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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?
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.]