Strange, but apparently true (edited)

[pecunium]

Friendditto.

I've not heard of them before today.

Since I've no locked posts, I am not worried about them for me (though I can see where I might want to lock some posts, or filter them) I do have a couple of private posts, which ought not be affected, since I am not using this service.

But I hear things about it which I find offensive. Not crucial (since if I want to post something you've locked I can always paste it, this just makes it, so I hear, easier), but offensive.

I don't think it can go to the locked posts of friends, by way of the FOF reading list.

If it can, then I am past offended, because that, it seems, is an invasion of privacy.

So, as I 1: have no locked posts, and 2: have no way to know if any of you have chosen to use this, I won't ask you to take yourselves off my friends list. On the other hand, if I do start locking posts, and then see them talked about all over town. I'll be annoyed.

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I went and looked at them. The FAQ says they can't keep Friends Only posts. Since this seems to be the cause of so much of the angst, I wonder what the facts are. I see no reason, on the face of things, to doubt them. Then again, I am loathe to share my password with anyone.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, more likely to be honored by honorable people (as I'd re-phrase it). That's right up there with "Never publish in a fanzine anything you're not willing to hear read in Court". (Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote that after an extremely messy & vicious divorce/child-custody trial, many years ago.) Being old enough to recognize a Voracious Black Hole when I see one, I don't do an LJ -- just read (& sometimes comment on) a few written by friends, acquaintances, and linked LJers -- and I take a rather liberal view of "Intellectual Property Rights", but I really don't think it's honorable to post, in such a public-access archive, things that your "friends" believed they were communicating at some level of confidentiality. True, our friends probably ought to be aware of the fact that "The half-life of any juicy secret, in this microcosm, is somewhat less than five minutes", but exposing their indiscreet writings probably isn't a good way to teach them this.