worryingly jolly batman

Look guys, I'm not at all thrilled about the facebook/twitter fuckery, but let's be real. I just saw a comment on the news post saying

now if someone could tell us why there isn't a total opt out on the fb/twitter crossposting (as in stopping others from posting things that would link to my lj without my consent), that would be great.

SERIOUSLY GUYS, people can already link to your livejournal without your consent. It's called 'linking'. They can do it on facebook and on twitter. They can do it to comment threads and to your friendslocked posts. They can copy your content and post it elsewhere (although that is obviously a Bad Thing which I don't defend). They can crosspost anything they like from facebook - and in fact there is already a feature you can set up on facebook to have your LJ updates go directly there! NOTHING HAS CHANGED except LJ has made this slightly easier and it might be too easy to do it by accident. That's a problem, but this is not THE DEVIL and it's not actually letting anyone do anything they couldn't already do themselves with only a tiny fraction more effort!

Also there's this thing that is weirding me out: a lot of people are saying "do not crosspost my posts or your comments at my posts to FB/Twitter". Now, I do not really like or use facebook that much. But it seems to me that if you have made a public post in your journal about, say ... Yuletide. And I thought that post was interesting and I commented on it and then I linked to that post on Twitter with the hash tag #yuletide ... I'm not allowed to do that? Like, it would never even have OCCURRED to me that I couldn't do that. And if it was a post on social justice, I could well have linked to it from my FB with a comment like "this discussion is interesting." But my flist is FULL of people saying "don't link my stuff on FB!!!!!" Am I wrong, or is it sort of *your* responsibility if you want to be anonymous to make your livejournal, you know, anonymous? I am not FB friends with most of my LJ friends and I really do not understand what would be so damaging for, say, sixth_light if I linked that from my FB and said "this post about Heroes made me laugh!" OBVIOUSLY I would not say "this post about Heroes by [her real name + FB link] made me laugh" because her LJ is clearly anonymous.

I GUESS MY POINT IS: explain your position to me because it seems needlessly and confusingly draconian. linking is normal, isn't it?

I STILL MISS YOU LJ/DW. WHEN I GET BACK WE'LL TALK ABOUT PORN AND SHIT.