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
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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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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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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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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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