Since everyone is taking a position with respect to the LJ/Facebook/Twitter integration...

[fpb]

...I might as well make mine clear as well. I never cross-post for any reason, because I worry about losing control of a post in different fora. What you see in LJ is very unlikely to be on Facebook (I am not on Twitter). And on the one occasion when a Facebook friend wanted to make use of an anecdote I passed on, I asked him to get in touch with the original protagonist of the anecdote and get his permission to publish it. I shall be more careful in future. I have no problem with people reprinting my views, but the views and tales of others are another matter.

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[affablestranger.livejournal.com]

I don't cross-post either, for the same reason as you.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that I have twice been guilty of spreading your writings on FB.... to me, these were essays worthy of a larger audience, but of course I should have asked if youminded?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The essays are fine, and I am flattered. But anecdotes about other people, I should be careful about.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

It would of course be in the worst of taste to repost anything personal, about you or about other people.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

And you a journalist, too! Aren't you letting your trade down? 8-)