Some changes and a request

[stoney321]

Well, huh. This whole reposting capabilities to FB and Twitter is getting a rethink by me. The day I posted my "zomg I will cut you with my knife!" thing, I had a request on another post to be allowed to link to it. And my response was, "I never mind if people link to public posts because...they're...public. Oh. Huh."

So the new mindset within my brain meat is this: if I have a public post, then I have to accept that I've put it out there. HOWEVER. I would appreciate it if you would not repost people's comments without their permission, because that's just the polite thing to do. And if it's a locked post and you repost to FB or Twitter, where snippets get printed out in the public sphere, that's when you'll raise my ire. I will continue to respect other's wishes to not have their things reposted, no worries there.

I'm a big girl that can admit I'm stupid on occasion. :)

Holy torrential downpour, in other news. Apocalyptic levels of rain have been falling since yesterday. At this rate I'll have a pool, but it'll be gross like the pool in Poltergeist. BOO, UNIVERSE. Yesterday we had three, count 'em THREE tornadoes sighted in a triangle around my house. The kids' schools were on lock down and my daughter (#2) texted me frantically, saying she loved me, woe, it was the end. LOL, honey, we're good and you're in a tornado shelter (movie theaters and schools here are emergency tornado shelters - it'll take more than 200mph winds to knock those beasts down.)

We are, as I'm sure you've guessed, completely fine. She's just 13 and never misses an opportunity to burst into dramatic tears.

My bank teller spoiled me for the Big Ending of the latest season of Criminal Minds. I guess the whole "we're just getting into the show and haven't seen all of the episodes" means LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING DRAMATIC THAT WILL HAPPEN AND RUIN YOUR ENJOYMENT. Who knew? =P

I have a kitten scarf right now. Two kittens wrapped around my throat. Before you say "aww!" let's remember that they are heirs to the Darthanne throne, and are probably checking me for weak spots. I will be helpless before them, because they are seriously cute little things. Smidgen wakes me up at one point every night just to put her lips on my eyes. (She's tasting my sweet, sweet eye juices, I know, but AWWWW.)

LASTLY: if anyone has a copy of Nina MC's "Doppel X Chromosom" I would love for you to share it with me. That came out when I was pregnant with Emily and it was all over Germany - where I was traveling at the time. I love that catchy little tune, but can't find it anywhere. (Or any of her stuff - I can't find her here in the states.)

[ETA] Last night the penultimate Louie CK episode had me laughing so hard I was crying. If you've not watched his show (16 eps) you have missed the most wonderful comedian cum tv star show there's ever been.

Comments

[tabaqui]

It's all totally bizarre to me. I know lj fucks up a lot, and royally, but this wasn't, in my opinion, a particularly big deal. I dunno, maybe i'm missing something, but...eh.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

I personally am utterly repulsed and outraged over the entire lj/failbook/twatter situation because I don't have a facebook/twitter in the first place and I don't want my IRL name or my LJ name to ever, ever appear there for any reason at all whatsoever. I've even asked all my friends with FB accounts not to tag me in the very few photos they have with me in them. It's not so much that I'm worried about real life intersecting with fannish life, it's that I don't want any kind of inadvertent participation on sites that I am very deliberately eschewing.

disclaimer: i am kind of a lunatic, so ymmv. (I have no idea if everyone else's concerns were as specific and wacky as mine, but I suspect not. lolz.)

[tabaqui]

No, i get that but.....if someone on your flist posts to *their* FB with some snippet from an post you made on lj.....their FB people will go 'hrmm, what's this link to this 'elizardbits' thing? What a weird name!' and then click, and then they'll see...well, if it's a flocked post, they won't see anything.

I just don't get how *someone else's* FB friends will somehow deduce that a random name from LJ is *you*, and somehow connect you to *your* FB peeps or...whatever. Do you see what i'm saying? I just don't get how it's any sort of privacy thing.

Yes, if you both have the same FB friends and your friend goes 'look! jane doe said this on LJ!! this wacky site she blogs at!! look!!' and then links, yeah, but..... Random lj people who read my lj? Are not going to know who i am on FB, or if i have a FB, or anything else.

I guess i'm missing something, 'cause i don't see how it connects back to *anybody*, and if you don't use your rl life name on LJ, it still doesn't.

Not trying to be snotty or anything, i just don't get it.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

HAHA NO, it is, as I said, total craziness on my part. I just do not even want Facebook to know my name in case it comes to my house and tries to assimilate me into the faceborg while I am sleeping. (really I just don't want some random person on FB clicking through to read anything I've said on my journal or anyone else's, cause I feel like facebook is some kind of horrible disease to which I would prefer to avoid exposure. I realize this is irrational and I am totally comfortable with my insanity. *dances*)

[tabaqui]

Ah, okay, that's cool. I thought i was missing some really key, obvious 'thing' that made it all make sense.

Honestly, i have a FB. It's not in my LJ name *or* my real name. But it's where i talk to my brothers, sister, mom, and far-flung family members who can *just* manage to use it. LJ or other blog-type sites would be beyond them. FB is, at least, geared toward the least common denominator and if my 77 year old mom can navigate it, that's good.

I despise talking on the phone, so FB works for me, and these people do *not* do emails - it's like pulling teeth.

I google my real name from time to time, and nothing links up so far, so - all good! :)