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To everyone who's been discussing the opening of LJ's fandom culture to FB and Twitter via the link options, I would like you to read what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pir8fancier is saying in this post, and think about it carefully.
I'm not against fandom co-existing in other blogspheres, and I certainly don't think LJ is the main creative center of fandom.
I do, however, think LJ is one of the main cores of fandom, and it's that for a reason. It's the same reason why people have fought against TOS changes, and why other cores have the same spirit as LJ's fandom does: It's a loose environment. Yes, we have to warn for explicit content, and yes, we have to make sure LJ is (and by extent, we are) exempt of legal repercussions if underage people get access to this kind of content. And yes, we are oftentimes exposed to some very nasty actions caused by fellow fandomers.
But Facebook especially is not a place where a fandom can truly exist. Twitter is a gray zone of blogging, but FB is not. It has a TOS that aggressively attacks its users' privacy, no matter how many times the media and users retaliate. It's an incredibly overexposed environment, even if one locks their own information. I'm not saying this is not a similar case on LJ, but I am saying that LJ is a fandom blogsphere, and FB is emphatically NOT.
And this is why interconnecting the two should not happen, in my opinion.
Now, if you want to connect LJ and, say, TwoP, we can discuss that heartily.
pir8fancier is saying in this post, and think about it carefully.I'm not against fandom co-existing in other blogspheres, and I certainly don't think LJ is the main creative center of fandom.
I do, however, think LJ is one of the main cores of fandom, and it's that for a reason. It's the same reason why people have fought against TOS changes, and why other cores have the same spirit as LJ's fandom does: It's a loose environment. Yes, we have to warn for explicit content, and yes, we have to make sure LJ is (and by extent, we are) exempt of legal repercussions if underage people get access to this kind of content. And yes, we are oftentimes exposed to some very nasty actions caused by fellow fandomers.
But Facebook especially is not a place where a fandom can truly exist. Twitter is a gray zone of blogging, but FB is not. It has a TOS that aggressively attacks its users' privacy, no matter how many times the media and users retaliate. It's an incredibly overexposed environment, even if one locks their own information. I'm not saying this is not a similar case on LJ, but I am saying that LJ is a fandom blogsphere, and FB is emphatically NOT.
And this is why interconnecting the two should not happen, in my opinion.
Now, if you want to connect LJ and, say, TwoP, we can discuss that heartily.
