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It doesn't really concern me. I guess I see it different or something.
Here's my view:
Prior to the Facebook/Twitter addition, people were free to link to comments and/or posts on my journal to begin with. Locked posts could be linked as well, but people had to be a friend to see it or people would have to copy/paste the content. I also have very, very few locked posts. The majority of my journal is fic, art and other misc. crap. People could easily paste a link in Twitter to something of mine or a link in Facebook to something of mine and I was none the wiser. Now I can be wiser and with ping back see where people are linking my things like they've probably been doing before.
I'm NOT connecting my Facebook account to LJ since FB is 'real me' and LJ is 'fanfic' me. By not connecting to FB, what's the worse that can happen? Some random person browsing my LJ shares a link on their FB/T page that links all their FB/T friends back to my LJ. Will those people know who real me is via FB? No. Is it any different than people coming to my LJ from Google searches, ficfinder comms, crack_van or any other non-LJ list of favorites and the like? Not that I can tell. The only difference is, they just made it easier to do something that was already possible to do before.
I already track something like ping backs from my fic website that allows me to see if/where people hotlink any of my fanart/pictures on a different site as well as where people come from to view stuff on my site. It's kind of fun to track actually. A while back, I found a small group of people on some random forum praising my fanart and it made me excited. It was like finding a stash of missing positive reviews you didn't know you had.
I guess that's my take on it. *shrugs* Even if it doesn't match everyone else's.
ETA: Since I don't use Twitter even though I have a fanfic me Twitter account, I won't be crossposting there and since I will not connect to FB, I won't be crossposting there. I'm already terrible about updating my DW account and crossposting to here from there...
PS: This evening I will do an update post on the fire with more pictures. My parents are hanging in there and the one cat (Callie) is doing quite well and my parents have taken her to my grandma's house where they are staying for the time being.
Here's my view:
Prior to the Facebook/Twitter addition, people were free to link to comments and/or posts on my journal to begin with. Locked posts could be linked as well, but people had to be a friend to see it or people would have to copy/paste the content. I also have very, very few locked posts. The majority of my journal is fic, art and other misc. crap. People could easily paste a link in Twitter to something of mine or a link in Facebook to something of mine and I was none the wiser. Now I can be wiser and with ping back see where people are linking my things like they've probably been doing before.
I'm NOT connecting my Facebook account to LJ since FB is 'real me' and LJ is 'fanfic' me. By not connecting to FB, what's the worse that can happen? Some random person browsing my LJ shares a link on their FB/T page that links all their FB/T friends back to my LJ. Will those people know who real me is via FB? No. Is it any different than people coming to my LJ from Google searches, ficfinder comms, crack_van or any other non-LJ list of favorites and the like? Not that I can tell. The only difference is, they just made it easier to do something that was already possible to do before.
I already track something like ping backs from my fic website that allows me to see if/where people hotlink any of my fanart/pictures on a different site as well as where people come from to view stuff on my site. It's kind of fun to track actually. A while back, I found a small group of people on some random forum praising my fanart and it made me excited. It was like finding a stash of missing positive reviews you didn't know you had.
I guess that's my take on it. *shrugs* Even if it doesn't match everyone else's.
ETA: Since I don't use Twitter even though I have a fanfic me Twitter account, I won't be crossposting there and since I will not connect to FB, I won't be crossposting there. I'm already terrible about updating my DW account and crossposting to here from there...
PS: This evening I will do an update post on the fire with more pictures. My parents are hanging in there and the one cat (Callie) is doing quite well and my parents have taken her to my grandma's house where they are staying for the time being.
I guess my real problem is LJ's assumption that everyone wants to be automatically included in their 'upgrades' without adequate notice. One has to 'opt out' *after* the changes have taken effect rather than prior to it.
And I'm not really sure why I'm using such high-fallutin' terminology!
(I was really sorry to hear about the family house by the way - I've been incredibly lucky property wise and never faced a loss like this. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like.)
I'm just glad they didn't automatically pick up a FB login if you stayed login over there. That would have upset me.
And thanks on the family. It's getting there. Of course now I have that thought of I can't say, "I'm going to my parents house..." anymore.
Those who think they have "anonymity" on the web in any way are lying to themselves. Thanks to Google you can find or link just about anything.
Any way this is so a NON- ISSUE for me. If you don't like it leave LJ.
One a positive note- I really hope your family is doing well!!
And things are getting better.
My problem is I have an overlap and I prefer to be able to remove the temptation from those who stupidly forget that I am trying to keep them separate. If they are going to share it, they better have to work at it. :)
If you want something fun, search your user name on Delicious. I love seeing who's saving my links and which ones over there.
http://www.delicious.com/search?p=lazigyrl&chk=&context=main%7C&fr=del_icio_us&lc=
I've NEVER mentioned my real name or anything like that on LJ and while I have 2 twitter accounts neither are known by anyone who knows me in RL. I do have a facebook that I almost never use (it's to keep an eye on my daughter's account mostly) but the likelihood that anyone I know puts together that FB page with donutsweeper is 1 million to one.
Glad to hear your parents and the kitty are doing okay!!
And I'm glad there are a few others out there not freaking out over this. I was trying figure out if I was missing something that should make me freak out and coming up short.
HUGS!!! How are YOU?