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Dec. 24th, 2018 15:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunartulipI don't really understand the local norms with regard to giving people access to one's stuff.
Or, like... there are some use cases I understand. I could understand an arrangement like "this is basically a private blog, only those invited need get to see the posts here"; and, simplifying on that, I see the appeal of something like "instead of having a main blog and a private one, just post the same stuff in both but make the latter access-restricted and the former not". That makes sense to me, as a use case, and in that context one's access-grantings presumably depend on who it is that one wants to see whatever private content one is posting.
But, as someone with no particular use for a private blog (and, for that matter, very little urge towards privacy in general, outside of the "keep the confidences of people who care more than I do" case), I'm not quite sure what local norms dictate I should do with my access permissions. Do I give access to nobody, because doing so would be kind of useless? Do I give access to everybody, because there's no reason not to and it signals openness? I have No Idea.
Does anyone else have thoughts on how to handle this?
Or, like... there are some use cases I understand. I could understand an arrangement like "this is basically a private blog, only those invited need get to see the posts here"; and, simplifying on that, I see the appeal of something like "instead of having a main blog and a private one, just post the same stuff in both but make the latter access-restricted and the former not". That makes sense to me, as a use case, and in that context one's access-grantings presumably depend on who it is that one wants to see whatever private content one is posting.
But, as someone with no particular use for a private blog (and, for that matter, very little urge towards privacy in general, outside of the "keep the confidences of people who care more than I do" case), I'm not quite sure what local norms dictate I should do with my access permissions. Do I give access to nobody, because doing so would be kind of useless? Do I give access to everybody, because there's no reason not to and it signals openness? I have No Idea.
Does anyone else have thoughts on how to handle this?
Old LJ Veteran here
Date: 2018-12-24 21:01 (UTC)Some entries you’ll make public, because why not; some you’d only want friends to see, and some you want only certain friends to see, and some you want no one to see.
It sounds like you’d seldom need to be so specific. Okay, then don’t worry about it! I believe your default setting is Public, so just go with it! But like a drop-down menu you never use, the capabilities are there if you wish.
Re: Old LJ Veteran here
Date: 2018-12-24 21:21 (UTC)Re: Old LJ Veteran here
Date: 2018-12-24 21:40 (UTC)Or the reverse, for that matter…
There is also a cut function, which screens selected portions of the entry from view on friends’s pages. [Far less confusing in practice than it perhaps sounds.]