Dear LJ, you SUCK.

[seishonagon]

I am seriously annoyed at this whole Facebook-Twitter-link thing. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't put the "cross-post" button so close to the ordinary "post" button

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[seishonagon]

On my screen, the normal post button is fairly small, and the checkbox is a)right next to it, and b)the check mark is very light and easy to miss that the box is checked. It would be very easy to think I'd mis-clicked, but nothing had happened, and then accidentally cross post when I clicked post "correctly."

There's a small link under the cross-post boxes, labeled "settings." That's where you set your preferences. It took me a while to find it, too - and fortunately through that I was able to verify that, for example, it hadn't connected the accounts automatically because they have the same email address attached to them.

[jedibl]

I have unlinked my facebook and lj profiles (I did, for a brief while, allow LJ to post things to Facebook before I decided that would be a bad idea. This was back when it was public entries only, and I had many fewer FB friends than I have now.)

Now the buttons seem to be permanently grayed out, so accidental cross-posting seems unlikely...

[tirerim]

In general, I find that the simplest way to avoid things getting on Facebook that shouldn't is to use an entirely separate browser for Facebook. (In my case, my regular browser is Firefox and I use Seamonkey for Facebook, but any two distinct browsers will work.) Just delete all the Facebook cookies from your main browser, and no other site will ever know that you even have a Facebook account.