I've just re-enabled Facebook connect (I think without getting comments cross-posted although who knows!). This is a test to see what it's doing
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Assuming you ticked the "crosspost to facebook" option I eagerly await the confused response of your many friends to that comment appearing on your facebook page.
I've also apparently tweeted it. Which means the Republicans and the Conservatives will get an eyeful of... well, to them, high art, I suppose.
Not fair. Within a week of properly using Twitter, those tossers follow me. Not the "Groovy Socialist Party", or the "Attractive women out to overthrow the bourgeoisie." Not even bloody Labour, even though I'm following Ed Balls and Ken Livingstone.
Livejournal has enabled a new option by which you can cross-post your comments on LiveJournal posts (even flocked posts) to either or both of Facebook and Twitter. Such a crosspost apparently includes some surrounding context and so there is a possibility that you can unintentionally reveal confidential information by cross-posting your comments.
Like I say, I think the risks are relatively low, first you have to enable the options in your settings, then you have to tick a ticky box each time you want to crosspost a comment to a flocked post, and then you have to be unlucky enough that the contents of the comment and surrounding context turn out to be incriminating.
That said I'm in the position that I've already linked my facebook and livejournal identities, if I hadn't done that, I might be more concerned by the possibility that my identities could be linked by such cross-posting.
Despite the fuss, I can't see that the ticky box makes deliberate and malicious spreading of private information any more likely.
AFAIK the inherent context is only the URL, although of course one might be able to infer things about the original posting from replies to it, and people do occasionally quote things in replies.
Certainly if Gabby's ticky boxing above is anything to go by it's just the comment itself, not even the title of my original post (as was suggested somewhere).
I can see why people who have a strong interest in keeping identities separate might be concerned but otherwise I think there would need to be a very unfortunate confluence of bad luck and proactive stupidity for a comment to reveal anything on Facebook or Twitter that I would want concealed.
I really must get rid of the ticky boxes as they are starting to take on the role of the BIG RED BUTTON and my curser keeps being drawn to them in a frightening manner every time I post something like YAY MORE RIMMING FIC!! or similar highly intellectual comments.
I feel Facebook needs more random comments about gay porn. People's aged relatives would no doubt find it enlightening.
But please don't decamp entirely to DW, the odour of sanctity over there makes me sneeze.
Well, having decamped to DW in a huff, I must say I do like the fact you get 15 userpics for free rather than 6. I also like the way you can click next to a cut and it will open it up in place rather than taking you to an entirely different page.
For some reason my aging relatives are on LiveJournal not Facebook. I'm not sure quite what this says about my family.
I succumbed to the lure of a paid account and extra userpics a while ago. Some lovely person gifted them to me, and I got addicted, so I've kept them on.
There just isn't enough activity on DW to make it worthwhile for me, as posting there would be like talking to myself, from what I can see. I know LJ management are a bunch of fuckwits, but Facebook is almost certainly worse, and life's too short to get too agitated about stuff like that.
*must not tick the ticky boxes of doom*
*do not press the big red button even though it is big and red and shiny*
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This reflects very poorly on me, I have to admit.
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Not fair. Within a week of properly using Twitter, those tossers follow me. Not the "Groovy Socialist Party", or the "Attractive women out to overthrow the bourgeoisie." Not even bloody Labour, even though I'm following Ed Balls and Ken Livingstone.
No. Conservatives and Republicans.
*ticky-tick*
*except I can't through my email client*
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*pets Gabby soothingly*
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Like I say, I think the risks are relatively low, first you have to enable the options in your settings, then you have to tick a ticky box each time you want to crosspost a comment to a flocked post, and then you have to be unlucky enough that the contents of the comment and surrounding context turn out to be incriminating.
That said I'm in the position that I've already linked my facebook and livejournal identities, if I hadn't done that, I might be more concerned by the possibility that my identities could be linked by such cross-posting.
Despite the fuss, I can't see that the ticky box makes deliberate and malicious spreading of private information any more likely.
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AFAIK the inherent context is only the URL, although of course one might be able to infer things about the original posting from replies to it, and people do occasionally quote things in replies.
But I'm unconvinced by the fuss too.
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I can see why people who have a strong interest in keeping identities separate might be concerned but otherwise I think there would need to be a very unfortunate confluence of bad luck and proactive stupidity for a comment to reveal anything on Facebook or Twitter that I would want concealed.
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I feel Facebook needs more random comments about gay porn. People's aged relatives would no doubt find it enlightening.
But please don't decamp entirely to DW, the odour of sanctity over there makes me sneeze.
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For some reason my aging relatives are on LiveJournal not Facebook. I'm not sure quite what this says about my family.
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There just isn't enough activity on DW to make it worthwhile for me, as posting there would be like talking to myself, from what I can see. I know LJ management are a bunch of fuckwits, but Facebook is almost certainly worse, and life's too short to get too agitated about stuff like that.
*must not tick the ticky boxes of doom*
*do not press the big red button even though it is big and red and shiny*
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