To twit or not to twit...

[lordandrei]

Note: I've been working on this post for over a week. Time and a desire to get this post complete have delayed it)

As many have noticed I've recently added overnight twitter aggregation to my LiveJournal. To give the full detail, I've in fact linked a twitter account, a facebook account, and my LiveJournal.

Comments

[sterling_raptor]

I am of the mind that I don't have to read your journal if I don't want to. You can post whatever you want. It is your space. The caveat to that is if it is where others can read it, they are "allowed" to have an opinion about it and tell you unless you disable comments. I have done so a few times on posts where I was just lancing wounds. If someone does comment, you are "allowed" to have an opinion and their opinion and so on and so forth. I always hope that these online exchanges can maintain an adult tone, but sadly, that doesn't always happen.

I find most peoples' posts enlightening, entertaining, and sometimes thought provoking. I don't always agree with what is said, and I have learned pretty quickly who will take it well and who won't.

Blog on good sir, blog on.

[x_bluerose_x]

The only person who has complained to me about it unfriended all of my LJs, so I guess that they really, really didn't like it. :)

Honestly, I use mine instead of a bunch of oneliner posts on LJ. *shrugs*

[inhumandecency]

I can't remember whether I've seen them explicitly say this, but I'm pretty sure the reason LJ allows only whitelist filters and not "public minus three" filters is that they conceptualize filtering as a security tool, not a presentation tool. It's about making sure that only people you have approved can see your posts. If they allowed you to hide a post from only certain individuals, I guarantee that there would be people who assumed that meant LJ would keep track of those people's computers, or something like that. Their lives would be ruined the first time one of their friends logged out and checked their journal...

You might reasonably say that they should still give users the option, and let those who fail to pay attention learn from their mistakes. But LJ has positioned itself as the easy, user-friendly blogging system, so I don't think that's in the cards.

[animamea]

It's your sandbox. Do what you want. I have this nifty SCROLLING THINGY that lets me skip stuff I don't want to read.

Some people's children. I swear.

[jonah777]

Wow. That was sooooooo long...and behind a cut