el jay crossposting policies

[firecat]

I like being able to maintain some separation among my various accounts on the Internet.

Therefore, I'm not planning to link my FB and Twitter accounts to my LJ account or enable automatic crossposting for my LJ journal entries.

I'm not planning to auto-crosspost my comments in other people's journals to FB or Twitter.

Occasionally I hand-post the URL to one of my public LJ journal entries to FB or Twitter. Occasionally I copy and paste a comment I made in another person's journal and repost the text elsewhere. When I do this, if the entry I commented on is locked, I don't mention where the comment came from, and I remove all identifying information.

I don't care if you auto-crosspost your journal entries or your comments on my journal entries. I will adjust my posting habits with the assumption that such things might happen. (E.g., I might allow comments on DW only for my locked journal entries.)

Comments

[snippy]

When you walk around the city with friends and acquaintances, you might be seen from afar by someone you didn't want to know where you hang out. I suppose this is the virtual version of that.

I said elsenet that I wish I could have preserved my geeky in-group membership in something that most people didn't even know existed, but it's hard to do when my cow-orkers are more into illegal torrenting than I am! And they're all facebook friends, even with the bosses. I don't get it, I like my life all compartmentalized so I can choose what to express and exhibit in different places.

[firecat]

When you walk around the city with friends and acquaintances, you might be seen from afar by someone you didn't want to know where you hang out. I suppose this is the virtual version of that.

That might be like someone cross-posting a comment containing information about me. I'm not too worried about that.

But linking all my accounts automatically feels more like there are video cameras all over the city taking photos of me and storing them in a searchable database, so casual snoopers can easily look up where I hang out.

I like my life all compartmentalized so I can choose what to express and exhibit in different places.

Right. I consider my potential audience before acting or speaking. If my potential audience is everyone in the world, then I tend to default to more bland and components of my personality don't get expressed.

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[betonica]

My fb entries and connections are waaay public. And because it isn't like usenet (for many reasons, but lets not go there) I don't tend to post much on fb; I don't want to waste the time of my 640 connections with trivia. So none of my lj or dw posts or comments end up over there.

On livejournal I have about 50 connections, both from usenet and locally / from my work/school. But I'm not indiscriminate about it, so those posts are more personal. Here on dw, I've only got some usenet friends. This means I can post things here (with people who are mostly my age - not primarily 20-somethings - and with people who don't work with me) that I won't post elsewhere. I tend to lock all of my dw posts to you few people.

I think of the various venues as distinct communities - albeit I've chosen who of my friends is in each community. Crossposting all over the place would just get too insane, too quickly, and destroy the mental construct I have of the different groups.

I don't mind how much other people crosspost, although reading someone's near-continuous twitter stream crossposted to fb can be a bit much. But I completely understand anyone who wants to keep them separate.

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[firecat]

I think of the various venues as distinct communities

Exactly.

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[flarenut]

What she said. I generally crosspost my DW/LJ stuff, but that's because for me it's the same bunch of people in both places.

I assume that everybody and their cousin is going to read my fb stuff, so it's mostly innocuous, with most of the interesting things in comment on other people's stuff.

Don't know what the right metaphor is, but it's more than just being noticed from afar, because, well, when you get noticed from afar everyone has a million-power zoom lens with a time machine attached to it...

[eggcrack]

I like to keep my various accounts separate, too. I like having several spaces I can be in and socialize in and I like having control over them, and that there is my attitude to this.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! For writing what I've been trying to articulate about the latest bat-up-the-nightie kerfuffle.

Can I lift your text pretty much intact and re-post it on my LJ please? With or without attribution as you choose.

[firecat]

Certainly! If you quote it exactly please attribute to firecat.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Thank you - it's handy having articulate friends on here, saves me having to do too much of that thinking stuff!

[firecat]

I'm delighted to have saved you the energy of thinking about this, because it really is a pretty stupid thing to have to think about.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It is also just about the only thing on my f'list this morning.

Oh well, there'll be another scandal along in a minute to start the noise all over again I'm sure.