Really? REALLY?

[crowdog66]

On their Facebook page, LJ says:

LiveJournal is a rich, community media platform that willfully blurs the lines between journaling and social networking.

Willfully?

Willfully?

Is it just me, or is that word a big, cheerful, shameless FUCK YOU! to those of us who have brought up our concerns these past few days?

My money, it is now officially going to Dreamwidth in the future. One step too far, LJ... one step too far on your part.

Comments

[hithar]

Yeah, that's pretty shameless.

It's sad that I'm not surprised in the least by this anymore.

[fairytalewishes]

I'm not surprised anymore either... :(

[lilmoka]

Grr, I can't even... *bangs head against wall*

[nightwhisper]

Whoa. Wow. Ugh, I can't believe LJ has come to this. :[

I've got a few extra dollars this week, maybe I'll upgrade my DW to paid as well. Hmm...

[redsnake05]

I'm glad I moved a long time ago, and I am glad you're here too.

[swisscelt]

Yeah, the sentence as it is makes no sense. I "willfully" blur the line between journaling and social networking. That's because it's my journal, and my social network. Thus I can do so willfully. What LJ is doing is a bit like saying that identity thieves "willfully blur the line" between commercial transactions and banking. Because they are in fact doing neither, it's a blatant lie used as an attempted euphemism to disguise their crimes.

But then, as we've seen recently, LiveJournal does not consider one to own one's own content in one's journal. It's this kind of nonsense that prompted me to ditch Beliefnet, and I'm leaning strongly on doing the same with LiveJournal. Even though their privacy options leave much to be desired, at least Facebook doesn't act as though it owns your content. Not yet, anyway.