Green Room - Week 26 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

In case you missed the announcement at the end of last night's Green Room - there is now a facebook group for anyone interested in having something else to click "like" on.

The question was asked about if there was a way to set your fb privacy settings so that it didn't show up on your profile. I'll be honest, I have no idea - so I'm going to ASK DR LJ. Or I guess in this case "Ask Programmer LJ".

I'm not planning on really doing much with that group right now. It's mostly a placeholder to have a presence over there, hopefully to help direct people back here. :)

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What's going on with you today?

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[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

I am trying very, very hard not to eat any of these each time I pass through the kitchen.



The giant Super Biscuit in the bottom right hand corner sadly exists no longer, and the other 16 are to be saved for tonight.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Are those ANZAC bikkies?

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

So...... those are for me, right??? :-)

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain that anything you choose to "like" and anything you put on your interests page is public no matter what. That was part of the new changes they made.

Everyone should go through their privacy settings since the changes, a lot has changed, including that they automatically set you as wanting to share information with third parties.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I checked those third party settings last week when someone mentioned it in their status update and mine was automatically opted out so I didn't have to change anything.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I don't think there is a way to tinker privacy settings for individual liked pages. I tend to use as much of Facebook's privacy settings as I can, down to customising privacy on individual status updates. But if anyone knows otherwise, I'd be thrilled. Then maybe I'd join a few more groups and things that I don't really want to out myself in public about.

Today has been pretty quiet for me. My flist felt dead, but hey, at least I have two Home Game entries up. They're on my first page of posts if you don't want to wait and see if there'll be a home game thread ;) I posted about my trip to Brunei and what it takes to be a geek.

I also managed to import some video footage from last week's comedy show. Now I just have to edit the promo video and upload it to YouTube. It's about the only productive thing I have going for me right now.

Tomorrow night I have a date night planned with my husband. I am looking forward to this seeing as I think the last time we went out just the two of us was more than a month ago, when we were in Melbourne. We are going to go see Iron Man 2!

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

My husband and son saw IM2 and said it was good. I hope you enjoy it!:)

I am still waiting for the home game thread too...

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

It was a fun movie! Hope you and the hubs have a great time! Enjoy your date night!

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty sure there's not a way to like something without it being in your profile. I actually recently deleted a lot of my interests when they started cross-linking them to pages and stuffs. But, I still find Facebook to be the most convenient way to keep up with a broad range of people from my present and past.

Today is kind of rainy and dark. I have to work today. Maybe I will work on my entries at some point in the day/evening. I also want to do more packing/purging. I started digging around on craigslist roommate wanted postings last night. I have a delicious muffin on my desk.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm... what kinda muffin? :-)

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yes! I tuned in to Glee to watch an episode I thought I missed and it turns out they're airing season 2 in Malaysia now :D

[kenakeri.livejournal.com]

...Facebook?

So if I'm understanding how that would work, the FB people will follow any links there back here to LJ?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

In theory.

Which is why it's important that no one "over there" who *doesn't* want people to be able to do that should not friend/like/be a fan of the group. (heh, yes, I'm advocating people NOT join something. Weird huh?)

It increases our presence in theory and insures that no one else sets up a group. (It was going to happen sooner or later. I'd rather that I be the one to do it rather than someone set one up and control the content.)

edit to add: From what I've seen, there are *quite a few* of contestants this season who have been linking their entries to their fb anyway. So it seemed like a natural fit for them.)

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

This rain on the plain is a pain and drives me insane! AW

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

How inane! ;)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

You realize, Gary, that because of FB linkages that Season 7 of LJI will probably start out with about 500 people?? =)

I'm at work, still doing that thing I do. About to head up to the front desk for an hour, back in a while.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

If we're at 23 comments in a Green Room in the middle of the week, I'm doubting there will be that many people signing up for Season 7.

Heck, to be completely honest, it's days like this when I take a look at my life and go "Season 7? Really?"

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

Making a comic for my second entry, and my hat is off to anybody that actually does that on a regular basis.

Damnit Tea, how do you do it? *bashes speech bubbles until they fit*

Have no facebook, but just got a deviantart account:

http://rattsu.deviantart.com/

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

There is a way to control who sees it, but you can only customize the setting for your entire "Likes and Interests" section, rather than individual pages that you become a fan of.

If you go to Account > Privacy Settings > Profile Information, the second setting is Likes and Interests. In the drop down menu, there is an option to customize. You can then authorize only custom friends groups to see this section.

Basically, the FB friend groups system works like LJ filters; you can use them for privacy, customizing what parts of your profile or activity show up (and even which groups you appear online to in the chat program), and you can use them for your own following interest (like when you use your filters to view your friends page).

So, you can create a custom group that's allowed to see that section, and then customize your privacy preferences to reflect that.

I, on the other hand, display LJ Idol pride on my Facebook without shame. :D

[finding_helena]

I'm not seeing that option. Have you done this recently? I think they might have gotten rid of it.

[finding_helena]

Seconded those who say -- anything you "like" on FB is public. Including, if you link your interests to pages, all of your interests.

Hence I deleted all mine.

It's annoying.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I deleted all the ones that were stupid, or not controlled by someone I knew personally.

This is the important bit that people might not be noticing:

Privacy Settings Friends, Tags and Connections:
These settings only control the information people can see on your profile. This information, such as your Pages and list of friends, is still public, so it could appear elsewhere on the site and be accessed by applications you and your friends use.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Howdy Howdy Howdy all... Hope everybody is having a fine day.

I use FB a lot actually... I've been able to reconnect with a lot of people from my past and it's mostly been a good thing. Though it can be a total time suck. But there are definitely some things that drive me crazy about it. But hey, you have to take the good with the bad.

Today seems to be much less of a Smurf-punting day than it has been recently. So I take that as a good thing. I'm actually feeling pretty chipper... strangely enough.

Still puzzling over my entries. I fear the twists in the voting this week... somebody suggested another combined vote/Gatekeeper round... yikes! I suppose we shall see!

Happy Hump Day Folks!!!

[notbatman.livejournal.com]

"I fear the twists in the voting this week... somebody suggested another combined vote/Gatekeeper round... yikes!"

This. The Potential Voting Gimmicks/Shenanigans for a Double-Topic with an Open Topic are bordering on epic.

I'm just trying not to fret about it too much as there's not much I can do about it one way or the other... Because maybe he'll surprise us with a regular vote.

Wheeee!

[callistahogan.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone.

These past few days have been really hectic. I recently just moved in with my sister, due to some problems in the home, so I have no idea when I'll be able to write my Idol entries. I'll have to write them both today, tomorrow, and Friday morning, because I won't have time Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. I do have ideas, so those go for SOMETHING, right? :D

Also, speaking about problems in the home: If anyone can spare a few thoughts and/or prayers my way, I'd appreciate it. I'm just feeling a tad bit overwhelmed. Just knowing someone's thinking about me would help so much.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh--I actually had to move out of my house temporarily as a teenager and it was definitely overwhelming. I've had other friends who had to do it on a permanent basis, too. But, sometimes we have to do what we have to do in order to survive. I hope that you are safe and well!

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Home Game Entry #2 - Strange Fruit (http://joeymichaels.livejournal.com/571247.html)

[viagra.livejournal.com]

Requisite green room post to appease Gary.

Also Face to Face (http://viagra.livejournal.com/118703.html). GO READ IT AND COMMENT OR I WILL FEEL UNLOVED AND CEASE TO BE.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I already read and commented. Isn't my love enough to keep you from ceasing? :(