About the latest LJ kerfuffle...

[iamashamed]

I'm doing the obligatory DON'T LINK TO MY  FLOCKED ENTRIES, OR COMMENTS YOU'VE MADE IN MY FLOCKED ENTRIES, to facebook or Twitter, post. In fact, don't even link to the unlocked ones. Not a lot of you guys are friends with me on Facebook, so I won't worry too much about that, but just in case you're thinking about doing it. Most of my Twitter feed

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[juliet316]

Don't have a Facebook or a Twitter, so you're safe from me.

Although I wish LJ would give us a way to get rid of the ticky boxes for those who don't have them/don't wish to have these things reposted.

[iamashamed]

well, I haven't activated mine, so I can't tick the boxes, which keeps me safe, I think, lol.

[wheatear]

I don't really get any of this, but if you disable the pingback feature, I think that should prevent anyone from linking your stuff? I dunno.

[iamashamed]

I am confused as well, all I know it what I've posted here, lol.

[azurelunatic]

(wandering over from, hilariously enough, a pingback)

Nope, separate features. Pingback is an automatic comment from pingback_bot saying, essentially, "Hi! iamashamed just linked to your public entry! Thought you'd like to know!" (assuming we both have pingbacks turned on, and both entries were public at the time the ping was sent).

The Facebook/Twitter thing is "Hi! You know me and love me on Facebook/Twitter; I'm sure you'd love to know that I just made an entry/comment on LiveJournal, because all of my Facebook/Twitter friends know where my LJ is and care about the stuff I write entries about, and also would like to follow me around and reply to my comments in the journals of complete strangers!"

[wheatear]

Yeah, I realised they were separate when I read the news post again. BUT I STILL DON'T GET IT.

I mean, I've disabled pingbacks. So how did you get a pingback?

And for Facebook/Twitter, does it post any of your actual entry/comment or just link to it? And will it link to comments by other people in friends-locked posts? So many questions.

[bluetooth16]

Which browser do you use? I have the fixes for three of them to kill the buttons.

[iamashamed]

umm... Just internet explore, lolz. *I know*... Oh, I can't install anything because my computer is still messed up after the whole Virus 09 thing.

[bluetooth16]

Unfortunately, there's no IE fix for this.

By the way, IE might be the cause for Virus '09 in the first place. It's code is famous for letting viruses and trojans through.

[iamashamed]

you know, that wouln't even surprise me, lol.

[themistoklis]

I have a Facebook but I'm never actually logged in, and I will be extra special careful if I am not to crosspost anything. I feel exactly the same way about the FB/LJ divide as you do.

Also I totally use Internet Explorer too >___> I am resistant to change (on my computer)!

[iamashamed]

<3

lolll I hate change as well ngl.

[themistoklis]

<3

I tried to swich to Firefox once, when I was mad at IE for being buggy, but Firefox refused to import my favorites/bookmarks! And I have A LOT of them o_o So I gave up and IE stopped being buggy and I'm still on it lol.

[paperdays]

www.xmarks.com It uploads all your bookmarks to the interwebs and makes it so that you can view them from any computer. It automatically syncs. You can make it sync with anything. IE crashes and loses all your bookmarks? It still has them. It's saved my ass at least once. (Like for example if you get a new computer.) It used to just be for Firefox but it looks like it works with IE now. You can even have it sync with IE and then open Firefox, download the application, and make it sync there too so that you have the same bookmarks in both browsers.

Fo' real.

I also like Lazarus, but I won't get into all my add-ons. ;)

[singingrain5]

I have Facebook, but you're not added on mine (though I wouldn't mind if you wanted to be friends :)) and I'd never link to anyone's entries without their consent anyway.

I hate this new crossposting thing LJ's got going on. None of my LJ friends are with me on FB or Twitter (I don't even have Twitter, haha) so I'm just ignoring it for now.

[iamashamed]

oh, I'd like to be friends on there bb, if you'd be comfortable with it.

Yeah, that sounds good. I'm not activating it either.

[singingrain5]

I was going to make a post asking my LJ friends with FB if they wanted to be friends, but this whole business with crossposting is making me hold off on it. But I trust you, bb. <3

It might be better if you PM me yours or something if you're not comfortable saying it here, because there are a million people with my name on Facebook so it may be easier if I'm the one to add you.

[iamashamed]

pm-ing you right now bb<3