D= Yeah, I'm glad a lot of people are expressing this new feature as being a *Bad Idea*. We can hope that helps in LJ being hit with the clue-by-four to drop this feature or at the very least allow for an opt-out to disallow people from using the feature on your own journal, like you mentioned. Oh Facebook and Twitter, how I hate them, and further hate how other sites want to bend over backwards to put stupid (and bad) features on their sites so they can "better connect to the 'Wonder that is Twitter and Facebook'". -_-

Nice to be aware of this now, though (I suppose I should do better at reading those LJ news notes), and I'm thinking, and hoping, that no one on my f-list is stupid enough to do that for any comments they make on my journal.