Friend-whatsit

[kyburg]

Never heard of it before today.

However. If anyone cares to remember, my first post went something along these lines:

Whoo-hoo, the first entry. Boy, won't some folks be shocked.

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

I've stuck pretty close to that.

Honest to the point of painful, yessir.

And no, I don't think secrets are cute. Never have.

So - if you use this service, are on my friends list and something leaks that you didn't want to - you got nobody else but the reflection in the mirror to blame.

Drive through....

Comments

[kuangning]

Meh. It's less a matter of something being leaked that might be embarrassing as -- I've posted contact info, yeah? And pictures. All friendslocked because I trust you but the world doesn't need to know. Details, such as they are, on the custody issue. Pictures of the kids. Are those hurtful to anyone who can't read them? Nope. But I don't want them on some third-party site either. I could stop making anything but public entries -- but then, I could also drop everyone on my friendslist and keep posting what I feel I need to. It's just not cool.

[yendi]

*nod* My sentiments exactly.

Also, anyone dumb enough to give their LJ password to another site doesn't deserve to be on my friends list.

[dwinghy.livejournal.com]

Well. While I totally agree that if you want something kept secret, DON'T TELL ANYBODY AND I DO MEAN ANYBODY, I think there's a reasonable amount of decorum one should expect from one's friends list. If I tell a group of 20 people (that's the number of my friendslist) something, I wouldn't expect it to end up as the front page headline of the local newspaper the next day. BUT, I don't tell anyone but my husband things I wouldn't want to get around, so it's not so much that I would be apalled to see my words on the front page as just surprised (slow news day?).
I do agree that it's foolish to expect anyone other than one's SO to keep anything secret, and the bigger one's flist gets, the more foolish that expectation becomes.

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

Which is why I don't talk about truly private things on the internet.

Not that I have any secrets to begin with, but eh.

I know everyone's gone home and moved on but...

[dwinghy.livejournal.com]

...just wanted to add to my earlier comment that while I don't think anyone should expect anything they write in a locked post to remain "secret", I also can't see any reason beyond sheer maliciousness that someone on one's flist would post a locked post onto a public site like that. Presumably so long as we all keep malicious assholes off our flists, we should be safe from being "dittoed", but I guess sometimes you don't know one until it's too late.

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

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