Facebook problems

[doire]

Took 28 seconds to import my journal

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[doire]

Livejournal have integrated facebook cross posting. You may have seen the little button on your comment.

But the way they've implemented it breaks privacy dramatically. There are 1000 comments in the news post, a poll with 10400 nos and 26 yess and no word from the staff since an edit on day one saying they were listening.

The base problem is that LJ's owner also own a significant stake in facebook, so it doesn't seem likely this will be reversed.

I have a facebook and contacts with a few ex-colleagues. They have a nasty stalker (I've only had one message from him) and I really don't want any link to my live journal. The thing is the facebook code tries to automatically link accounts. There are already reports of work emails getting the "so-an-so is a friend of... would you like to friend them?" messages. I really don't trust facebook's notion of private data so I've exported my journal to Dreamwidth and I'm wondering about deleting this one. My guess is that it's too late

Want a dreamwidth code? I've been a member for a while so I have a few..

[kotturinn.livejournal.com]

Yup - I've also seen other people expressing reservations.

Aha! I don't think I knew about the Facebook/LJ stake/owner link. Thanks. I don't have either a facebook or twitter account and, given what I've read about the former in particular, I don't think I'd sign up even if I were paid to. I also wouldn't be particularly impressed if anything leaked over to anywhere on either.

Facebook's definitely the worst but I have a feeling most of these social circle places are slightly tarred with the same brush. I joined LinkedIn recently, for a slightly strange/sad work-related reason, and have not been entirely impressed with some of the emails from them. Should recheck my settings (am only partly invisible, for some of the same work-related reasons).

Thanks for the Dreamwidth offer, but I'm already squatting (in a very green sort of scheme) on kotturinn over there. Maybe it is time to join the ever-growing number of people moving to that as their main journal. I assume your reference to exporting yours means that you have taken that decision. Can you retrospectively friends-lock everything on LJ, which might go some way to at least making it less visible - but it may be too late for that too. Ho Hum, Hum Ho.