PSA

[dancinghorse]

Substantive post in the works (horse stuff good, beta writing class good, good news re. November book and its promo), but as I rush out the door, I want to assure all of you that I've turned off that frakking new "publish your undies to the world" option. I do port public lj posts to fb because they cross-pollinate, but comments are not included.

What makes these services think people want to have their privacy decided on for them? Offer the option, sure, but don't set it as default for the whole damned system!

And they all do it. Every single one. Sooner or later. Without fail.

Comments

[coraa.livejournal.com]

And they all do it. Every single one. Sooner or later. Without fail.

I read a persuasive argument that they do it because if you are a use of social media, you are not the customer, you are the product.

[floundah.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Looking forward to hearing all the good news!

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I had to turn both Facebook and Twitter on by logging into the accounts; they were greyed-out for me until I did. I was using the previous iteration to post links to my LJ in facebook status prior to that, though (and had to log in each time before I posted).

I can understand why people are strongly against the comments postings -- but those default to off as well. You have to turn them on.