Connectedness

[kingfox]

[Poll #1516902]

My rule on this? If you have your Twitter activity automatically posted to your LJ on a daily basis, and you have your LJ updates automatically Twittered for you, and you don't post for a few days yet the two services keep on notifying back and forth every day and even killing you won't stop the pointless spam? You're doing it wrong. Cross-promotion I understand, re-reading your intelligent commentary twice is no skin off my back, but an endless cycle of the two not saying anything new? Bad.

Comments

[dosboof.livejournal.com]

Though I loathe the Twitter->LJ with a hatred that burns like a thousand suns, I think Twitter->FB isn't as bad. As I don't tweet I have no opinion on LJ->Twitter or FB->Twitter but the latter seems like it should be fine. As for LJ->FB I think it could work if you don't have a huge overlap in your audiences on the two (which I don't) and don't mind everyone on FB reading everything you wrote on LJ (which I very much do), so I think it could work for some but not for me.

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

Here's how I think it works.

Twitter is 140 characters or less. That's a perfect fit for Facebook status updates, and a similar medium in terms of them being quick notes that you invite a quick reply to.

LJ entries are more expansive, you want people to read and reflect. Same thing for FB notes.

So those two feeding back and forth, awesome. But a Twitter update saying "HEY anyone wanna get lunch" isn't so awesome the next morning at 4 AM.

Good point RE: audiences and segmenting them off. Though I'd argue that's exactly the point of locking down entries on LJ, as those on FB you might not want reading things on LJ might google you up anyway eventually.