I'm not concerned that people will find my livejournal. I'm more (but not significantly) concerned that people will comment on locked entries and that the context of the locked entry will be discernible from the nature of the comment, posted elsewhere on twitter or FB.
Also, if you're the kind of person who thinks someone you don't know reading your lj is an attack, you should probably lock it down anyway.
I am most concerned that someone will say something in their comment on my flocked post that will reveal more about what is in my post than I am comfortable having posted to FB. So while it's only a couple of lines, the content of that couple of lines could be something I don't want shared publically.
Yes, nothing you post on the internet is secure, but I really don't want LJ to start making it EASY for people to spread around "private" information, either. I think it's a huge oversight for LJ to not put in an option such as "Do not let someone share comments on my flocked posts to LJ/Twitter."
I disabled the Pingback feature from the notification bar they provided at the top of the page. (GO LJ, actually NOTIFYING users of something they might want to address, one point!)
Hopefully this is enough action to correct any linking?
Or are we talking about two different things? (And boy, do I feel senile some days - this is the same thing, isn't it?)
Here's a post http://zvi.dreamwidth.org/637906.html that talks about both the FB/Tw thing, and also about pingbacks, which apparently contain some stuff that makes them super non-awesome: they will tell you when people have linked to your post in a locked post you can't read, and give you a clip of the text around the link.
I don't think this is much risk it itself, but similar concerns are why I deleted my old LJ and now have ZERO friendslocked content on LJ. If I'm not comfortable having it posted publicly, it doesn't go on the internet. That's how I roll, and I recommend the same to others. (Note, however, that I'm a published writer, albeit not a well-known one. My preference is partially based on the possibility that I might have a best seller or other high profile publication and have large numbers of strangers rummaging through my online stuff. Non-writers could make a different choice, but should still be aware of the real risk of being exposed
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Also, if you're the kind of person who thinks someone you don't know reading your lj is an attack, you should probably lock it down anyway.
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Yes, nothing you post on the internet is secure, but I really don't want LJ to start making it EASY for people to spread around "private" information, either. I think it's a huge oversight for LJ to not put in an option such as "Do not let someone share comments on my flocked posts to LJ/Twitter."
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Hopefully this is enough action to correct any linking?
Or are we talking about two different things?
(And boy, do I feel senile some days - this is the same thing, isn't it?)
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Thanks for the heads-up!
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