Beyond Selidor

...I will not be cross-posting my LJ or comments to Facebook or Twitter, and I will never cross-post anyone else's comments on Facebook or Twitter.

I have quite a large online footprint: I have two Wordpress blogs, I blog under my own name for the ABC Book Show and for my university department, I am an active member of two forums, I have a Facebook account, a Twitter account, a Tumblr, a Goodreads account, a Last.fm account and a series of non-LJ blogs which I follow and comment upon. I also have this LJ, which is mostly public.

While the readership of all these things overlaps in various ways (a lot of my forum friends are on LJ and Twitter, and are my friends on Facebook), I view them as distinct yet related parts of my online identity. I don't assume that because someone reads this blog, they want to follow my Tumblr; I don't expect that my Facebook friends want to participate in my books forums. I give them the opportunity to do so if they wish: there are links to my Wordpress blog on LJ, Facebook, Tumblr, the forums and Twitter, I have a Twitter feed on Wordpress and a Last.fm feed on LJ. I post links to my other blogs on LJ. If people want to click, they can do so.

I use the internet in a way that works for me and my circumstances. Everyone has different circumstances, and people should be free to use the internet in a way that suits them. Most importantly, they should be free to choose and maintain a level of privacy and security that suits them. LJ's latest move in enabling cross-posting to Twitter and Facebook is a threat to that freedom.

I will never cross-post other people's comments to Twitter or Facebook, in case any of you were worried I might do that.