Posted by 10derHeart on June 29, 2009, at 17:58:23
In reply to Re: from babble to twitter, posted by Dr. Bob on June 29, 2009, at 17:19:40
Like gg said, I absolutely don't want my posting name used ANYWHERE on the Web except at Babble. Period. I hate that you would decide to, and not me. I hope you won't.
At first I was sorta nonchalant, but now the more I think about it, the more it bothers me. It's not the actual possibility of someone I don't want knowing connecting my name with my actual self. It's much more the overall principle of the thing. The idea of you doing it *feels* like something is being done *to* me. I think I've had plenty of that IRL to last me. I guess you'd do it as a positive thing, seeing that we had something written in such a way it would be an intriguing tweet? I can see that, and I don't think you are uncaring or that there's any negative slant from your end. Also, I can imagine (as I wrote above in my rambling post) it could bring more people to Babble, which would be great.
Yet, it's still creepy and I'm now starting to see the possibility of feeling unsafe and a little violated. I am not claiming this is rational, or even reasonable. I wouldn't know how to measure that. I'm just saying it's how I'm beginning to feel. Maybe more on behalf on others, than just me, as I post very little these days.
I also wonder how posters will feel when you choose sentences out of certain posts. Will they feel slighted, i.e., "what - don't *I* say anything so clever/interesting/cool, whatever, that Dr. Bob wants to use it?" Will there be perceived favorites, if some posters' posts are often used as tweets? {shrug} Probably not. I haven't seen any of the multitudes popping out of the woodwork of Babble yet, worried about "equal Twitter time." Lol.
Dr, Bob, *are* you going to extract parts of posts and put them on Twitter over posters' objections?
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