I kept my LJ anonymous and secret for a long time. When everyone appeared I contemplated making some posts retrospectively restricted, but ultimately didn't, mainly through laziness. All I can really go on are my criteria for restricting posts which are: some TMI stuff is restricted to my "pregnant" and/or "girls" filters. If any SO of one of those readers wished to know, I wouldn't mind the info being passed on but my guess is that it wouldn't come up. Rants will be clearly marked and anyone that should not be told about them will be mentioned in the post. Other stuff is just "I don't want the world at large reading this, but anyone who I consider a friend is welcome to know and/or discuss it with others". This is a change from previously stated policy, now I have a paid account. ;-)
There is one situation in which I would agree that telling someone I have explicitly excluded what I posted is valid and acceptable, and that is if I appear to be ill or endangering smallclanger. His needs take priority over my privacy. From this I can formulate a rule for disseminating information from other people's LJs.
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Date: 2003-09-23 09:21 am (UTC)There is one situation in which I would agree that telling someone I have explicitly excluded what I posted is valid and acceptable, and that is if I appear to be ill or endangering