Socially speaking

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1756913]

Comments

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

I treat LiveJournal/Dreamwidth very differently than I treat Facebook, to the extent that one is my private personal space and the other is my public work space. I hate the idea that my Livejournal will come to the attention of my Facebook.

[andrewducker]

I can totally understand people doing that.

But you'll notice that my lj name is my real name :->

(And it's the top hit for my name on google too)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

You've said things that, if I said them, would be in breach of my work contract :-D

That's why I don't want to use my real name.

[zz]

i've adblocked the js includes now. :>

[andrewducker]

Well, that _is_ handy.

[asim.livejournal.com]

I think the biggest issue with prior social additional to LJ were the way they tended to default to "broadcast" mode. Items like this, where you have to explicitly add code to provide the service, aren't nearly as big an issue, at least for me.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

*like*

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

I agree!

[mair_in_grenderich]

where are my tickyboxes?

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

Seconded! Need tickyboxes!

[draconid.livejournal.com]

I quite like the implementation of this. If it was automatically added to every entry I wouldn't be too happy (but seeing as I don't even use LJ much anymore, it doesn't really bother me). But as it's optional for the post owner, who then has the choice as to whether their post gets to be liked or not, then it's a cool feature. Although it might be nicer if it were a tick-box rather than a tag you have to add!

[andrewducker]

The advantage of it being a tag is that you can put it where you like.

And I could put the tag in the DW repost footer, which would then add it to every post!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Tag seems messy; not the sort of thing that belongs in body text.

[andrewducker]

That's why I put it at the bottom.

I guess the alternative is to put it in the style code - but then people have to add it to every style (and people have to add it to their own custom styles) which seems altogether faffier.

[simont]

My personal LJ style, in which I view all posts, has a bug which causes those buttons not to show up (though I can see them if I manually switch back to your style).

I think I'm going to reclassify that bug as a feature :-)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

So will you basically post here, then hit the Like/Tweet button to use your facebook/twitter to "advertise" your latest incisive post in case people use that social network but not LJ?

[andrewducker]

If I wanted to do that I'd already be doing it - the functionality is built into LJ.

I don't particularly want to spam FB, and all of my links already go to Twitter.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Facebook is all about news feed spam, you're using it wrong clearly.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

What buttons were on this post?

Adblock & noscript stopped everything but the +1 without me even telling them to.

[andrewducker]

Facebook, Google, Twitter.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hm. Very useful in principle. But I think doubleclick.net has ruined me for any sort of cross-site stuff, my visceral reaction is not "oh, cool" but "When I logged into facebook, I don't want every site I view to automatically be able to find out my real name, and facebook to automatically track every site I visit". (I don't know if they do do that, but I don't like they COULD.)