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?

[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]

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!

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Indeed they are! And posting that picture here was the stupidest thing ever, because now I am staring longingly at the screen as well as the kitchen bench!

[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]

hahaha.

I feel so Australian right now ;)

Um, you need a distraction. What can I do to distract you?

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Type up my entries for me? XD Okay, not that that would distract me ... more like give me more time to stare at the biscuits!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

LOL, no, that definitely would not distract you. You could read my home game entries though! :D

[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.

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

Sadly that would break my rule #1: not to start reading until I have posted ;-) So I'd better hurry up typing!!

[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

[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...

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I figured as much. :P Type, type, type! The contestant thread is looking lonely right now.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I hope I do too. I've seen mixed feelings from various people.

[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?

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

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

[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.)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

What sort of biscuits (cookies?) are those? They look yummy!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

If you enjoyed the original Iron Man, you'll like IM2! (And there is a short scene after the credits, so stay in your seats!)

[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.

[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/

[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?"

[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