the privacy settings mean, rather than how it would be simplest to move data.

Admittedly, if they open-source the code that performs this task, I'll be curious to see Dreamwidth come in with a well-thought-through implementation.

[julzerator]

I will never be linking the two.

Ugh!

[firebluespinel]

I haven't, and I don't intend to. I am FB friends with some of my LJ friends, but I want to keep the journal secret from some ppl I was FB friends with first. So no worries on my account (no pun intended).

[greenstorm]

Facebook integration?

So..

[echoeversky]

lemme get this straight..

if one friends locks an lj post.. and someone who's integrated comments, it grabs the content and spams it to FB?

Is there an article on this in the memestream yet?

Re: So..

[aprivatefox]

Not quite:

Bob f-locks a post.
Alice can see Bob's post.
Alice comments on Bob's post.
Alice can choose, at the time of commenting, to syndicate that comment to FB, even though people on LJ may not be able to see Bob's post. She may have chosen to do this by default, in which case she would have to actively choose NOT to syndicate the comment.

It doesn't reveal the content of Bob's post, per se, but it does reveal a lot about the fact that Bob made an f-locked post, and the probable content of that post (in the form of Alice's response).

Alice can choose not to do this, but that puts the burden of respecting privacy on Alice, when it's Bob who chose to make the content private in the first place.