Additional Post Privacy Options

[cahwyguy]

Title
Additional Post Privacy Options

Short, concise description of the idea
Have a setting for LJ and Facebook Friends Only

Full description of the ideaThe basic notion would be to expand upon the LJ Friends Only setting to have an additional setting that would add those listed as Facebook friends as well -- meaning that the only people that could

Comments

[cahwyguy]

Boy, this took a long time to post. I think I submitted this back in the days of the Facebook connect bru-ha-ha.

[boredinsomniac]

Yeah, sorry, I think I went "this looks complicated and it's late" a few times before I finally read it all the way through :)

[cahwyguy]

No problem (I actually submitted it later than I thought) -- its posting just took me by surprise :-)

[boredinsomniac]

I will strike when you LEAST EXPECT IT.

[azurelunatic]

I like the concept, but (perhaps inevitably) quibble about the specifics of the implementation

[cahwyguy]

The problem with your approach is that it is too static: if one's FB friends list changes, that wouldn't be propagated back into LJ. Just as with "Friends Only", which is dynamic enough to be "my friends today", not "my friends when I posted this", you would want a setting that is "whatever my FB friends list is as of the time of reading".

[azurelunatic]

You would want that. You've nicely identified the exact source of my twitchiness about having friends on another site treated as a security level. If I'm going to show my LJ entries to people, I want to have authorized those people on LiveJournal, not on another site, even if my account on the other site is never compromised.

I wouldn't be opposed to having the sites talk to each other, and regularly prompt me if I want to change a relationship somewhere else if I've changed it on one site, but I don't trust either Facebook or Twitter enough to give them the keys to my anything.

[cahwyguy]

You're misunderstanding things,then. If you choose LJ friends only, you get only the LJ friends. However, if you are using FB connect, and have your FB set up to have its posts be friends-only, it would be nice to be able to have your LJ posts visible to them without your having to change things *and* without having to make it fully public. Thus, if you could set up the post to be LJ and FB friends, that would solve the problem.

If you're twitchy about the FB friends, then don't use the setting.

[azurelunatic]

As far as visitors are concerned, changing the LOL PRIVACY GOAT page to be a little more inviting might actually do it -- instead of only offering links to other places, it could offer that if you have another account that does have access, you could log in, and include external accounts as a possibility.

[awry]

I personally would like the option to make everything to 'LJ users only' I have communities for LJ users only that I want to keep that way. I hate having to moderate the membership of them and clean through 14+ pages of members to remove people who aren't even using this site.