LJ/Facebook/Twitter explanations

[luxken27]

For those of you interested in the whole LJ/Facebook/Twitter brouhaha and how it may or may not effect you, cleolinda is here to rescue you!

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/901129.html
http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/901884.html
http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/902080.html

She provides excellent examples (with pretty pictures) of the hazards of Facebook Connect, especially if you are like most LJ users and want to keep your 'fandom' life separate from your 'real' life.

ETA: LiveJournal staffers respond to the outrage. If you can really call one comment on page 91 of a news post a "response."

Comments

[chaoticgood0405.livejournal.com]

I just wish they would have made a separate news post that they understand their users are upset and either say what things they are going to try in order to make it better, or say that they aren't changing anything and explain why. A buried comment and small edit are insufficient.

I'll friend you when/if I start doing stuff over there. I'm still in the process of transitioning to this new journal (which I paid for a year's subscription a couple weeks ago *twitch*) so I'm waiting for now to see what happens.

It's just frustrating seeing Facebook, which I think is a really shitty, awful company, take over the internet. That they now have a direct entry into my own personal internet haven is sad.

Last weekend, I thought about posting links to the entries in my new journal to FB, so my friends and sisters could read them. I decided after very little deliberation that was a really bad idea and I'd just work on them to get an account here. I really don't want anything having to do with my LJ anywhere near FB. They say that they own all content that gets put on FB. I'm not comfortable with using a site that takes that attitude about its users. The only reason I'm on FB at all is to keep an eye on Scout's activities.

Anyway...so I made the decision to keep LJ here only, and two days later LJ news comes up with this new FB connect. LOL So my reaction was a giant Do Not Want!

[luxken27]

I just wish they would have made a separate news post that they understand their users are upset and either say what things they are going to try in order to make it better, or say that they aren't changing anything and explain why. A buried comment and small edit are insufficient.

I totally agree. LJ admins aren't exactly on top of things when it comes to stuff like this, and as paying customers, we're really getting the short end of the stick here. We're already paying for something we don't own, so why add insult to injury on top of that?

I have the same feelings re: Facebook. I got my account back when Facebook was a tiny company limited to a select number of colleges. (I think my school was one of the first to ever receive access to the service, in fact.) The fact that FB has such blatant disregard for the privacy of their users? Means there is no practical information about me on there anymore. Its locked about as tight as it could possibly be, and is only used when I want to talk to family or friends I don't have any other means to. I hate it, and I hate the idea of my content ending up on their site. Short of telling people not to crosspost, however, there's no way I can control that, which really sucks!

I hope there's some way to block or ban OpenID users from comms and journals if they insist on continuing with this folly. Dreamwidth isn't hot shit, either, so it'd be nice if LJ got its act together and stopped treating us like redheaded stepchildren who don't know any better. I like it here. I don't want to leave.