I'm not silent, just divided.

[redneckgaijin]

For those who are wondering why, the past few months, I've been quieter and quieter here, I have NOT dropped off of either LiveJournal or DreamWidth. And, if I were forced to drop all social networks but one, I'd pick LJ to keep- it's the most flexible and the easiest to keep up with (when Tsar Vladmir Putin hasn't ordered yet another DDOS attack on it).

But LJ is apparently the flavor of the past, and the present is Twitter and Facebook. (And the future is likely Tumblr, but I haven't jumped on that wagon yet.) So, since I have to spend so damn much time keeping up with all these networks, I've divided my posts to use the parts of these services that are most functional.

For short opinions, comments, or alerts about my status of the moment, I use Twitter.

For sharing URLs individually for which I don't have much to say, I use Facebook.

When I have a lot to say, with a lot of different references to URLs or other things, I use LiveJournal/DreamHost.

Question: should I start cross-posting my Twitter, Facebook and LJ posts to each other (so far as that's possible)?

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

IMO, Twitter and Facebook go together much better than either of them goes with LJ.

In any event, the thing you want to avoid doing is cross-linking to the point where you're spamming. I've had to hide a few people on Facebook because they have everything cross-linked to the point where I'd be getting:

1) The Facebook post
2) The Facebook link to the post on Twitter
3) The Facebook link to the post on LJ
4) The Facebook link to the LJ link to the Facebook post
5) The Facebook link to the LJ link to the Twitter post
6) The Facebook link to the Twitter link to the Facebook post
7) The Facebook link to the Twitter link to the LJ post

... and sometimes further iterations, ALL WITH EXACTLY THE SAME CONTENT.

Don't do that to your friends.

[scarfman]

It's what I signed on at Twitter for. I'm not on FB but I am at Chrome (at the invitation of two family members or I wouldn't've bothered, since most of them aren't on Twitter or LJ), and I would crosspost to there if I were made aware of an automatic way to do it.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Am I inadvertently doing that? I definitely don't mean to be.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I understand, m'friend. LJ is where I do all my hanging out. FB is less superfluous than Twitter; I have presences there because nowadays you seem to need presences there, y'know?