Eeeeeeeeee! ES - you are back! How was your vacation? Quite a shock to see these new implementations after you got back, eh?
When I first saw these buttons/checkboxes, I went omg!WTF?! But after I did a little experimentation, I'm now thinking they are not as dangerous as I first thought. Sorry I got so wordy here, I tried to record everything I did so that I can keep track. Bottom line -- if you don't want to crosspost, don't connect your LJ to FB. They are not connected by default. As long as your LJ and your FB are not connected, nothing from your LJ would ever get crossposted on your FB wall.
However, suppose hypothetically speaking, I saw you published a Photoshop tutorial on LJ, I may want to comment on your post with "Wow! Thank you so much for the tip! This is just what I need to make colorsplash in Photoshop!", and crosspost it on my FB wall. In this case, only the text from my comment, and nothing from your tutorial would appear on my FB. But my FB friends would know I left the comment on evening_spirit's LJ, and the link would redirect to the post you made. Why do i want to do that? Because I know some of my FB friends would love to know how to make pretty colorsplash pictures as well, and if they see this, they may follow the link and learn too.
So I think crosspost can be useful. I certainly can image posting rl stuffs that would be fun to crosspost on FB, i.e. that beautiful seascape I just saw, an exotic food I just ate, my indignant/happy reaction to a piece of news, etc. But remember this: you can only crosspost your public entries. To post a flocked entry, you have to take two steps--post the entry public first (with the "Repost to FB" checkbox selected); and go back immediately to edit the security setting of the entry to Friends Only. The ramification of crosspost a flocked entry on FB is this--only those FB friends who happens belonging to your flist here would have the access to the entry you crossposted. And you are right, while your friends can't access the flocked material on your journal, they certainly can poke around the public entries. So now, in my opinion, the issue isn't crossposting, it's how to manage your contents instead. Here is what I suggest:
Like me, you have two journals. Now is a good time to utilize both of them! Make one of them (ES) your writing journal, and have your fics and fanarts there stay public, but make a flocked entry there letting your flist know your other secret identity. Post nothing you would mind your loved ones, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to see at your secret LJ, thus you can safely crosspost from there. When you make a post at your secret LJ, you may even make a flocked entry at your writing journal (ES), and provide a fake cut providing the link to the entry on your other journal. Make sure you never refer to your writing journal (ES) at your secret journal, you can be sure nobody close to you would know anything about evening_spirit (btw it's still the awesomest username I've ever encountered anywhere)!
*facepalm* I hope my wordiness makes sense to you. This is why I fail big time as a writer!
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Date: 2010-09-05 02:15 am (UTC)When I first saw these buttons/checkboxes, I went omg!WTF?! But after I did a little experimentation, I'm now thinking they are not as dangerous as I first thought. Sorry I got so wordy here, I tried to record everything I did so that I can keep track. Bottom line -- if you don't want to crosspost, don't connect your LJ to FB. They are not connected by default. As long as your LJ and your FB are not connected, nothing from your LJ would ever get crossposted on your FB wall.
However, suppose hypothetically speaking, I saw you published a Photoshop tutorial on LJ, I may want to comment on your post with "Wow! Thank you so much for the tip! This is just what I need to make colorsplash in Photoshop!", and crosspost it on my FB wall. In this case, only the text from my comment, and nothing from your tutorial would appear on my FB. But my FB friends would know I left the comment on evening_spirit's LJ, and the link would redirect to the post you made. Why do i want to do that? Because I know some of my FB friends would love to know how to make pretty colorsplash pictures as well, and if they see this, they may follow the link and learn too.
So I think crosspost can be useful. I certainly can image posting rl stuffs that would be fun to crosspost on FB, i.e. that beautiful seascape I just saw, an exotic food I just ate, my indignant/happy reaction to a piece of news, etc. But remember this: you can only crosspost your public entries. To post a flocked entry, you have to take two steps--post the entry public first (with the "Repost to FB" checkbox selected); and go back immediately to edit the security setting of the entry to Friends Only. The ramification of crosspost a flocked entry on FB is this--only those FB friends who happens belonging to your flist here would have the access to the entry you crossposted. And you are right, while your friends can't access the flocked material on your journal, they certainly can poke around the public entries. So now, in my opinion, the issue isn't crossposting, it's how to manage your contents instead. Here is what I suggest:
Like me, you have two journals. Now is a good time to utilize both of them! Make one of them (ES) your writing journal, and have your fics and fanarts there stay public, but make a flocked entry there letting your flist know your other secret identity. Post nothing you would mind your loved ones, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to see at your secret LJ, thus you can safely crosspost from there. When you make a post at your secret LJ, you may even make a flocked entry at your writing journal (ES), and provide a fake cut providing the link to the entry on your other journal. Make sure you never refer to your writing journal (ES) at your secret journal, you can be sure nobody close to you would know anything about evening_spirit (btw it's still the awesomest username I've ever encountered anywhere)!
*facepalm* I hope my wordiness makes sense to you. This is why I fail big time as a writer!