Grab a chair and a couple of root beers...

There is a fix for those annoying Facebook/Twitter ticky-boxes that are giving us such fits right now. I am grateful to karadin for sharing it, and I will share it, in turn, with y'all. Pass it around, yo.

http://saifai.livejournal.com/285517.html

Now mind, it just gets rid of the ticky boxes in your comment section. It won't keep those who have auto-share or are viewing your journal in their own style from reposting (and you can at least ask them politely not to), but for the rest, you should be covered.

Geez, you'd think with as many users shouting, "Oh, hell the fuck NO," the Bright Young Things responsible for this debacle would turn around and cancel the whole damn thing. But I imagine Facebook and Twitter have a lot invested in this, and I suppose the answer would be for those of us who have Facebook and Twitter accounts to make our displeasure known to those entities. I don't think we have to tell them our usernames, etc, but we can say, "Hey, we have private journals on Livejournal, and we have our public persona on Facebook/Twitter. We have them separate for a REASON. Cut it out NOW or... I'm deleting my Facebook." And mean it.

I have a Facebook. I primarily use it to keep in touch with my family and those friends that I knew from the dawn of time that I still like and enjoy chatting with from a distance (there's a reason for that, you know). HOWEVER, I will delete it in a heartbeat if I had to, to make a point. I've come close a few times, thanks to their lack of understanding on privacy issues. Which... this is just one more example of!

I'm just sayin'...