The PSA that everyone else is making

[cupcake_goth]

I'm certainly not going to be cross-posting anyone's comments to FB or Twitter. Please do me the same courtesy.

(Really, LJ? Really? Yes, I have journals that I sporadically update in other places, but I'm (for the most part) at home here on LJ. The StuntHusband gave me a permanent account ages ago, and all my stuff is here! But good lord, LJ makes a lot of bone-stupid "improvements".)

EDITED TO ADD INFORMATION FROM cofax7: "Okay, and here's an update you should be concerned about (LJ only): According to rivkat, the reinstated LJ pingback function includes notices of links from locked posts, and the content of those locked posts. Which means, if I have pingback enabled and you have pingback enabled, and I put up a locked post linking to your post and bitching about you--you would get a pingback notice with some of the content of my locked post."

cofax7 tested this and reported: "I just got a pingback from a locked post, complete with at least a hundred words of the locked post. Consider yourself warned."

Comments

[dravvie.livejournal.com]

You have to go in and disable pingbacks. But once you have, it goes both ways.

So you can't see who's sharing YOUR information, but no one can see if you are sharing THEIR information. It's sort of like the my guests thing.

Also, as long as you never log into twitter or facebook from here, it should be okay. I made sure that the passwords/usernames for both were unique so it couldn't do anything, and then went to facebook, and disable syncing.

Also, there's now tickyboxes to reduce how much you show up on searches for posting in your journal, and for posting comments. You can select to not show up at all, or select to show up everywhere and "Have your LJ promoted Via LJ".

The default is to share EVERY comment you've posted everywhere and to promote you.