So here's what LJ is doing about the Facebook stuff. I clicked on the Share This! on one of my recent posts on LJ. This button cannot be turned off, by the way. Let me repeat that. It cannot be turned off. I've tried. These are the top options for "sharing with friends." Not all of them. Oh, no. Just the most popular ones. * E-mail * Facebook * Twitter * Google Buzz * Blogger * MySpace *...
If you're one of those who still isn't sure why the link between Facebook, LJ and Twitter is a problem and who thinks that people are just overreacting, go to the link below. turtlesdontfly will explain it all. Facebook-LJ-Twitter - - the Whats and Hows. This entry was originally posted at http://gehayi.dreamwidth.org/412504.html . Please comment there using OpenID.
Seems that in addition to the Facebook-Twitter mess--which I'm sure no member of LJ's staff is going to respond to before Tuesday at least, as it is now the Friday before Labor Day weekend in America, and Labor Day weekend is legally a three-day weekend there, not to mention the people who turn it into a four- or five-day weekend-- the Evil LJ Overlords slipped another little change past LJ users on...
For those who think that LJ is going to back down on the Facebook-Twitter debacle, check this out: After Facebook and Livejournal, Russia Buys Twitter It really shows you where their priorities lie.
... pingback_bot for comms, so you have to do the next best thing: ban it from your comms. Instructions on how to ban it from your communities can be found here . To import your journal from LJ to Dreamwidth: Go here and follow the instructions. Importing my LJ took all of three minutes. To quote Aleksandr Meerkat, "Simples!" (Oh, and by the way, I'm Gehayi over there, too.) I hope this...
For those who are still trying to figure out what the Facebook-Twitter linkage means in real terms, cleolinda did some experimenting to find out. Her discoveries are here . (Link posted with her permission.)
...posts to Facebook or Twitter. If I wanted to post my stuff either place, I would do so. I don't want to. I would prefer to keep the three areas separate, thank you. Tying Facebook and Twitter to LJ is one option that I know I never wanted, and that no one I know was asking for. I swear, everyone on LJ needs an icon with the caption "LJ's Latest Idiocies." Because there's never just one, is...
