I usually couldn't care less about people I've never met but would use friends-locking in order to lock a post *from* a specific person, e.g. to whinge about someone, or to talk about my supervisor.
In practice I never did that because it annoyed me to have to lock out arbitrary people who didn't have LJ accounts but were as trusted as all the people who did, but I am aware of things I didn't post that I might've if, say, I could lock my journal posts with a .htaccess and hand the password to anyone I chose.
Something else I would like (livejournal, other blogging software) to provide is the ability to subscribe to/filter on tags.
e.g. - not having to restrict "filter groups" to friends-only when the content is public and you just don't want to spam people with it if they don't want to be spammed - some people whom I don't know and whose LJs I read specifically for their essays on XYZ
how do you think facebook's publicity options match up? it drives me crazy that I can make my profile public to "everyone in my network" (which is a large set of people I don't know and have no reason to trust) but not to "everyone on facebook" or indeed "everyone ever". What if networks were smaller: ("chiark", "MondayPizza") ?? (How might you go about approving new members to the network? Surely everyone /in/ the network would want to (be able to) be notified about new members if they were to be able to read their public posts?)
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Date: 2008-03-26 08:20 pm (UTC)In practice I never did that because it annoyed me to have to lock out arbitrary people who didn't have LJ accounts but were as trusted as all the people who did, but I am aware of things I didn't post that I might've if, say, I could lock my journal posts with a .htaccess and hand the password to anyone I chose.
Something else I would like (livejournal, other blogging software) to provide is the ability to subscribe to/filter on tags.
e.g.
- not having to restrict "filter groups" to friends-only when the content is public and you just don't want to spam people with it if they don't want to be spammed
- some people whom I don't know and whose LJs I read specifically for their essays on XYZ
how do you think facebook's publicity options match up? it drives me crazy that I can make my profile public to "everyone in my network" (which is a large set of people I don't know and have no reason to trust) but not to "everyone on facebook" or indeed "everyone ever". What if networks were smaller: ("chiark", "MondayPizza") ?? (How might you go about approving new members to the network? Surely everyone /in/ the network would want to (be able to) be notified about new members if they were to be able to read their public posts?)
muh.