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Sep 02, 2010 11:22

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 ( Read more... )

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sparklielizard September 2 2010, 11:24:05 UTC
My thoughts too. People always could copy and paste. This is just another way to leak the contents of someone's journal. One person's rather threatening post to her friends list made me laugh because I know she's guilty of copy and paste when she shouldn't have before ;-)

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absinthecity September 2 2010, 11:35:06 UTC
*nod* totally. I'm quite tempted to "cull" the very people who've posted accusatory and suspicious entries threatening to get rid of readers who cross-post, because all it tells me is that they don't trust me.

The worry is far more about accidental cross-posting as I see it, and I think that's a reasonable concern.

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sparklielizard September 2 2010, 11:44:16 UTC
Heh - if I culled everyone who posted that, I think my friends list would halve ;-)

Is it really possible to accidentally cross-post though? Are people really that daft? I always liked to feel that LJ has a slightly brighter than average users - you've got to be fairly with it to understand, say, custom posts.

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absinthecity September 2 2010, 11:54:19 UTC
Most of my friends are chilled about it or haven't noticed/don't care, fortunately.

I think you're probably right, but I guess it only has to happen once on an "I didn't know you were looking for a job" type comment to mess with someone's life...it's stuff in communities where you don't necessarily know the general level of intelligence (and may be specifically requesting this sort of advice) that will probably be the most problematic.

As ever though, all this tells us is that we all need to get lives and stop asking for help from strangers on the internet (joke).

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sparklielizard September 2 2010, 12:01:38 UTC
True - it's another way that people can let the cat out of the bag on things. It's already easily done on Facebook - somebody might read something on LJ and not realise it's not common knowledge and then mention it on a Facebook post. It doesn't have to be reposted using a mechanism for that to happen. It is one of the perils of our modern lives ;-)

I think the big problem is that half the people we know on the Internet aren't strangers and are people we know for real, which is why things get so messed up and confused! Twenty years ago work colleagues would never interact with social friends or your mum.. nowadays you just can't segregate everyone!

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