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While I don't think that livejournal's latest facebook/twitter thing is very sensible on their part or useful, all it does is draw our attention to something that is already the case: that posting personal things on livejournal entails trusting your friends' list. Before this change, if I felt like it, I could have cut and pasted your innermost thoughts and shoved them up on Facebook to mock you. I haven't done this and I wouldn't. And I trust my friends' list not to do this either.
Having had a look at how this new feature works, I think the idea that people could somehow repost your comments accidentally is rather paranoid. It does not look at all easy to do accidentally.
It's easy to forget that you need to be careful of what you put online and, in some ways, I think livejournal have issued us all a helpful reminder. I have been thinking about these issues more lately and I may make a change soon to how I use livejournal/blogs. Stay tuned!
Having had a look at how this new feature works, I think the idea that people could somehow repost your comments accidentally is rather paranoid. It does not look at all easy to do accidentally.
It's easy to forget that you need to be careful of what you put online and, in some ways, I think livejournal have issued us all a helpful reminder. I have been thinking about these issues more lately and I may make a change soon to how I use livejournal/blogs. Stay tuned!