And what was she wearing and what did he say

[venta]

For a number of years now - despite all my posts being public - you lot have been assiduously not crossposting them to Twitter, Facebook and similar sites.

I assume that this is because you don't want to and/or you think it's inappropriate, not that you've been confounded until now by the lack of an appropriate tickybox.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Yes, I guess I agree that (a) it's a stupid feature and (b) I've felt no need to tell people not to use it on their comments on my LJ.

Though I think it's still conceivable that, had there not been people posting their dislike of this feature, people might take advantage of a new feature that makes crossposting easier, when before it was too much hassle (I've noticed a general trend in increase of crossposting between LJ-clones, Twitter, Facebook that comes as a result of clients, when people hadn't been doing this manually before) - without thinking of the implications, or feeling that they have "ownership" over their comments without realising why this feature might cause problems for others. I could have seen a situation where it happens, and someone pleads "But I was only using LJ's feature, I didn't realise it would be a problem", so I guess people are just explicitly saying upfront that they don't like it.

There's also a risk of doing so accidentally, due to the bad UI decision of changing the alt-tab order, and enabling it simply as a ticky box before the Post button.

The other side of this (which I haven't seen people mention so much) is that on Facebook, I have no desire to see my news feed flooded with out of context comment spam on discussions I have no interest in or can't take part in. If I want to follow comments, we can do that with Notification.

I'm waiting for Facebook to retaliate with a "crosspost to LJ" feature, then we'll wake up and see our friends pages 90% full of Farmville updates...

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Well put!

I'm waiting for Facebook to retaliate with a "crosspost to LJ" feature, then we'll wake up and see our friends pages 90% full of Farmville updates...

Oh god, oh god NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I want a "likes this" button for your comment.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Given that LJ's Russian owners have a sizeable stake in FB and are also moving on Twitter, and given that they've been advertising the fact that FB users can comment on LJ and join communities with their FB login, I suspect that the next step will be monetising LJ as a blogging tool for FB ...