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

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Well I've not been telling bods not to use it, merely reassuring that I won't be using it.

However, it must be said that my friends page is regularly spammed with twitter crossposting; uncalled for, out of context, half conversations of about as much use and interest as dropping random comments from LJ into Facebook would be. People do this for no other reason (it seems) than that the option is there and it's easy. So I can't entirely be trusting that people I otherwise like wouldn't think this new feature equally appealing - thus I am grateful for the wave of bile against it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's fair - I'm always a bit bewildered about the crossposting of Twitter comments to LJ, and even on my own Twitter thingy[*] I see lots of "ha ha yes @personyouveneverheardof I quite agree" which make no sense in isolation. So I don't understand why you'd want to post orphan LJ comments to Facebook, but then I also don't understand why you'd send Twitter posts to LJ and plenty of people do that.

[*] Timeline? I've never really learned the Twitter jargon properly.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

You see if you complain about twitter crossposting people get all defensive and start talking about their divine right to cross-post garbage.

And yet complaining about this new feature gets you labelled as paranoid. I have no idea why anyone would want to use either - and yet twitter crossposting is popular enough to get you labled as a spoilsport for complaining about it, a slip of fate could easily make this new feature as popular. God knows why!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll happily defend your right to post what you damn well want in your journal. I just reserve my own right not necessarily to read it :)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I can't trust people not to use this feature, twitter crossposting proves that in theory it could be popular, but where bods are getting upset is how it makes leaking private information into the semi-public domain of facebook, for example...

"sorry to hear your husband is beating you up - why don't you just leave him!"

...is possibly not something you'd want all and sundry reading about on facebook. People can and do post whatever they want, but one equally has the right to point out where such things could get out of control and cause harm. Complaining about this feature is, I think, pretty legitimate.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do think complaining about it is legit - I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was useful feature! I think it's silly and ill-thought-out, and should be (at the least) limited to public posts, or possibly removed.

I do think most of the people I interact with on LJ would see a distinct difference between spamming your LJ friendslist with irritating twittertwaddle, and posting information about someone else publicly on Facebook. Maybe I'm wrong - but I assume not, since most people seem to be reasonably good about keeping others' secrets as far as I'm aware.