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.