*sigh*

I liked being able to cross-post my fiction to Facebook, and my cute kitten stories too, but I don't want to cross-post everything!  The changes I would have asked for were to be able to change the setting of the posts (from friends only to wider visibility) when and if I so choose, and the option to choose which picture to use as the thumbnail.  This-all-or nothing stuff removes functionality, and is really annoying!  Sigh.

And letting people cross-post a comment made in a locked journal is just wrong. 

Sure, you can cut and paste your own words, and put your words both in a locked entry and somewhere else, but doing so manually gives you the time and incentive to think about how much is really yours to share.  And it doesn't provide a link back to someone who made it very clear that they want privacy. 

At least enough people are complaining that I can hope LJ will fix this.

Eventually.

*sigh*

I liked being able to cross-post my fiction to Facebook, and my cute kitten stories too, but I don't want to cross-post everything!  The changes I would have asked for were to be able to change the setting of the posts (from friends only to wider visibility) when and if I so choose, and the option to choose which picture to use as the thumbnail.  This-all-or nothing stuff removes functionality, and is really annoying!  Sigh.

And letting people cross-post a comment made in a locked journal is just wrong. 

Sure, you can cut and paste your own words, and put your words both in a locked entry and somewhere else, but doing so manually gives you the time and incentive to think about how much is really yours to share.  And it doesn't provide a link back to someone who made it very clear that they want privacy. 

At least enough people are complaining that I can hope LJ will fix this.

Eventually.

Every work day, my computer lies to me

You see it tells me there are two strong public free wifi channels where I normally eat lunch. So I should have no trouble getting a peek at the internet over lunch, right?

Wrong. Even after my computer connects to one of those inviting five-bar options, and even when it doesn't warn me that there is little to no connectivity, I cannot access anything at all.

When I had the foresight to load two or three pages of my friends page before I set the laptop to hibernate and left home, I can read your words--at least the ones not under a cut. It's better than nothing.

But it's not satisfying. I can't vote in a poll, I can't comment, I can't follow any links or open any cuts.

But I wanted to say, I may be commenting less, but I'm still thinking of you all!

Every work day, my computer lies to me

You see it tells me there are two strong public free wifi channels where I normally eat lunch. So I should have no trouble getting a peek at the internet over lunch, right?

Wrong. Even after my computer connects to one of those inviting five-bar options, and even when it doesn't warn me that there is little to no connectivity, I cannot access anything at all.

When I had the foresight to load two or three pages of my friends page before I set the laptop to hibernate and left home, I can read your words--at least the ones not under a cut. It's better than nothing.

But it's not satisfying. I can't vote in a poll, I can't comment, I can't follow any links or open any cuts.

But I wanted to say, I may be commenting less, but I'm still thinking of you all!