This HellJay thingie

[platedlizard]

With the latest Failbook idiocy on the part of LiveJournal I am going to be more fully switching over to my new main journal at Dream Width. I have already backed up my posts there, and once I figure out how to back up the comments to DW I will be deleting my posts on Live Journal. You will be able to find them there.

I will not be deleting my Live Journal account as I still wish to read my friends list and participate in my favorite communities. However I will no longer be posting in my journal.

It's a shame, but with Facebook's past history of security problems and Live Journal's past history of repeatedly making bonehead mistakes I no longer feel safe to post personal information on this site. I've been here seven years, and it kinda sucks.

Edit: the comments were already uploaded. So the deletings will commence!

Comments

[megyal]

Ughhh if I ever had to do this I would have to re-do my fic masterlist... and I have like 200+ fics in one fandom.

[platedlizard]

That would be a pain, my masterlist is much shorter.

[megyal]

It would be. I'm trying to think of a way to do it on DW without having to code everything, manually.

[tetradecimal]

The biggest thing I really have to bitch about, since I'm some kind of fossil that never uses their LJ, is that they just made it that much more likely that I'll now have to check reading pages on three different journaling comms.

Facebook was a cool idea at first, but after hearing the CEO answer (read: dodge) questions on the radio, I now feel even less like trusting them with any sort of important info.

[platedlizard]

I set up an RSS feed for my LJ flist to my reading list here :) It doesn't bring over any flocked entries, but I can read all the public ones from my reading list.

Facebook was a good idea when it was just for college students. The problem is now everyone 'has' to have one. I know at least one person who set up a FB after being told by a prospective employer that they weren't going to hire her because she didn't have enough of a online presence, meaning they thought she was hiding something (and as a yaoi writer she was). People expect to be able to find you online now, and that's pretty frightening to me.

There's a short story by Larry Niven about a future in which teleportation booths were invented. Everyone has one in their home, in much the same way just about everyone has a car. With the booth you can go anywhere in the world in a second or so. In the story a man is being harassed by his ex-wife. She follows him everywhere, joins the same clubs he joins, befriends his friends, participates in the same activities he does, etc. She isn't being threatening (and I guess restraining orders don't exist), but he cannot get away from her. No matter how far he moves away from her, she's just seconds away. He ended up killing her in an attempt to drive her away. I kinda feel that we're moving toward a world like that, only via information rather then direct teleportation.

[tetradecimal]

being told by a prospective employer that they weren't going to hire her because she didn't have enough of a online presence, meaning they thought she was hiding something (and as a yaoi writer she was). People expect to be able to find you online now, and that's pretty frightening to me.

I must have missed the part where it became mandatory to allow prospective employers to rifle through your underdrawers and try on your bra before they hire you. Shaking down search engines and websites for signs of online information about you used to be something optional (although imo, a blatant disregard of privacy).

[platedlizard]

I don't think every employer is at that level yet. But I can see it coming in the next ten years. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.

[tetradecimal]

Dear Congress,

Legislation plz~~

I'm sure it's only the asshole employers that are doing it now (or the ones with really public-facing jobs), but.