Really depends on the person. For quite a lot of people, the reason a post or journal is friends only is to do with a specific person who has made a nusience of themselves, which I may or may not know about (I'm crap at keeping up with current news) so I tend not to mention a post to someone until I can check whether they are on the appropriate friends list.
I know several people (myself included) who use friends groups as sort of channels, for example ewtikins has a friends group for talking about where she's going busking on the London Underground that week and I have a group for posting up my occasional bits of creative writing and I can't imagine objecting to people being told about that. However, I do know one person who use a very careful and complex web of friends groups depending on how much they trust different people with different things, so I almost never talk about their posts with anyone, just in case.
I tend to assume that if a post is not marked "This is a custom group" in some way or other, then it's just a common-or-garden friends only post.
Oh, definitely. I think I should have added some sort of disclaimer along the lines of "If you don't already know from other sources (real life, email, etc.) that friends-only and restricted groups are used by this person for very specific purposes".
However, I do know one person who use a very careful and complex web of friends groups depending on how much they trust different people with different things
Do they believe that it works? Does it work? Do you think it works?
Do they believe that it works? Does it work? Do you think it works?
I guess it depends what you mean by 'work'. I get the impression that they are reasonably happy with using friends groups, or happy enough to post what they do post within their journal.
I know the biggest 'security breach' they've had was due to someone who was using someone elses login to get to their restricted posts.
It comes down to the old rule. If you don't want someone to see it, don't put it online.
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:18 am (UTC)I know several people (myself included) who use friends groups as sort of channels, for example
I tend to assume that if a post is not marked "This is a custom group" in some way or other, then it's just a common-or-garden friends only post.
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:59 am (UTC)Oh, definitely. I think I should have added some sort of disclaimer along the lines of "If you don't already know from other sources (real life, email, etc.) that friends-only and restricted groups are used by this person for very specific purposes".
However, I do know one person who use a very careful and complex web of friends groups depending on how much they trust different people with different things
Do they believe that it works? Does it work? Do you think it works?
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Date: 2003-09-23 09:57 am (UTC)I guess it depends what you mean by 'work'. I get the impression that they are reasonably happy with using friends groups, or happy enough to post what they do post within their journal.
I know the biggest 'security breach' they've had was due to someone who was using someone elses login to get to their restricted posts.
It comes down to the old rule. If you don't want someone to see it, don't put it online.