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'm pretty disgusted with this Facebook stuff. I know there is no such thing as real privacy on the internet, but I'm deeply uncomfortable with allowing FB such a direct way in. The fact that LJ staff has done nothing to ameliorate concerns other than a wimpy ETA in the original news post makes me wonder if they plan on changing anything or if they will just wait for the storm to pass and welcome all their new users as the established ones leave.

My husband is a member of a site that's kind of a burlesque/pin-up thing, but they have lots of forums and other things beyond ogling topless, tattooed wimmenz. A couple months ago, they did something very similar with facebook connect and their user-base went apeshit (much like here). The difference is that is a site you have to pay in order to have a membership, and the pin-up nature of it made people really twitchy (which I guess is similar to lj users' concerns about fandom, pron, slash, coms dealing with very personal shit) Within hours of the uproar, the staff apologized profusely and made changes that people could live with. I wish at least the LJ staff would say something like "we hear you and we're working on it!"

I've gotten my dreamwidth account set-up. I really don't want to move there, because here is where most of my internet life is...but I really want to preserve my anonymity as much as I can. Giving FB a free pass makes me want to run away.

[psyco_chick32]

I'm really glad this wasn't around when I was working over at 4 as their social networker. Can you imagine some of my work-related rants ending up there???

This whole thing is crap, but I'm so thankful Cleolinda took the time to test things for us.